'Our Generation Will Suffer': Tens of Thousands of Students From 60+ UK Communities Join Climate Strike
November 13, 2019 | News | No Comments
Tens of thousands of students from more than 60 communities across the United Kingdom skipped class on Friday to join the global youth-led #schoolstrike4climate, calling on world leaders to take bolder steps to eradicate fossil fuels and combat the climate crisis.
“It’s sort of scary to think about that when I’m older there might not be a North Pole or maybe no rainforest or anything.”
—11-year-old striker
Speaking to Sky News in London’s Parliament Square on Friday, 12-year-old Theo said he is striking “because there are people in that building over there, going in week in and week out, and completely declining the fact that our world is dying out.”
Theo added that he thinks U.K. legislators, who are failing to take necessary steps to address the crisis, “are completely obsessed…with money” and “are completely disregarding…the world.”
Pointing to rising temperatures and visible changes in the global climate, Theo’s 11-year-old friend said he joined the strike because “it’s sort of scary to think about that when I’m older there might not be a North Pole or maybe no rainforest or anything.”
The striking students carried signs that warned “our generation will suffer,” and asked, “the climate is changing, why aren’t we?” Chants across the country ranged from “whose streets, our streets,” and “we want change,” to “fuck Theresa May”—the Tory prime minister who criticized the demonstrations via a spokesperson.
Some students spontaneously blocked Downing Street—which houses the prime minister’s residence and office—and police even began arresting some strikers, according to posts on social media by the environmental group Extinction Rebellion and other observers:
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