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Kids From At Least 112 Countries, Including the US, Go on Strike To Protest Climate Change

Posted by msmash on from the better-future dept.

It started 29 weeks ago when 16-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg began skipping school on Fridays to protest climate change by standing outside of her nation's parliament building. Today, kids from more than 110 countries, including the United States, are following Thunberg's lead and will play hooky from classes for something they think is ultimately more important: preventing the warming of their planet. Live updates, from The Guardian. Further reading: Thousands of scientists are backing the kids striking for climate change.

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  1. Re:Hell, yes! by SirSlud · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Policies that limit pollution. What are you afraid of, economic catastrophe? Mommy telling you what to do?

    And "heard somewhere?" rather than policy that basically every informed expert on the planet agrees must be undertaken but businesses, shockingly, do not want? Take your disingenuous shit somewhere else.

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