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Kids From At Least 112 Countries, Including the US, Go on Strike To Protest Climate Change
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.
Someone told these kids a story about the future and they believed it. Childrens' belief in stories about the future is not a reason to do anything one way or another.
People should stop pretending they know the future. They don’t.
I like to get my science from papers and reports, not emotion-provoking film documentaries. If you actually want to understand climate change, start here (warning: pdf).
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Yeah, economic catastrophe... like 2008? You don't *like* lots of new jobs being created in renewable energy... as opposed to, say, coal[1]?
And what do you think the economy's going to do, when bad weather screws the US heartland, and there are worldwide food shortages[2]?
Or maybe those climate changes, like overuse of water and drought are some of what's causing conflict around the globe, and mass migration?[3]
Gee, think of all the folks who'll lose their job in the buggy whip factories.
1. 1972, the coal industry employed about 780,000 miners; coal output rose until about 15 years ago... but employs about 78,000 as of 5-10 years ago, due to strip mining and mountaintop removal.
2. I don't suppose you know about the food riots in Mexico and Central America, when too much of US corn production was diverted to ethanol, and there were shortages for bread and tortillas.
3. Do you have any clue about how major subsurface water, in the Central Valley of California, in the midwest, are being played out, not refilling, because of current weather, location, and agribusiness techniques?