By Sammie Jones-
Students over 1,000 cities around the world have gathered to protest against the world’s governments’ failure to act on global warming.
The coordinated ‘school strike’ inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who began holding demonstrations outside the Swedish parliament last year has gone world wide. Thousands of school pupils worldwide skipped their classes for a day of protest against climate change. The teenage activist, whose initiative sparked the protests has received global acclaim .
The 16-year-old has already been nominated for the Nobel peace prize for climate change by three Norwegian MPs.
India, South Korea, Australia and France are among the countries where teenagers are already on strike. In Ireland, thousands of students joined the protests in 37 locations
The day of action is expected to embrace about 100 countries. They are inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who protests weekly outside Sweden’s parliament.
Scientists say tougher measures are needed to cut global warming. Students want their governments to take real practical steps to tackle climate change , instead of leaving the world’s climate to continue to get uncontrollably warmer. The internationally co-ordinated youth protests was promoted through posts on Twitter and other social media
The Paris climate agreement of 2017 committed nearly 200 countries to keeping global temperatures “well below” 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and to striving for a maximum of 1.5C. The world’s governments are doing next to nothing about it, whilst many disinterested inhabitants of the world, especially in cold countries, are only too happy to see the world a lot warmer, without any concern for what is causing it.
Global warming has become a serious world wide phenomenon that is making almost every part of the world much warmer than past times. Friday’s global rallies were one of the biggest ever coordinated international actions against climate change. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, last January in Switzerland, the 16-year-old told top executives and politicians that “on climate change, we have to acknowledge that we have failed”.. Friday’s protests are taking place in about 100 countries, from New Zealand to the United States. Scientists have backed the protests, with thousands signing petitions in support of the students in Britain, Finland and Germany.
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