Students Walk Out to Protest Climate Inaction
Varshini Prakash, executive director and a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, a grassroots movement that is demanding immediate action from the United States Congress to address the climate change crisis, talks about the student climate strike, organized to protest inaction around climate change. Students Alexandria Villaseñor, Fridays for Future school striker in solidarity with Greta Thunberg and organizer for the global strikes that Fridays For Future calls for, Olivia Wohlgemouth, Climate Strike NY organizer at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts, and Spencer Berg, Climate Strike Organizer at ICE (Institute for Collaborate Education), join the conversation.
"I want adults to hear that we are the younger generation that in the coming years is going to be voting in elections," says student climate activist, Olivia Wohlgemouth. "This is pressing to us and we are not backing down and we will keep fighting until they are on our side."
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"I think that we will be heard once they finally start put policies and laws in place that will keep us below 1.5 degrees Celsius. They may be paying attention but unless they act on climate change then we haven’t been heard efficiently," says student activist @AlexandriaV2005.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 18, 2019
"These young folks especially in the United States are making some pretty clear demands, asking for our government to declare a national emergency on climate, asking for Congress to support and back a Green New Deal." 2/2 https://t.co/W5XwVuxEHz
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 18, 2019
