This week, the article I read was about climate change, and students striking school to stop it. This article was talking about how students all around the world are organizing school strikes, because they want the government and adults in power to pay attention to global warming. The number of organized strikes is continuing to increase. A large number of these strikes have been inspired by Greta Thunberg. In 2019, there was a plan to have a coordinated world wide strike on March 15. Over five hundred and ninety-six schools participated, across over sixty-four different countries. In Australia, the amount of bush fires continues to rise. Milou Albrecht, a co-leader of the strikes in Australia, was motivated to change global warming when she was at a friends house and a bush fire destroyed it. The article was also stating that the reason adults aren’t making any changes with climate change is because they will all be dead by the time global warming is at it’s worst. They don’t see the real threat that global warming poses.
I chose this article because at my old school, my friend organized a school strike for global warming. Not a lot of people went. Even though the strike was small, it still got the message across to the school. When I saw this article, I was interested and wanted to know more. The article is important for society because more people should be aware of the dangers of global warming. The school strikes will continue to spread and enlarge. When they are large enough, the people in power will start to pay more attention to the problem. Fires, hurricanes, floods, blizzards, etc. All of these will worsen if people continue to ignore global warming. This is why these student strikes are so important.
Which areas will get hit the hardest by global warming? Why? which area will get the least amount of damage?
Excellent post Savannah! I believe change will come when young people such as those you mention and your friend at school take a stand. I believe the people who do not believe have a vested interest in not changing because they make money or it will cost too much money for them to change. Small steps can help with global warming so in the meantime we can all try to little things to make big change:)