Students in Sydney Australia walking out of class and taking to the streets.
Friday March 15 is the next day of action
being called by International Student groups.
If you look HERE, you will see an outline of this explosive youth movement that is sweeping Europe and soon the US in only the last 6 months. It started with Greta the Spark and is igniting in countries around the world. Yes, adults in the room! Will you please wake up and do something about how you are burning down the house. For the politicians who are getting money from the oil and gas industry, will you just stop it. US is threatening to invade Venezuela, in such hypocrisy to this border wall fixation, and as the National Insecurity Director John Bolton admits, we need Maduro to go so that US corporations can get to the massive oil reserves in that country. The addiction to fossil burning fuels is so out of control that the rulers continue on a desperate path to get their next fix.
As these brilliant young people are just restating what the scientists are saying, we are on an exponentially dire crisis of increase in global temps, as the permafrost softens in the poles, releasing the most harmful of greenhouse gases, methane.
Why should the kids have to be sacked with the weight of this problem?
Yes, like the Prime Minister of Australia said, these kids should be in school. But their point is so important; why should we be in school when the very ecosystem of this planet that supports our future is collapsing before our very eyes and nothing of real import is being done about it.
To walk out of school hurts the school systems because they don’t get money for lack of a student’s attendance. May the schools not blame students but instead put pressure on their teacher unions and local school boards to put pressure on their higher ups to basically do one thing; put all our focus on implementing a Green New Deal. A plan that not only greatly reduces greenhouse gases, but it shifts the economic system that perpetuates the dependence on the current unsustainable energy systems.
For you young people; What do you want to say to the powers that be who are too comfortable in their well padded lives to make substantial change? And, what is it in you that not only wants to survive, but wants to thrive as you grow into the unlimited possibilities of your young adulthood? The expression of your passion, the power of your clear desire to live is one of the greatest natural resources that we have. Say it, yell it, dance it, write it, sing it!
We are hearing you.
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