Global Climate Strike!

 

This week will be historic. In over 150 countries, people are stepping up to support young climate strikers and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels. The climate crisis won’t wait, so neither will we.  Those are the first sentences in the web page https://globalclimatestrike.net/  and it´s worth watching the presentation video too!

What do you think after watching the video? Do you agree? Should students and young people in general be the leaders of this movement, following the example of Greta Thunberg? And what can you personally do about it?

For starters, let´s be really pessimistic and imagine a bleak, dark future with our planet on the verge of being destroyed in 2050, as the U.N. has already warned.  Imagine you are in your forties and are telling your children about the wonderful planet you inhabited when you were a teenager. Write three sentences you can tell your children to explain what you could do when you were a teenager ( and you can´t do now because of enviromental problems). 

Example: when I was a teenager, we used to swim in the sea.

Watch this video before thinking about the senteces to get some inspiration. 

Now let´s try to be optimistic! We know most depends on our world leaders ,but think of a list of things you could do ( or convince your parents to do at home) and share it with the rest of your classmates.