Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Guardian has published an open letter from the leadership of the student climate change strikers.
We, the young, are deeply concerned about our future. Humanity is currently causing the sixth mass extinction of species and the global climate system is at the brink of a catastrophic crisis. Its devastating impacts are already felt by millions of people around the globe. Yet we are far from reaching the goals of the Paris agreement.
Young people make up more than half of the global population. Our generation grew up with the climate crisis and we will have to deal with it for the rest of our lives. Despite that fact, most of us are not included in the local and global decision-making process. We are the voiceless future of humanity.
We will no longer accept this injustice. We demand justice for all past, current and future victims of the climate crisis, and so we are rising up. Thousands of us have taken to the streets in the past weeks all around the world. Now we will make our voices heard. On 15 March, we will protest on every continent.
We finally need to treat the climate crisis as a crisis. It is the biggest threat in human history and we will not accept the world’s decision-makers’ inaction that threatens our entire civilisation. We will not accept a life in fear and devastation. We have the right to live our dreams and hopes. Climate change is already happening. People did die, are dying and will die because of it, but we can and will stop this madness.
We, the young, have started to move. We are going to change the fate of humanity, whether you like it or not. United we will rise until we see climate justice. We demand the world’s decision-makers take responsibility and solve this crisis.
You have failed us in the past. If you continue failing us in the future, we, the young people, will make change happen by ourselves. The youth of this world has started to move and we will not rest again.
The global coordination group of the youth-led climate strike
What do the school strikers plan to do to “make change happen”? I guess if they knew, they wouldn’t still be demanding their parents sort out their lives.
via Watts Up With That?
March 2, 2019 at 04:08AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 
You the children,
You make up half the global population, but you are dependent upon maybe half of the other half for everything that you take for granted and selfishly believe are your rights; the food on your plates, the roof over your heads; your education, your safety and security, the entertainment and fashion trifles you believe you ‘need’, and the pocket-money you believe you are ‘entitled’ to.
Your generation grew up with no real problems to deal with and so you’ve hitched your slacktivist ‘likes’ and ‘hash-tags’ to an imaginary crisis to gratify your egotistical need to belonging to a fashionable cause. At no personal risk or effort on your part.
There is a very good reason you are not included in global decision making; in the innocence of youth you are naive and impressionable and you haven’t learned to tell the difference between sh!t and Shinola. You have made no contribution to the society that protects and nourishes you; therefore you have not earned the right to decide its fate.
People are dying right now because of policy pretending to ‘solve’ the imaginary ‘climate crisis’. By ‘starting to move’ in support of policies that threaten our entire civilisation, you are tacitly culpable for their premature deaths. How many likes do you expect to score on Facebook for man-slaughter?
Now shut-up your petulant, puerile whining and go back to school before a responsible grown-up puts your over their knee and gives you a spanking you cheeky spoiled brats.
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