{"id":25602,"date":"2019-09-12T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=25602"},"modified":"2019-09-12T09:58:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:58:54","slug":"youth-ask-public-to-join-the-global-climate-strike-september-20-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2019\/09\/youth-ask-public-to-join-the-global-climate-strike-september-20-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Ask Public to Join the Global Climate Strike September 20-27"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(Beyond Pesticides,\u00a0<\/em>September 12, 2019)\u00a0This September, adults will join in a global climate strike<\/a> spurred by the Fridays for Future\u00a0<\/em>school climate strike movement.<\/p>\n

Environmentalists around the world are galvanizing the public<\/a> to participate in youth-led disruption in order to bring attention to the climate crisis. U.S. strike demands include a Green New Deal, respect for indigenous land and sovereignty, environmental justice, protecting biodiversity, and sustainable agriculture. The strike will kick off on Friday, September 20\u00a0and actions will continue until the next Friday, September 27.<\/p>\n

Fridays for Future<\/em> started when then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg<\/a> began striking in 2018 in front of the Riksdag \u2013 the Swedish parliament. She was inspired by U.S. teens who refused to go back to school and instead organized a massive national protest<\/a> for gun control after the Parkland, Florida shooting. Ms. Thunberg gained publicity and captured a global audience with her clear voice and piercing castigation of adults in power who, \u201care sh–ting on my future.\u201d Ms. Thunberg has, among other diagnoses, Asperger Syndrome. She attributes her ability to articulate the climate crisis to her capacity to think differently and see things in \u201cblack and white.\u201d In an interview with TIME Magazine<\/a>, she stated, \u201cThe climate crisis is, in some ways, black and white. Either we stop the emissions or we don\u2019t, either we prevent setting off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control or we don\u2019t.\u201d Fridays for Future<\/em> has become a weekly, international phenomenon. Ms. Thunberg was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>\u00a0this year.<\/p>\n

In May of 2019, Ms. Thunberg and other activists issued a request for adults<\/a> to join on September 20. \u201cWe feel a lot of adults haven\u2019t quite understood that we young people won\u2019t hold off the climate crisis ourselves. Sorry if this is inconvenient for you. But this is not a single-generation job. It\u2019s humanity\u2019s job,\u201d they stated, \u201cSo this is our invitation. Starting on Friday 20 September we will kick-start a week of climate action with a worldwide strike for the climate. We\u2019re asking adults to step up alongside us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. Youth Climate Strike<\/a>, a coalition of eight national youth-led climate groups, recently released their demands. In full, they are:<\/p>\n