B.C. students join global school walkout for climate action

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B.C. students join global strike for climate action

Several student-led climate change rallies are being held around B.C. Friday, as part of a global school walkout inspired by Swedish student Greta Thunberg.

The students join thousands of schoolchildren around the world, who are calling on leaders to take tougher action on climate change. The global strike for climate action is taking place in countries all over the world, including more than 55 cities and towns across Canada, according to the organizer of the Vancouver event Sustainabiliteens.

“Imagine being a child and suddenly realizing your prospects in life have been potentially irreversibly compromised by the adult world’s refusal to take action on the climate crisis,” said Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands. “What would you do?”

 

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When your life’s purpose is resolving climate change by skipping school, writing signs with poor spelling/grammar, and helping 0% to achieve a solution.

It's too bad they don't put this much energy into stopping 5G coming, it will not only kill the environment but humans as well. Millimeter waves used my the military for crowd control, coming to a pole outside your house very soon. TSA scanners use this frequency.

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