STOCKHOLM: Hundreds of thousands of young people skipped school across the globe on Friday to march through the streets for an international day of student protests aimed at pushing world leaders into action on climate change.
In Stockholm, Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg who inspired the protests, warned that time was running out."We are living through an existential crisis that has been ignored for decades and if we do not act now it may be too late," the 16-year-old told Swedish public television station SVT. "Most of us are 16-17 and we're going to turn 18 soon ... As voters we will show we care about climate change. If you can't give us that, you will not get our votes."
Youngsters stand on the Queen Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace as they take part in a student climate protest in London on Mar 15, 2019. And Australia's Education Minister Dan Tehan said striking was"not something that we should encourage."
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