In 60 towns and cities across the UK students a planning a schools walkout to protest the lack of action on Climate Change.
Once again it is the youth who are being responsible while their supposedly ‘responsible’ elders are languishing. While report after report comes out about the catastrophe affecting the environment as a direct result of the actions of mankind the politicians obfuscate and sit on their hands.
We are staring at a future of mass extinctions, the loss of all insects, the collapse of complex food webs and global warming that would put most of our cities and agricultural land under water. What are our elders doing? They are ignoring it.
Thank heavens for youth. They are the ones that are going to be inheriting the mess we’ve made of the world. Our short-term greed is destroying the planet. We are beset by huge problems of our own making:
Overpopulation
Species extinction
Habitat destruction
Pollution
Global warming
War
Mass poverty
Mass migration
What are the current political leaders doing about it? Sweet Fuck All!!
Thank heavens for the kids! At least they are fighting for the future! More power to them!!
Opher’s World – gives them its support!!
The world’s worth fighting for!! More power to the Youth of today!!
I’ve been noticing many instances recently where it is our young people who are making their voices heard for good causes. They make me optimistic for the future of our world. More power to them indeed!
Yes indeed. They are full of idealism and moral outrage. They are intelligent, articulate, knowledgeable and willing to protest and make a stand. I find that admirable. It fills me with hope.
Bless ’em! We should encourage them for all we’re worth – with their example, dust off some of those 1960s values and remember the damage inflicted in the 1980s!
Too true!! I hope they continue to show the passion to rebel against things that need rebelling on.
PS Did my own response to this on https://wordpress.com/view/davekingsbury.wordpress.com
Just accessed it Dave – a great one!
Cheers, Opher, thanks!
You’re welcome.
Thank you for this post! I really appreciated it! I wrote an article on my blog regarding the importance of these youth protests. If you could check it out and let me know what you think that would be great!
I’ll try and take a look. All the best – Opher