Hundreds of thousands of young people rally in Australia, Afghanistan, South Africa, Germany, the U.S. and many other countries to demand that leaders headed to a U.N. summit take action now on climate change.
NEW YORK — A wave of climate change protests swept across the globe Friday, with hundreds of thousands of young people sending a message to leaders headed for a U.N. summit: The warming world can’t wait for action.
“Basically our earth is dying and if we don’t do something about it, we die,” said A.J. Conermann, a 15-year old sophomore. “I want to grow up. I want to have a future.” “They have this opportunity to do something, and they should take that,” she said in the interview. “And otherwise, they should feel ashamed.”
But U.S. President Donald Trump subsequently announced that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the agreement, which he said benefited other nations at the expense of American businesses and taxpayers. Hundreds of rallies took place across Europe, including in the Czech Republic, Germany, Britain and Poland, which is still widely coal-reliant and where many middle schools gave students the day off to enable them to participate in the rallies in Warsaw and other cities.
In Helsinki, the Finnish capital, a man dressed as Santa Claus stood outside parliament holding a sign: “My house is on fire, my reindeer can’t swim.”
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