Sept. 26, 2019
By Bill McCann
The placards held high by the marching teenagers during the global climate strike on Friday said it all. One sign lamented: “You’ll Die of Old Age, We’ll Die of Climate Change.” Another reminded us: “There is No Planet B.” A third warned: “You Are Destroying our Future.”
Young people and supportive adults marched peacefully by the millions worldwide on Friday to demand that their governments immediately address the climate crisis engulfing our planet. It was the third global climate strike organized by young activists this year. A 16-year-old Swedish activist, Greta Thunberg, inspired the strikes. She raised global awareness by protesting last year outside the Swedish Parliament to demand more aggressive action to protect the Earth from overheating.
Watching videos of throngs of young marchers demanding a better future took me back to the first Earth Day in April 1970 when millions of students participated in environmental events nationwide. They were inspired in part by a giant oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif.; a pall of pollutants hanging over many U.S. cities; and Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring.”
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