BREAKING NEWS ON "WORLDWIDE CLIMATE STRIKES"

[Jeffersons Ghost]

If your co-worker or classmate isn't around today, it may not be because they're getting an early jump on the weekend. They could be on strike. Global climate strikes are taking place today all over the world, with people walking out of workplaces and classrooms to demand action to address the climate crisis. It's expected to be the biggest day of climate demonstrations in history.

Here's what the climate strike looks like in India
19 min ago

Students protest on the Pacific islands that are most at risk in the climate crisis
46 min ago

Students rally across the UK: "The kids are giving us a political lesson"
1 hr 2 min ago

Indian children send message to leaders
1 hr 13 min ago

Thousands pack streets in cities across Europe
1 hr 24 min ago

"I'm here because leaders aren't doing enough"
1 hr 52 min ago

Protests are in full swing in Germany
2 hr 6 min ago

Young people offer urgent moral clarity to do-nothing adults
3 hr 2 min ago

Huge crowds gather in Australia as part of the strikes
3 hr 53 min ago

Europe wakes up and heads to the climate strikes
4 hr 20 min ago

Students strike in India, where millions are running out of water because of climate change
4 hr 50 min ago

Employees from Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are striking too
5 hr 3 min ago

Indonesia activists march while the country's forests burn
5 hr 27 min ago

Extinction Rebellion activists rally in Hong Kong
5 hr 55 min ago

South Korean activists use flashing lights to spell out "SOS" in Morse code
6 hr 26 min ago

Kids are marching for climate action in Bangkok
6 hr 52 min ago

Climate march draws more than 100,000 people in Australia
7 hr 5 min ago

Protesters are rallying across the world. Here's what they want.
7 hr 21 min ago
From CNN's Dakin Andone

The organizers of today's climate strike say the crisis will most directly affect young people. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be an issue on everyone's minds. They want allies.

What they want: Strikers are also demanding "climate justice" to cast the climate crisis as not just an environmental issue, but also an ethical obligation.

The hope is the strikes will show world leaders that it's not just young people who want climate change to be addressed.

"September's climate strikes will kickstart a huge wave of action and renewed ambition all over the world," organizers say.

Specific information on each headline here:
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/global-climate-strike-2019/index.html?utm_source=CNN+Five+Things&utm_campaign=cb780e5b0e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_20_08_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6da287d761-cb780e5b0e-104928233

[riversedge]

1. msnbc just did a great segment on this.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. Meanwhile, here's today's environmental news in the USA:

According to the New York Times: U.S. seeks to penalize San Francisco: President Trump said the city would be issued a notice of environmental violation because of its homelessness problem, citing used needles that were ending up in the ocean.

[Loki Liesmith]

3. Good luck to the protestors

[Jeffersons Ghost]

22. Frankly, I should be organizing a protest. But instead...

Like many of us, I have succumbed to the new "opiates of the masses," online writing and television viewing.

Writing scathing OPs about Teflon Don or reporting on Climate Change, makes me feel better; but does it really help resolve the problems?

These young protesters are making news, instead of reading, watching or reporting important events.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. it's enough to give hope

We are in a gigantic experiment which gambles our very existence on the outcome.

Scientists have been warning us for decades. Some people think it's like predicting rain or snow; it's not. There will be surprises.

I just hope the polar bears, elephants, whales, and the Amazon rain forest outlive me.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

23. Be careful what you wish for; the Amazon is nearly dead

And, although I'm a senior, I will see more devastation from Climate Change.

Right now, we are living during a mass extinction, which surpasses the Chicxulub Event, when most dinosaur species vanished.

[Phoenix61]

5. Headed to one in 30. nt

[Jeffersons Ghost]

28. good for you! A real hero.

Anyone can write report protests online; but people who take definitive action - like you - are special.

[ffr]

6. Bird's-eye view in Germany

Link to tweet

[ancianita]

7. ...

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[usaf-vet]

8. Students in Ashland Wisconsin are participating "Worldwide Climate Strikes"

An in-school strike and a local parade along the main street is planned.

Ashland Wisconsin is located at the top of the state on Lake Superior's Chequamegon Bay.

Ashland and Bayfield Counties are known Democratic strongholds.

[appalachiablue]

9. Students Around The World Go On Climate Strike, FFF

'Fridays For Future' FFF.

[calimary]

10. And the children shall lead.

Because they’re smart enough to realize that THEY are the primary stakeholders.

Thank God they’re taking the initiative!

[OxQQme]

11. Calimary, you can add women to the leaders.

As in, the women and children will lead us.

[calimary]

15. We certainly can!

Ironically enough, isn’t that what they say when the boat’s sinking? “Women and children first.”

That’s who will lead America to its survival.

[malaise]

12. More here

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/planet-thousands-join-global-climate-strike-asia-190920040636503.html

[renate]

14. when Al Jazeera America went off the air, I forgot they still exist online!

It broke my heart when they went away--I loved their stories from around the world--so thank you very much for this reminder!

[maryellen99]

13. I bet she wins the Nobel Peace Prize nt

[appalachiablue]

16. CBS NEWS is also covering the global climate strike today w Live Updates

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142370431

[elocs]

17. What's something that kids cannot do? Vote, and politicians do not fear nonvoters.

So although it looks impressive, what will it really accomplish?
I remember the first Earth Day 50 years ago next year and had that worked as it should would we be where we're at now?

We might moderate global climate change, I doubt it, but we should spend as much time and energy in preparing to deal with its negative consequences rather than waiting until the wolf is at the door and it's too late although I doubt that will happen either.

[dustyscamp]

18. Meanwhile outside Area 51 chuds are chanting save the aliens and taking selfies for the memes

[Jeffersons Ghost]

20. I don't see the correlation. Have you ever heard of Freepers?

I wonder if you've ever heard of Freepers, with so few response at DU, dustyscamp

[dustyscamp]

21. I'm looking at all these young people and admiring what they are doing to fight climate change

But then on the otherside there is this other group who joking around for something that isn't real. It's sad that some people don't give a shit about what will happen to our world and future.

Link to tweet

[roamer65]

19. The problem protesting the symptom.

The only way to stop climate change is population reduction.

[triron]

24. Where are the strikes in the good ol Trump USA?

[bdamomma]

25. anyone watching

Chris Hayes? People leaving Guatemala due to climate changes. Fuck Trump. People are starving due to climate change.

[virgogal]

26. My grandson vacationed in Guatamala early this summer,sent beautiful pics.

[bdamomma]

27. K&R

nt