School pupils call for radical climate action in UK-wide strike
by Matthew Taylor, Sandra Laville , Amy Walker , Popp from Environment | The Guardian on (#496C2)
Thousands of young people walk out of lessons in protest at political inaction over crisis
Thousands of schoolchildren and young people have walked out of classes to join a UK-wide climate strike amid growing anger at the failure of politicians to tackle the escalating ecological crisis.
Organisers said more than 10,000 young people in at least 60 towns and cities from the Scottish Highlands to Cornwall joined the strike, defying threats of detention to voice their frustration at the older generation's inaction on the environmental impact of climate change.
Continue reading...