A manifesto for tackling the climate change crisis | UK Student Climate Network
by Guardian Staff from on (#4B429)
As thousands of pupils strike over the catastrophe facing the planet, we demand a state of emergency be called
We're the UK Student Climate Network. We're young, we're students and we're calling for change. Our movement started in February when tens of thousands of young people took to the streets in towns and cities around Britain, in an unprecedented emergence of a youth climate justice movement.
We've joined a movement that's spreading rapidly across the world, catalysed by the actions of one individual in taking a stand in August last year. Greta Thunberg may have been the spark, but we're the wildfire and we're fuelled by the necessity for action.
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