Australia’s youth have turned out in large groups today, taking a few hours to protest the Australian Government’s inaction on climate change.
These children, who will suffer the consequences of human-made global warming caused by the generations before them, are expressing their discontent with the Government’s lack of climate change and environment policy.
“We do not support our schools being turned into parliaments,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said earlier this week. “What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.”
But following the United Nation’s report on Climate Change, released last month on the seriously dire predictions about our planet’s future, students around Australia decided to walk out of their classrooms and demanded action by the Government.
They turned up in their thousands, and chanted in unison: “ScoMo sucks”.
Enjoy these powerful and inspirational images of these incredible kids doing amazing things for this country and, more importantly, for the planet.
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I'm joining the kids on Friday. Reason I found this is that I was looking for motivation for my placard.
Join the global climate strike, strike for our kids future.
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Some adults think a particular issue is so important to them that they goad children into trading some of their education in for a protest. Obviously a few days off is going to have a minor to insignificant impact on their education but similarly their attendance in a protest is going to add a minor to insignificant contribution to the debate.
No matter how important the activity is to the adult with responsibility of the child, I think the greatest impact of the children skipping school to attend non-educational activities is to lesson the importance of education in the child's mind. Maintaining a passion for learning that is so valuable as an adult is so much harder if you are convinced education is a waste of time.
if you want to advance the argument that children knowing how to protest is important, I would suggest protesting is not a difficult skill to learn and certainly can be squeezed alongside a trade or university course once they are an adult making their own decisions. .