by Kathie MM
The kids have it right! I’m talking about Greta Thunberg (founder of Fridays for Future ) , and about Jamie Margolin (co-founder of Zero Hour) and about Victoria Barrett (Alliance for Climate Change Education Fellow), plus thousands of other young people who have the courage to recognize the damage being done to the planet and speak out, act out.
Their parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles—and you—should do the same. Speak out, act out.
Yesterday, at a joint hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy, and the Environment and the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg submitted a recent, dramatic United Nations report providing a science-based warning on global warming. You can read it here.
So, what to do?
- Support the Climate Strike activities today! Check here for events in your area.
- Learn about the significant contribution of the American military to the climate crisis.
- Contact your Congressmen and women. Ask them to be as brave as the young climate activists and a) support efforts to stop climate change, and b) oppose war and other militaristic activities that harm both people and planet.
Pegean says: Don’t just be a spectator watching the world from your window (or the TV!). Act! The kids are giving you lots of great examples of ways you, too, can do good.