Youth Strike For The Planet

On September 20, youth around the world went on strike, skipping school to march and demonstrate, demanding that adults start acting like grownups and take meaningful action to deal with the climate crisis. Among them were my youngest daughter and some of her friends.

As a 10-year-old, my daughter only recently learned about the climate crisis. Last summer, she accompanied me on two interviews with local youth climate activists. While I got information for my articles about Fridays For Future and other local groups, she learned about climate change as a problem that kids are active in solving.

In anticipation of the Global Climate Strike, she prepared a presentation for her classmates. I thought it was pretty good. I was especially impressed that she did not piggyback on the information from the interviews she heard, but built her powerpoint on her own research. So I thought I’d share it here.

Fridays For Future Presentation