"Skipping School To Protest Climate Change" -NPR's Jeff Brady, March 14th, 2019
Article Summary by Milana Baldizzi
NPR's Jeff Brady covers an event recently dubbed by organizers as "U.S Youth Climate Strike". The U.S Youth Climate Strike is a coalition founded by students who collaborated together to create a movement that protests and calls for action against climate change. These students recognized the global problem we face, and even further encouraged by Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenager that delivered a powerful speech on climate change at the United Nations climate summit in December, put together a movement that will call politicians and lawmakers into action. Their platform includes a call for Congress to pass Green New Deal. This measure is aimed at furthering the transition to carbon-free energy and to spread wealth more evenly in the economy. The Green New Deal and the movement have brought many politicians' opinions upfront. Some Democratic presidential candidates have come out as supportive, while others, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have downplayed the movement. Many of the opposition claim that the Green New Deal is not realistic. All the while, youth protestors gather together to paint signs, organize, and further prepare for the protest. Though some may see as school striking as extreme and unnecessary, these youth protesters argue that this is the action that must be taken in order for politicians and lawmakers to take issues like climate change seriously. If this strike does not bring forth the action that is required, another one is being planned for May.