Students across the world today have left their schoolroom and taken to the street to protest their regime ’ inaction when it comes tothe climate crisis , ahead of the United NationsClimate Action Summitkicking off in New York on September 23 . Millions of children and adults , company and potbelly , are expected to take part in the protest around the world .
So far 300,000 hoi polloi are protesting on the streets in Australia . Students in Thailand exhibit for two hours in Bangkok before staging a die - in at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment . protest have taken property in multiple cities in India , Japan , Indonesia , the Philippines , Myanmar , Singapore , and South Korea .
Protests are also kicking off in Europe with multiple marches and event planned in capital letter and major city , like London , Paris , Berlin , and Madrid . This evening in New York , Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is expected to speak about the week of strikes , which will conclude next week with more upshot happening worldwide .
The # WeekForFuture coincides with theUN summit , the destination of which is to quicken the necessary of theParis Agreement , improve atmosphere quality , and create climate - bouncy wellness systems .
The demands of this orbicular rap are both simple and ambitious : an terminal to the geezerhood of fossil fuels and climate judge for everyone . The first item underscore how all important it is to terminate our trust on fossil fuels and move onto green energy sources such as solar , current of air , and atomic , which are key to getting greenhouse emissions under control .
The second destination is about the human cost of this crisis . Millions of people are already experiencing the withering impact of the mood crisis . The Red Cross has releaseda reportrevealing that 108 million multitude are in motivation of humanitarian aid every year . The routine will almost double over the next decade . A study published in the journalGeoHealthshows that in the US in 2012 ( the year Hurricane Sandy hit ) there were 917 dying and 20,568 hospitalizations due to clime modification - related events , at a cost of $ 10 billion . Given that the crisis is both worsening and accelerating , this data is very worrying .
The attention is on governance to treat this global crisis as the exigency that it is . For them to put across laws and policies that ease step-down of emissions at a citizen point , but more importantly that the militaries and large corp that are principally responsible for the emission are taken to chore on reduce CO2dramatically . The Pentagon , for example , producesmore CO2emissions than several European nation , and a2017 reportfound that just 100 corporation were responsible for 71 percent of all globular greenhouse emissions .
It may be gentle todismiss the protestation of one girl , but hopefully , it will a flock harder to overwhelm out the voices of the world if it speaks as one .
