Since 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived by solar-powered sailboat on Aug. 28, she has taken the U.S. by storm. She and others in her “Fridays for Future” movement protested climate inaction in front of the United Nations; marched by the White House; testified in a joint congressional hearing on the climate crisis; and shamed U.N. leaders in a moving speech at its Climate Action Summit. Perhaps most notably, she and many other young people led the Sept. 20 Global Climate Strike, which mobilized millions of people worldwide in street protests about the failure to reduce carbon emissions.
Who is involved in this youth climate movement? Are they simply marching, or are they politically engaged more generally? Here’s what I found. CONT.
Dana R. Fisher (U. of Maryland), Monkey Cage