The generation with the most to lose from continued inaction on climate change is stepping forward with bold demands for the world to act with urgency. And this is exactly what we’ve all been waiting for. This week, hundreds of thousands of young people took to the streets worldwide to protest the continued inaction of adults to stop climate change. They are calling for politicians and others in positions of power to implement the solutions they know are available to combat climate change.
For the last 20 to 30 years the environmental movement has been waiting for the public to care about the climate. Somehow, we haven’t really been able to capture the collective imagination until recently. It was all too distant, too far away, too hard to deal with.
Meanwhile, those seeking to slow warming have been using a top-down framework. It is in the power of governments and large businesses to implement the solutions to climate change at a bigger scale, and many of them have been leading the charge.
It can be frustrating to think of individual responsibility compared with the challenge of global warming. There are actions that we can take to reduce our carbon footprints – like switching our household lightbulbs to LEDs, saving up to 70 per cent energy.
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