the kids are alright
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Hearing Greta’s Message
Last year, the climate movement found new vigour in a young Swede named Greta Thunberg. She began a solo strike and quickly caught global media attention for her sharp tongue and truth telling. Too often, however, her words have fallen on deaf ears as politicians continue to ignore the climate crisis. In one of her…
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How Phone Banking Teens Are Reshaping U.S. Congress
This week’s U.S. election primaries were full of huge progressive victories, including races that prominently featured climate champions. What helped fuel a win for Jamaal Bowman and lead for Charles Booker wasn’t just your usual get-out-the-vote operation, though. It was one run by teens who, despite not being able to vote in this election, have…
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The Future Is Calling, And It Says Act Now Or We’re All Stuffed
On Wednesday, young climate activists rushed the main stage at the United Nations climate talks in Madrid in protest. The talks”dubbed COP25 in UN-speak”are the latest iteration of a 25-year exercise in futility, broken promises, and negligence. And young adults are sick of it.
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It’s Kids Vs. The World In A Landmark Climate Complaint
UNITED NATIONS ” On Tuesday, Greta Thunberg and 15 other young people filed a potentially world-changing climate complaint. On an abnormally steamy day in New York, when sweat built on the brows of the dark-suited diplomats funnelling into the United Nations for a major climate summit, the group of teens cranked up the heat even…