PICS: Students across the globe skip class to demand action on climate
Hundreds of schoolchildren take part in a climate protest in Hong Kong. The coordinated 'school strike' was inspired by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, who began holding solitary demonstrations outside the Swedish parliament last year. Picture: Kin Cheung/APActivist Greta Thunberg, foreground, participates in a climate protest, in central Stockholm Sweden. Picture: Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via APStudents participate in a climate protest, at Stortorget in Lund, Sweden.
— In Berlin some 10,000 protesters, most of them young students, gathered in a downtown square, waving signs with slogans such as "March now or swim later" and "Climate Protection Report Card: F," before marching through the capital's government quarter and a planned stop in front of Chancellor Angela Merkel's office.
— About 50 students protested in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, chanting "There's No Planet B." One protester held a sign reading "You'll Miss The Rains Down in Africa." Experts say Africa, with its population of more than 1 billion people, is expected to be hardest hit by global warming even though it contributes least to the greenhouse gas emissions that cause it.
Others, including Germany's economy minister, Peter Altmaier, have urged students to stage the protests outside school hours. "That's why they need our support," he said. "If we do nothing then parts of this planet could become uninhabitable by the end of the century."Yet at present, the world is on track for an increase of 4 degrees Celsius, which experts say would have far-reaching consequences for life on the planet.
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