Support The Global Climate Strike

Today, September 20, three days before the UN Climate Summit in NYC, which will discuss their plans for aggressive action to address the current climate emergency, young people and adults will strike all across the world to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis. This  global climate strike, represents a crucial opportunity for the movement against climate catastrophe and for people. to demand a right to a future.
This movement has already mobilised hundreds of thousands of students in over 40 countries, with young people around the world participating in incredibly militant strikes and marches,  the aim of which is to force governmental action on climate change.Students across the world are planning today to walk out of class to call attention to the issue. But everyone is invited to express solidarity and "disrupt business as usual," organizers say."Together, we will sound the alarm and show our politicians that business as usual is no longer an option," they say. "The climate crisis won't wait, so neither will we."
People are finally joining the dots. We are one planet, one interconnected ecosystem, and there are no single issues. War, social injustice and climate breakdown are inter-connected, and so must be the response. Today’s wars are caused increasingly by struggles for resources like water and arable land, and they cause drought, climate breakdown and displacement.
Today’s refugees not only flee violence and political persecution ,but also grueling poverty, the denial of basic human rights, the daily culture of violence that is the legacy of war and injustice. A global economic order that benefits few and impoverishes many destroys the futures of the young and of generations to come.
Fundamentally, the problem is that Capitalism in its current guise ranks short-term, often volatile growth over long-term stability. It’s a beast that needs constant feeding. We exploit the earth’s limited natural resources to produce plastic, metal, and paper. We burn fossil fuels to generate the energy that powers our way of life. We drive other species to the brink of extinction for food, fashion and more space. We turn our fellow humans into commodities,  their labour often valued at less than the equivalent of £1 a day.
And worse is to come if we don’t act. Most scientists agree that we have just 12 years until warming reaches the tipping point of 1.5C. The evidence warns us that there’s no coming back from that, leading to rising seas, stronger storms, heat waves and yes ecological catastrophe.The Extinction Rebellion demonstrations and school strikes  have at least created a justifiable sense of urgency. The younger generation is showing us the way: the onus is now on governments, businesses and society to work together before it's far too late.
Todays school strike, which adults around the world have been asked to join, is the largest mobilisation yet attempted by the youth climate movement launched last year by the Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg. As such, it is an event of international significance.
There will be strike events in at least 137 countries. Trade Unions and workers across the world are organising to support the Global Climate Strike on 20th which will begin the week of action. Trade Unions for Energy Democracy have collated some of the statements and union support and action planned across the world.
The TUC has unanimously passed a motion to support the school student Global Climate Strike  and has called on TUC affiliate unions to organise a 30 minute work day campaign action to coincide with the school students strike, and  Amnesty International has  called on head teachers worldwide to back the global protests.
On its website https://globalclimatestrike.net/ Global Climate Strike says, “This September, millions of us will walk out of our workplaces and homes to join young climate strikers on the streets and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels.  “Our house is on fire — let’s act like it. We demand climate justice for everyone.”
.Don't let young people fight alone, we need to show the powerful  that the whole world is acting with them. When your children or grandchildren ask what did you do to stop the climate crisis, say you joined the September 20 climate strike and demanded a better world. The fate of our planet is at stake. .Go out and make yourself heard.

Find your local climate strike event below :

https://ukscn.org/events/