It is estimated that 4-million young people took to the streets for 4‚600 protests in about 150 countries in 2019, with Greta Thunberg’s school strikes outside parliament in her native Sweden having a domino effect. The 16-year-old was recently named Time Person of the Year.
British environmental writer Stephen Buranyi describes climate activism as having “languished outside the mainstream for years” but in 2019 is “finally breaking through”...
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