Young activists, led by 16-year old Greta Thunberg, have brought new energy into the fight to combat climate change. Can their enthusiasm bring real change or will they be stymied by politics and business interests?
What’s happening:Millions of people filled the streets in cities around the world in a massive collection of protests aimed at forcing political leaders to take drastic steps to avert the urgent risks of climate change. While climate activism has been around for years, the effort has recently been reshaped and reinvigorated by an infusion of vocal young people who have quickly become the face of the movement.
Why there’s debate:The youth climate movement, with Thunberg as its de facto figurehead, has inspired people of all ages who believe their unapologetic — at times apocalyptic — rhetoric may be able to force change where other environmental activists have come up short. Turning passion into action, some argue, may prove difficult when young activists run up against the entrenched political and corporate forces that have stymied environmental action for decades. Others accuse the youth movement of lacking practical solutions to implement their demands and for using an aggressive tone that may alienate members of older generations.
New possibilities have arisen thanks to young activists.“The youth climate activism movement has over the past year exploded prior notions of what’s possible in the realm of climate politics.” — Brian Kahn, Gizmodo They have wisely included other social justice issues in their platform.“Demands for a livable wage, like demands for a habitable planet, are unlikely to be granted by a class of elites for whom the status quo is working out pretty well. All the more reason, then, that these demands be made forcefully by a unified coalition of young people, workers, and others who have a stake in changing the future.”Youth activists highlight the emptiness of arguments against environmentalism.
Young people alone won’t be able to produce change.“It is our future that is at stake. But it is not only young people’s job to preserve the world we will — hopefully — grow old in; it is equally the job of those generations who put it at risk.” — Johanna Roth, Tennessean
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