DEVELOPING: Millions of people are expected to join demonstrations demanding action on climate change in cities around the world on Friday.
LONDON — Millions of people are expected to join demonstrations demanding action on climate change in scores of cities around the world on Friday, including in hotbeds of the environmental movement such as London, New York, San Francisco and Seattle.
Many groups are involved in organizing the strikes including schoolchildren, trade unions, environmental groups and employees at large tech companies such as Amazon and Google, and their demands are all similar: reducing the use of fossil fuels to try to halt climate change.• Australia saw some of the first protests kick off Friday morning with organizersfilled the streets of Melbourne, Sydney and other cities in the biggest protests the country has seen in years.
• New Delhi, India, one of the world's most polluted cities, saw dozens of students and environmental activists chant"we want climate action" while hundreds marched in Thailand's capital Bangkok, before staging a"die-in" outside the Ministry of Natural Resources • In London, thousands of people from infants to grandparents blocked traffic outside the Houses of Parliament chanting “save our planet.”
• Crowds had gathered in European capitals including Berlin and Warsaw, African capitals such as Nairobi, Kenya, while organizers say there are some 800 events planned to take places in the U.S. later. New York City’s 1.1 million public school students were told they would be allowed to skip class to attend protests.“The climate crisis is an emergency — we want everyone to start acting like it.
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