This 12-year-old is trying to save the world by skipping school
The 12-year-old seventh grader from Denver, Colorado, protests climate change outside government buildings and businesses. She calls out state lawmakers in speeches at town halls and on Twitter. And on Friday, she'll take on her biggest endeavor yet: co-organizing the US Youth Climate Strike, a national student protest on March 15.
So they start blocking us out. They start blocking out everything. They sort of don't listen to us anymore. But us doing this radical action, risking our education and not going to school, that gets their attention. What gives you hope? One, we have a ton of different renewable energy sources and we don't even need coal plants anymore. Two, what gives me hope is that I know we can do it. I know we can do it in 11 years. We can do so much in 11 years.
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