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Volume 12, Issue 3
A A CALL CALL TO TO
CLIMATE CLIMATE ACTION ACTION BY BY ANNA ANNA LEAH LEAH LONG LONG
Climate change poses one of the most
important challenges facing humanity in this century, as it threatens life as we know it and requires swift collective action. Climate change has oftentimes intimidated individuals from action— individuals who have otherwise rejected hope for any viable solution as a result of how overwhelmingly vast of an issue it has become. While our individual efforts unequivocally contribute to the greater whole, one of the biggest assets we have as a collective is our right to practice climate action. Climate action is an important aspect of any nation as it allows for citizens to exercise their rights to free speech and speak out against an unjust government and its laws. World leaders should be mobilizing the people of all nations to help solve the climate crisis, yet these
leaders and governments are the ones responsible for making the crisis worse. Many world governments and leaders have failed to acknowledge the urgency of climate change and the immediate threat it poses. As a result, climate change protests have erupted around the world within the last few months, with movements spreading across different continents. Hundreds of thousands of people have gone on strike to demand action on climate change. The photo on the following page shows thousands of activists who gathered in Hamburg, Germany on September 20, 2019 to demand action on climate change (Sengupta). Young people across Germany have led the global initiative by going on strike from school every Friday, formally known as Fridays for Future. Led by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, this movement calls for governments to take more action against the immediate threats of climate change by reducing CO2 emissions to and below limits set forth by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The United States of America lacks leadership on the international stage when it comes to climate change
