Desk Report
Publish: 04 Sep 2021, 09:07 pm
Aftermath of Greta Thunberg's Strike
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Last week, some of the world’s leading climate change scientists
confirmed that humans are making irreversible changes to our planet and extreme
weather will only become more severe. This news is a “code red for humanity,”
said the United Nations secretary general.
It is — but young people like us have been sounding this alarm for
years. You just haven’t listened.
On Aug. 20, 2018, one child staged a lone protest outside the
Swedish Parliament, expecting to stay for three weeks. Tomorrow we will mark
three years since Greta Thunberg’s strike. Even earlier, brave young people
from around the world spoke out about the climate crisis in their communities.
And today, millions of children and young people have united in a movement with
one voice, demanding that decision makers do the work necessary to save our
planet from the unprecedented heat waves, massive floods and vast wildfires we
are increasingly witnessing. Our protest will not end until the inaction does.
For children and young people, climate change is the single
greatest threat to our futures. We are the ones who will have to clean up the
mess you adults have made, and we are the ones who are more likely to suffer
now. Children are more vulnerable than adults to the dangerous weather events,
diseases and other harms caused by climate change, which is why a new analysis
released Friday by UNICEF is so important.
The Children’s Climate Risk Index provides the first comprehensive
view of where and how this crisis affects children. It ranks countries based on
children’s exposure to climate and environmental shocks, as well as their
underlying vulnerability to those shocks.
It finds that virtually every child on the planet is exposed to at
least one climate or environmental hazard right now. A staggering 850 million,
about a third of all the world’s children, are exposed to four or more climate
or environmental hazards, including heat waves, cyclones, air pollution,
flooding or water scarcity. A billion children, nearly half the children in the
world, live in “extremely high risk” countries, the UNICEF researchers report.
This is the world being left to us. But there is still time to
change our climate future. Around the world, our movement of young activists
continues to grow.
In Bangladesh, Tahsin Uddin, 23, saw the impacts of climate change
in his village and other coastal areas and was moved to action. He is
passionate about climate education and has created a network of young
journalists and educators to spread awareness, all while organizing cleanups of
waterways teeming with plastic waste pollution.
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