[MCN] 1.1 Million New York City Students Can Skip School for Climate Protest : “This completely changes things,” one student said.

[Lance Olsen]

1.1 Million New York Students Can Skip School for Climate Protest <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/nyregion/youth-climate-strike-nyc.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage>
The city will not penalize those who attend global youth climate strikes on Friday. “This completely changes things,” one student said. <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/nyregion/youth-climate-strike-nyc.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage>
New York Times 1m ago


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"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.”

Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change  MAY 2018

Published online: 27 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4 

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“What we are witnessing is a temper tantrum against the mere suggestion that there are limits to what we can consume.” 

Naomi Klein
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/




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