[MCN] The Washington Post - Teen girls are leading the climate strikes and helping change the face of environmentalism

[Lance Olsen]

The Washington Post September 24 at 10:04 PM
Science <https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/>
Teen girls are leading the climate strikes and helping change the face of environmentalism

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Teen girls of color have been at the forefront of the climate movement in America. Isra Hirsi, the 16-year-old executive director of Youth Climate Strike <https://www.youthclimatestrikeus.org/about> and daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), has spoken about how her identity as a black Muslim woman drives her activism. The teenager-led environmental justice organization Zero Hour <http://thisiszerohour.org/who-we-are/> was founded by a Latina high schooler, Jamie Margolin.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/24/teen-girls-are-leading-climate-strikes-helping-change-face-environmentalism/ <https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/24/teen-girls-are-leading-climate-strikes-helping-change-face-environmentalism/>

By Sarah Kaplan <https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/sarah-kaplan/>

Opening paragraphs: Dana Fisher has studied environmental activism for decades, but the crowds of people who took to the streets Friday to demand aggressive measures against climate change were unlike any she’d seen.

They were young. They were diverse. And they were overwhelmingly girls.

“Something different is happening here,” the University of Maryland sociologist <http://www.drfisher.umd.edu/> said. “We have a new wave of contention in society that’s being led by women. … And the youth climate movement is leading this generational shift."

In a survey of more than 100 U.S. organizers of the climate strike and nearly 200 participants in Friday’s Washington protest, Fisher found that 68 percent of organizers and 58 percent of participants identified as female. People of color made up more than a third of protesters in Washington — a proportion that almost matches the racial demographics of the United States.

These findings jibe with results of a recent poll of American teenagers <https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/most-american-teens-are-frightened-by-climate-change-poll-finds-and-about-1-in-4-are-taking-action/2019/09/15/1936da1c-d639-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.html> conducted by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation. The poll found that 46 percent of girls said climate change was “extremely important” to them personally, compared with 23 percent of boys. At least twice as many black and Hispanic teens participated in school walkouts on climate change than their white counterparts, and girls were slightly more likely to have attended a walkout than boys.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/24/teen-girls-are-leading-climate-strikes-helping-change-face-environmentalism/ <https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/24/teen-girls-are-leading-climate-strikes-helping-change-face-environmentalism/>

   ========++++++.  Food: Heat has consequences +++++=======
 
“We used observational data and output from 23 global climate models to show a high probability 
(>90%) that growing season temperatures in the tropics and subtropics by the end of the 21st 
century will exceed the most extreme seasonal temperatures recorded from 1900 to 2006. 

"In temperate regions, the hottest seasons on record will represent the future norm in many locations.
 
“Coping with the short-run challenge of food price volatility is daunting. But the longer-term 
challenge of avoiding a perpetual food crisis under conditions of global warming is far more 
serious. “
 
David. S. Battisti  and Rosamond L. Naylor.
Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat. 
SCIENCE 9 JANUARY 2009
 

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