<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">The Washington Post </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">September 24 at 10:04 PM</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(25, 85, 165); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(25, 85, 165);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/" class="">Science<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(25, 85, 165);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(42, 42, 42);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Teen girls are leading the climate strikes and helping change the face of environmentalism</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">==—————————————————————————————————</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Teen girls of color have been at the forefront of the climate movement in America. Isra Hirsi, the 16-year-old executive director of <a href="https://www.youthclimatestrikeus.org/about" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(44, 108, 180);" class="">Youth Climate Strike</span></a> 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 <a href="http://thisiszerohour.org/who-we-are/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(44, 108, 180);" class="">Zero Hour</span></a> was founded by a Latina high schooler, Jamie Margolin.</span></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">==————————————————————</span></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/24/teen-girls-are-leading-climate-strikes-helping-change-face-environmentalism/" class="">https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/24/teen-girls-are-leading-climate-strikes-helping-change-face-environmentalism/</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(110, 110, 110); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(110, 110, 110); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(25, 85, 165); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(25, 85, 165);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/sarah-kaplan/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(25, 85, 165); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(25, 85, 165);" class="">Sarah Kaplan</span></a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Opening paragraphs:</b> 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.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">They were young. They were diverse. And they were overwhelmingly girls.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“Something different is happening here,” the <a href="http://www.drfisher.umd.edu/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(44, 108, 180); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(44, 108, 180);" class="">University of Maryland sociologist</span></a> 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."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">These findings jibe with results of a <a href="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" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(44, 108, 180); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(44, 108, 180);" class="">recent poll of American teenagers</span></a> conducted by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation. The poll found that </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">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.</span></p><div class=""><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/24/teen-girls-are-leading-climate-strikes-helping-change-face-environmentalism/" class="">https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/24/teen-girls-are-leading-climate-strikes-helping-change-face-environmentalism/</a></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> ========++++++. Food: Heat has consequences +++++=======<br class=""> <br class="">“We used observational data and output from 23 global climate models to show a high probability </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">(>90%) that growing season temperatures in the tropics and subtropics by the end of the 21st </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">century will exceed the most extreme seasonal temperatures recorded from 1900 to 2006. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"In temperate regions, the hottest seasons on record will represent the future norm in many locations.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> <br class="">“Coping with the short-run challenge of food price volatility is daunting. But the longer-term </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">challenge of avoiding a perpetual food crisis under conditions of global warming is far more </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">serious. “<br class=""> <br class="">David. S. Battisti and Rosamond L. Naylor.<br class="">Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">SCIENCE 9 JANUARY 2009<br class=""> </div></div></div></div></div></div>
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