Castlemaine Students Kick Off School Strike for Climate Action
- School Strike 4 Climate
- Oct 10, 2018
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 18, 2018
A group of year eight students in Central Victoria have kicked off the School Strike for Climate Action this week. Read their letter below.
Hi everyone,
Our names are Milou and Harriet, and we are fourteen. We live in
Castlemaine and are in year 8 at school. And we care about our
futures.
We have decided to go on strike from school to make our politicians
do something about the climate emergency. We’ve been inspired by
Greta, a fifteen year old girl in Sweden, who has been striking from
school in front of the Swedish parliament.
Climate change is one of the biggest problems facing the world and it
isn’t being addressed quickly enough. We are striking because in
Australia, education is viewed as immensely important, and a key way
to make a difference in the world. But just going to school isn’t
doing anything about climate change. And it doesn’t seem that our
politicians are doing anything, or at least not enough, about climate
change either.
As people, we have a tendency to think only of the present impacts of our actions, and not the ones that follow after. We, the children and teenagers, are going to be living in this world for decades to come
and we don’t like the look of the way this climate is heading.
This has to change!
So, as our contribution to the changes we would like to see, we are
organising a strike from school. We are temporarily sacrificing our
education in order to save our futures.
If you feel the same way, find a way to join us. If you don’t feel
confident enough to come on strike, but still care, there are numerous
other ways to help, like telling others about the climate emergency.
So, if you want to join us in striking, you could walk out of school,
like us, in November and go and sit outside a politician’s office with
your own climate strike sign. The biggest day for walking out of
school will be Friday 30th November, when we hope lots of kids will
join us at the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne at midday.
Yours truly,
Harriet and Milou
DIESENDORF: YOu really should bother to be more informed.
I have proveided here a few links that might help.
Like these three young girls, you have swallowed the hook, the line and the sinker.
I only hope you and other well intentioned people have the ability to learn.
Presumably you are unaware of Sun Tzu - one being:
"Know Your Enemy"
Think about it!
Good on you for taking some action; climate change is an incredibly urgent issue! You are showing leadership and ethical strength by acting on on an issue that politicians have acknowledged but largely refused to act on. Many politicians are still propping up fossil fuels with both with a program of lies (that we need expensive new coal power stations) and large subsidies. The evidence that demands urgent action is overwhelming; both in incredibly huge amount of scientific study that's been done on anthropogenic global warming and through just looking at world around us - bushfires in winter, drought in spring, record temperatures and record deaths from heatwaves in the recent Northern hemisphere summer. It's sad to see the denier…
Girls, Some good thoughts and intentions here, but,
Did you realise Victoria has state elections on the 24th, the week-end before your strike?
How relevant is Adani's proposed Carmichael to Spring Street?
Please don't use statements like "I don't want to live in a world ..." when by your own placards, there is no planet B. The alternatives are pretty grim. Doomsayers are depressing. Many of the things you denounce are actually quintessentially Australian and have been so for millenia. Droughts, bushfires and extreme weather. I have driven from sweltering Tenterfield to accumulating snow on the Breadalbane plains (in a single day, 8/8/2008 Beijing Olympics). People in Darwin celebrate that first deluge of the hot-wet. I still feel the low…
And for the three young girls (who I admire for actually taking a stand on what they believe to be true) and the "Science Teacher" here - who I doubt would have even heard of the scientist Patrick Moore (founder of Greenpeace) - here's just a started on your journey to learning that not all which is presented is either true or in balance. Most often it is not. ALWAYS question. So devote just 15 mins of your lives to this: Patrick Moore - Why it's not CO2_20180612
15mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdmBaBS4zkU&feature=youtu.be
CONTACTPCJV: That you are a science teacher or any teacher for that matter is of great concern.
The whole essence of science is to challenge, and in a state of righteousness it is not surprising that soeicty is polarised given your closed mind.
Now as a supposed teacher of science, I presume you are aware that the issue of Climate and Weather are different because their drivers are totally separate. That we are crapping on our planet - land, water, atmosphere is a separate issue to both climate and weather.
There is bue ONE solution to the underlying issue for atmospheric emissions and that's modern, inherently safe nuclear.
That aside and your vastly superior knowledge than mine (you must be…