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To Save the Planet From Climate Change, Students Take to the Streets

By Mindy Weisberger
published 24 September 2019

"If you don't act like adults, we will."

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Poisoned for profit
Steven (left), a 16-year-old high school student, traveled from Queens to the Global Climate Strike in Manhattan on Sept. 20. He said: "If this keeps going, we won't be around for much longer. There needs to be a change, it needs to happen now."
(Image credit: Live Science)

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Running out of time
A climate protester in New York holds a sign displaying a quote by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg: "I don't want your hope. I want you to panic."
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Running out of time

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Striking in Denmark
People demonstrate with placards during the Global Climate Strike at Raadhuspladsen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
(Image credit: Nils Meilvang/AFP/Getty Images)

Striking in Denmark

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Parisian protest
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Parisian protest

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"We build, we rise, we resist"
Children in Australia and the Pacific Islands kicked off a millions-strong global climate strike on September 20 -- heeding the rallying cry of teen activist Greta Thunberg and demanding adults take action to stave off environmental disaster.
(Image credit: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)

"We build, we rise, we resist"

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"Save our future"
A group of Indonesian children hold placards as they take part in a global climate change campaign in Surabaya.
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"Save our future"

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Students step up
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Students step up

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Climate justice warriors
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Climate justice warriors

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Mindy Weisberger is a senior writer for Live Science covering general science topics, especially those relating to brains, bodies, and behaviors in humans and other animals — living and extinct. Mindy studied filmmaking at Columbia University; her videos about dinosaurs, biodiversity, human origins, evolution, and astrophysics appear in the American Museum of Natural History, on YouTube, and in museums and science centers worldwide. Follow Mindy on Twitter.

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