Today in Labor History March 15, 2019: Nearly 1.5 million young people in 123 countries went on strike to protest the climate crisis and government inaction. The School Strike for Climate movement began after Swedish high school student Greta Thunberg staged a protest in August 2018 outside the Swedish parliament with a sign that read "Skolstrejk för klimatet" ("School strike for climate").
In 2019, the CO2 in the atmosphere was roughly 409.8 parts per million (ppm), while in 2026, it is expected to reach around 429.4 ppm. This has been driven almost entirely by the burning of fossil fuels, factory farming and deforestation, all of which have increased over the past seven years. Clearly things are getting worse, rather than better, a worsening that will likely accelerate due to Trump and Netanyahu’s war on Iran & Lebanon, the war in Ukraine, and to Trump’s aggressive anti-climate policies. And in that same seven-year time period, we’ve seen Thunberg’s activism switch from being primarily focused on the climate to a broader anti-capitalist, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist activism.
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