Youth climate activists hit the streets worldwide on Friday, demanding that the governments of the world treat their concerns about climate change seriously. In America, youth activists met at the White House before marching to the Capitol. Among their demands was that President Joe Biden immediately “end all fossil fuel projects,” “ensure a just and immediate transition to renewable energies,” “hold polluters accountable,” and, most important of all, “declare a climate emergency.”
Climatistas have been after Biden to declare a “climate emergency” since before he took office. They believe that “emergency” status will clear the president and his Cabinet to act unilaterally regarding climate-related issues, instead of having to go through Congress.
“The president’s powers to address climate change through an emergency are very, very large,” said Kassie Siegel, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, in November of 2020. “This is number 1 on the list of things the Biden administration should do.”
The so-called “climate strikes” inspired by Swedish teen Greta Thunberg have returned after a nearly two-year absence due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and now the climate change propaganda is back with a vengeance.
According to Fridays For Future, an organizational outgrowth of Thunberg’s original climate strikes that began in Sweden in 2018, more than 700 events occurred worldwide on Friday.
A self-described environmental health student told Fox News that Biden needs to “ban fossil fuels and rely on American sustainable energy.” The same student went on to say: “This is our world. We need to do something about it before it’s too late.”
The U.S. protests were not limited to Washington, D.C.; young people took to the streets nationwide, including in San Francisco.
“This is our world. We need to do something about it before it’s too late,” said Hanna Estrada, one of the organizers of the San Francisco protests. “This is my home and I want to stay here.”
Worldwide, the youth activists were busy parroting globalist talking points about the supposed “existential threat” of climate change. In Dublin, Ireland’s Merrion Square, hundreds of youths gathered — short of the thousands they’d hoped for since Fridays For Future e-mailed 190 secondary schools in Ireland to participate but received no responses.
“We had a speaker talking about the one billion climate migrants that are expected in the future and the fact that the climate crisis will have an impact on people’s human rights, it will force people to move, it will uproot our lives unless we take action now,” said Irish climate activist Beth Doherty.
In Australia, youth speaker Ella O’Dwyer-Oshlack called herself a victim of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s inaction on climate change.
“I’m a victim of the government’s continued failure to act on the climate change,” O’Dwyer-Oshlack cheerily read. “And I’m not happy about it.”
“So, this is what I’ve got to say to you, Prime Minister Morrison,” O’Dwyer Oshlack read with a smile. “While you continue to fund the mining and burning of fossil fuels, you are destroying homes and lives.”
As are the adults who misinform these young people about climate change, the youth activists are lost for answers on just how we should power the world without fossil fuels, except to parrot the “renewable energy” myth, as if the wind and solar power currently available would be adequate to run the world we live in. Spoiler alert — wind and solar, without some serious upgrades to current technology, cannot even come close to providing enough energy for today’s world.
Leftist politicians love it when young people protest about the climate, since nobody’s supposed to question youth for fear of appearing to be mean to kids.
But what exactly are these young people willing to give up in order to “save the world?” Today’s young people are far more energy-dependent than their parents were. Will they be willing to give up their smartphones, laptops, or other electronic devices? Will they give up their personal vehicles for the sake of their planet?
Ms. Thunberg is right about one thing: Instead of waiting for the change the youth hope for, why not be the change? The youth activists who are so worried about climate change can begin by giving up everything they have or do that emits carbon. Instead of whining to governments that they don’t trust to do anything, these youngsters could send a real message to the world by giving up their own carbon-spewing lifestyles.
