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20 Actions Young and Older People Can Take for Climate Action Now<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s difficult not to miss the movement that the incredible Gretta Thunberg has ignited. This Swedish 16-year-old climate activist has helped young and old think about the future, our planet, climate change, the direction its moving in, and why it\u2019s so important that we take action for the climate now.<\/p>\n

Across the world, on the 15th March 2019 young people went on strike<\/a> to protest about the lack of leadership from their governments and demand climate action. As Fintan O\u2019Toole commented in the opening of his opinion piece in the Irish Times<\/a>, \u201care we so far sunk into indolence and fatalism that we need our own children to save us?\u201d<\/em> It would seem so and for that reason among many, globally parents and guardians encouraged young people to get active and stood with them as they did so. As Gretta points out in her TED Talk, \u201cwe are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction with up to 200 species going extinct every single day\u201d.<\/em> Doing nothing is not an option.<\/p>\n

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