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The march halts. Thousands arrived in Canterbury to protest inaction against climate change in a global event. Photo by Yasmin Ali
Special report “You do not wait for change to happen, you make change happen”
By Jeanne Bigot Writer On Friday, 20 September, environmental activists across Canterbury called for a global climate strike. In Paris, New York, and here in the South East, people marched out into the streets to demand governments take action on climate change. Inspired by the Swedish teenage
activist, Greta Thunberg, and a vast majority of school children and students, more than 150 countries have taken part in this month’s major climate strike. This comes only three days before the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations. Signs across the march produced slogans such as “raise your voice, not sea levels”, “system change, not climate change” and “there is no planet B”.
The crowd, although mainly made up of schoolchildren, gathered non-students and students alike. Some parents came with their young children, with one girl mentioning that her school had let students out to strike and march that day. Many teenagers, most of them not even 18 yet, took up the megaphone and shared the reasons they were striking that day, keen to stress the urgency of
the situation. A 16-year-old speaker declared: “if nothing changes, by the time I’m 100, New York will be underwater.” Civil disobedience was the word of the day – a concept the environmental collective Extinction Rebellion pushes for as a vector of change. Continued on page 3...