Students all over the nation are banding together to protest against the government’s inaction towards climate change. Sydney’s Martin Place and Melbourne’s Parliament House have been swarmed with school kids bunking off class to fight for the greater good.

Big School Walk Out for Climate Action are the mastermind’s behind the campaign. It was inspired by 15-year-old Swedish Student Greta Thunberg and her #ClimateStrike. The organisers have explained their mission statement “We are striking from school to tell our politicians to take our futures seriously and treat climate change for what it is – a crisis,” they continued “They can show us that they care by taking urgent action to move Australia beyond fossil fuel projects and get the job done of moving us to 100% renewable energy for all.”

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Whilst a little heartbreaking that we have to rely on the youths to get our politicians to pay attention, it’s definitely worked. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has taken aim at students attending the protests during a question time on Monday. During the questionnaire, ScoMo stated, “What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools,”.

Let’s all hope that the government pay attention to this uproar instead of the constant fence-sitting we’ve come accustomed to. Even if they don’t, at least we can take some solace in the fact our future generation are impassioned and empathetic, let’s just pray it’s not too late.

Earlier today we published an interview with one of the chief organisers behind the #ClimateStrike campaign. Fort Street High School student Jean Hinchcliffe, read all about it.

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