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U.S. NEWS Saturday 21 September 2019

Continued from Front to do something, and they permanent.
"Basically, our earth is dying, should take that," she said. New York protester Pearl
and if we don't do some- "And otherwise, they should Seidman, 13, hoped the
thing about it, we die," said feel ashamed." demonstration would tell
A.J. Conermann, a 15-year The world has warmed the Trump administration
old high school sophomore about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 "that if they can't be adults,
among several thousand Fahrenheit) since before we're going to be adults.
who marched to the Capi- the Industrial Revolution, Because someone needs
tol building in Washington. and scientists have attribut- to do it." At least one Trump
"I want to grow up. I want ed more than 90 percent of supporter waved a large
to have a future," Coner- the increase to emissions of "Trump 2020" flag as the
mann added. heat-trapping gases from demonstrators marched in
In New York, where public fuel-burning and other hu- Manhattan.
schools excused students man activity. In Florida, high school stu-
with parental permission, Scientists have warned dents shouted "Miami is un-
tens of thousands of mostly that global warming will der attack" in Miami Beach, Students and guests gather on the steps of the Statehouse during
young people marched subject Earth to rising seas where some worried about a climate change protest, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, in Indianapolis.
through lower Manhattan, and more heat waves, losing their homes to rising Associated Press
briefly shutting down some droughts, powerful storms, water. On the West Coast,
streets. flooding and other prob- student-led protests drew in conveniences. would not have to be skip-
"Sorry I can't clean my lems, and that some have some Google and Amazon Many middle schools in ping school," said Jessica
room, I'm busy saving the already started manifesting employees. largely coal-reliant Poland Ahmed, a 16-year-old Lon-
world," one protester's sign themselves. Amazon, which ships more gave students the day off don student.
declared. Climate change has made than 10 billion items a year, so they could participate In Helsinki, the Finnish capi-
And in Paris, teenagers record-breaking heat tem- vowed Thursday to cut in the rallies in Warsaw and tal, a man dressed as Santa
and kids as young as 10 perature records twice as its use of fossil fuels, and other cities, and President Claus stood outside parlia-
traded classrooms for the likely as record-setting cold Google CEO Sundar Pichai Andrzej Duda joined school ment holding a sign: "My
streets. Marie-Lou Sahai, 15, temperatures over the past told the Financial Times in students picking up trash house is on fire, my reindeer
skipped school because two decades in the con- a story published Friday in a forest. German police can't swim."
"the only way to make peo- tiguous U.S., according to that eliminating the com- said more than 100,000 Smaller protests took place
ple listen is to protest." National Oceanic and At- pany's carbon emissions people gathered in front in Asia, including in Japan,
The demonstrations were mospheric Administration by 2030 didn't seem "un- of Berlin's landmark Bran- South Korea, the Philip-
partly inspired by the ac- data. reasonable." Friday's dem- denburg Gate, near where pines, Hong Kong and In-
tivism of Swedish teenager Nations around the world onstrations started in Aus- Chancellor Angela Merkel's dia. In the Afghan capital,
Greta Thunberg, who has recommitted at a 2015 sum- tralia, where organizers es- Cabinet thrashed out the Kabul, an armored person-
staged weekly "Fridays for mit in Paris to hold warming timated 300,000 protesters final details of a 54 billion nel carrier was deployed to
Future" demonstrations for to less than 2 degrees Cel- marched in 110 towns and euro ($60 billion) plan to protect about 100 young
a year, urging world lead- sius (3.6 Fahrenheit) more cities, including Sydney curb Germany's green- people as they marched,
ers to step up efforts against than pre-industrial-era lev- and the national capital, house gas emissions . led by a group of several
climate change. els by the end of this centu- Canberra. Demonstrators Thousands of schoolchil- young women carrying a
"It's such a victory," Thun- ry, and they added a more called for their country, the dren and their adult sup- banner emblazoned with
berg told The Associated ambitious goal of limiting world's largest exporter of porters demonstrated in "Fridays for Future."
Press in an interview in New the increase to 1.5 C (2.7F). coal and liquid natural gas, London outside the British "We know war can kill a
York. "I would never have But U.S. President Donald to take more drastic action Parliament. The British gov- group of people," said Far-
predicted or believed that Trump subsequently an- to reduce greenhouse gas ernment said it endorsed deen Barakzai, one of the
this was going to happen, nounced that he was with- emissions. the protesters' message but organizers. "The problem in
and so fast — and only in drawing the U.S. from the Acting Prime Minister Mi- didn't condone skipping Afghanistan is our leaders
15 months." agreement, which he said chael McCormack — filling school — a stance that are fighting for power, but
Thunberg spoke at a rally benefited other nations at in while Prime Minister Scott didn't sit well with some of the real power is in nature."
later Friday and is expect- the expense of American Morrison was on a state visit the young protesters. In South America, scores
ed to participate in a U.N. businesses and taxpayers. to the United States — said "If politicians were taking of demonstrators gathered
Youth Climate Summit on Trump called global warm- Australia was already tak- the appropriate action we outside the Rio de Janeiro
Saturday and speak at the ing as a "hoax" before be- ing action to cut emissions. need and had been taking state legislature in Brazil,
U.N. Climate Action Sum- coming president. He has McCormack called the cli- this action a long time ago where a recent increase
mit with global leaders on since said he's "not denying mate rallies " a disruption" when it was recognized in fires in the Amazon re-
Monday. climate change" but is not that should have been held the world was changing gion stirred an international
"They have this opportunity convinced it's manmade or on a weekend to avoid in- in a negative way, then I outcry.q