{"id":44606,"date":"2019-03-20T06:46:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44606"},"modified":"2019-03-20T06:47:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:47:01","slug":"failing-students-on-climate-change%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44606","title":{"rendered":"Failing Students on Climate Change\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/03\/20\/failing-students-on-climate-change\/\">Failing Students on Climate Change<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/A5045B06-0209-4665-9C7F-A45422DA3DC3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110169\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photograph Source Leonhard Lenz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Friday hundreds of thousands of students around the globe walked out of classrooms to demand that our political leaders take concrete steps to address the deadly threat of climate change. They are right, of course, that the generations of their elders, from millennials to baby boomer grandparents, have failed in our responsibility to preserve a livable future for our ever more crowded, ever more polluted and ever more endangered planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And while that\u2019s a sad statement to make, it is an undeniable truth and a shameful guilt that should cause every one of the \u201celders\u201d to think long and hard about whether they\u2019re making the world better or worse for our young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The movement, characterized by various identifiers such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fridaysforfuture?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#fridaysforfuture<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/schoolstrike4climate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#schoolstrike4climate<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/climatestrike?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#climatestrike<\/a>, is vast and growing. The strikes by young people staring an unlivable future in the face are now massive, but were inspired by a 16-year old Swede, Greta Thunberg, who has now been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. As Thunberg famously addressed the United Nations climate conference in Poland earlier this year: \u201cYou say you love your children above all else, and yet you\u2019re stealing their future in front of their very eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Truer words were never spoken. Just look at what these young people are up against. Here in the United States, the second-largest producer of greenhouse gasses in the world, we have a president who not only doesn\u2019t believe 97 percent of the world\u2019s scientists who acknowledge human-caused climate change, he demands that we exert \u201cenergy dominance\u201d by drilling, fracking, pumping and burning more fossil fuels than any nation on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failing Students on Climate Change Photograph Source Leonhard Lenz Last Friday hundreds of thousands of students around the globe walked out of classrooms to demand that our political leaders take concrete steps to address the deadly threat of climate change. They are right, of course, that the generations of their elders, from millennials to baby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,24684,5493,18876,656,7632],"class_list":["post-44606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-strike","tag-counterpunch","tag-george-ochenski","tag-protest","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44607,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44606\/revisions\/44607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}