Young People's Movement Against Climate Change
I've wondered in the past when young people would begin to demonstrate against climate change like we did back in the 60's and 70's in opposition to the Vietnam war. It appears to be happening finally. I believed that the anti-war movement didn't really begin until young people were being drafted to go to Vietnam. It became very personal and the movement burgeoned. The same thing seems to be happening now. Climate change is become very personal for young people and they are now finally becoming active. It's possible to mark the beginning of the anti-war movement to the Mario Savio and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Today we have a new "Mario Savio", Greta Thunberg . She is becoming the inspiration for the young people's movement against climate change. Greta Thunberg cut a frail and lonely figure when she started a school strike for the climate outside the Swedish parliament building last August. Her parents tried to dissuade he