#FridaysForFuture

#FridaysForFuture is a movement that began in August 2018, after 15 years old Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school-day for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. She posted what she was doing on Instagram and Twitter and it soon went viral.

On the 8th of September 2018, Greta decided to continue striking every Friday until the Swedish policies provided a safe pathway well under 2-degree C, i.e. in line with the Paris agreement.

The hashtags #FridaysForFuture and #Climatestrike spread and many students and adults began to protest outside of their parliaments and local city halls all over the world. This has also inspired the Belgium Thursday school strikes.

They distinguish between:

Weekly global strikes – several countries are striking weekly every Friday
Big strikes – when one or two countries create ‘fireworks’ – on Feb 15 Sweden went big along with the UK
Deep is when many countries sychronise together – May 24 is Deep

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#FridaysForFuture — 2 Comments

Keith Bright on 14/12/2019 at 22:19 said:

Hi, I am going to get a friends son, who is in year 8, to start a petition at his school to present to the council to make sure when mature trees are cut down 2 new trees are replanted. At the moment it is only trees with Tree Prevention Order against them that need to have trees replanted when they are cut down, if the TPO officer allows it to be cut down. It’s ridiculous that the trees in the town centre have been cut down leaving so few.

I want to try and get all schools to be involved including the primary schools, who could produce drawn pictures and signed petition so it can be taken to the council showing how the children of Coventry want to get involved with climate change. After all trees are needed as we all know and for a council to allow trees to be cut down without the TPO knowing about it.

My problem is I am a pensioner and don’t know how to get the schools involved other than the one I mentioned.

I do hope you know someone who could help me or school children who would take it up themselves.

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- Philip Brown on 15/12/2019 at 04:48 said:
  
  Hello Keith, Getting information into schools is always difficult, and it’s not just children who need to be able to express their distress at what is happening. I suggest you obtain publicity by sending a press release to the media.
  
  In order to create an official petition go to https://myaccount.coventry.gov.uk/Petitions
  
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Coventry CAN make a difference to Climate Change

#FridaysForFuture

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