School children stage a #ClimateStrike

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Children in Cardiff are among tens of thousands striking for action on climate change today.@BeckyJohnsonSky speaks to some of the pupils making their voices heard.

More on #SchoolStrike4Climate here: https://t.co/VoL3xmRSTF pic.twitter.com/90j8Vo1nO5

— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 15, 2019

BREAKING Theresa May criticises teenagers who are bunking off school today to protest about climate change. Her deputy official spokesman says: "Disruption increases teachers’ workloads and wastes lesson time that teachers have carefully prepared for". Is she right?

— Christopher Hope📝 (@christopherhope) February 15, 2019

Totally not put up to this by some teachers...

I despise politics and activism like this bring brought into school. Teachers must not push views on children, and the only place it should be 'discussed' is if you're having a debate. Don't hold LGBT assemblies if you're not going to invite the other side. Don't tell them Nelson Mandela was a great man and not tell them about him sticking people in petrol-filled tyres and setting them alight. Children should be taught *how to think* not what to think.

In my speaking lessons I have them debate all different topics, FAIRLY. I don't guide them to a certain view. Then, throughout, i'll play Devil's advocate on any side to get them to speak. I don't care what their opinions are just so long as they're speaking and improving their English.

The PM is right. Get back to work and do some Maths, Science, History or a Language which we suck at as a country.

[FlyingJesus]

Top reason to bunk school and get a long weekend. I don't doubt that some of the kids involved do care, but realistically children cannot "strike", it's just truancy

[Zak]

For those that are protesting I think it's good that they care about the environment. We have an obligation to our children to look after this place the best we can.

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For those that are protesting I think it's good that they care about the environment. We have an obligation to our children to look after this place the best we can.

It's one thing to care about the environment, as I do and actually act on (and not just lecture people about it) having grown many trees, planted/naturalised many hundreds of flowers and shouted at strangers for littering aka actually making a difference - and then there's standing there with a sign after being dropped off in Mummy's Range Rover, shouting that the world is going to come to an end like some religious nutcase. I would suggest these children all start getting out of bed an hour earlier and walking/cycling to school.

More generally on this topic, I came across some golden quotes from climate scientists in the 1980s on Twitter that I thought I would share below, and the same fraud is being propagated today. I used to believe in global warming, and I think what attracted me was this end of the world type stuff - the same thing that attracts people regarding Brexit consequences, the Millenium Bug, Swine Flu, Ebola and AIDs. Many younger people, like I was, like the idea of impending doom and then there's others who like to virtue signal over impending doom. I think that's why older people are much more sceptical of everything - they've heard all this before.

Anyway have a read of these corkers below from scientists in 1983.