Why Climate Action is the Antithesis of White Supremacy

By Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian blog

Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation.

Frida Berrigan, A Mother Swept Away by Climate Change

By Frida Berrigan, Tom Dispatch

I’m not going to fail as a parent. I’m already listening to the school strikers, many just a few years older than Rosena. I’m going to heed their leadership. I plan to join them, to learn and listen, to do my best to share my still unarticulatable fears and, with my children, to face this future together.

The Worst Reason to Oppose the Green New Deal

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

I would even venture that climate change is becoming one of the topics most talked about—or like religion and politics not to be talked about—around dinner tables. I credit the rising tide of youth activism for this rather sudden reversal of fortune.

School Climate Strikes: What Next for the Latest Generation of Activists?

By Marc Hudson, The Conversation

Coordinated school strikes may be a novel tactic, but mass environmental activism isn’t. So will things be any more successful this time around?

Young Climate Strikers Can Win their Fight. We Must All Help

By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog

This one has to succeed. It is not just that the youth climate strike, now building worldwide with tremendous speed, is our best (and possibly our last) hope of avoiding catastrophe.

School Climate Strikes: Why Adults no Longer Have the Right to Object to their Children Taking Radical Action

By Rupert Read, The Conversation

A worldwide wave of school climate strikes, begun by the remarkable Greta Thunberg, has reached the UK. Some critics claim these activist-pupils are simply playing truant, but I disagree. Speaking as both a climate campaigner and an academic philosopher, I believe school walkouts are morally and politically justifiable.