Greta Thunberg

In August 2018, Greta Thunberg sat outside Swedish parliament with a sign reading "school strike for climate." It was her first Friday walking out of school for climate action, and she made a weekly routine out of it. Today her efforts inspired millions to…

Each generation inherits the messes made by its predecessors, and their mythologies, too. Like many nineties kids, I grew up on stories and photographs of anti-Vietnam protests: young people in flared jeans and peacoats marching hundreds deep, brandishing pit…

"We are the rising sun / We are the change / We are the ones we've been waiting for / And we are rising"

P.S. 10 kids wouldnt take no for an answer, said Elizabeth Meister, whose fifth-grader at the school in Park Slope, Brooklyn, helped organize a demonstration in which children waved signs and sat down in their schoolyard for 15 minutes instead of filing in fo…

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Hundreds of thousands of people swarmed the streets in Australia, India, the U.K. and elsewhere Friday in a stunning kickoff to the global youth-led climate protests demanding immediate action …

A global climate strike is under way, with millions of people protesting for "an end to the age of fossil fuels and climate justice for everyone". The event was sparked by teenage campaigner Greta Thunberg, who is attending the New York protest, where 1.1m c…

As the near-term effects of climate change become more and more apparent, the generations that will inherit Earth and all of its environmental woes are beginning to speak up in favor of a sustainable future. One of the loudest voices from the chorus comes fro…

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Some teenagers in Canada and the United States are pledging not to have children until their governments take serious steps to combat climate change. Emma Lim, an 18-year-old student at McGill University in Montreal, recently launched a climate-change move…

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