“You are always telling us kids to clean up after ourselves, so now it’s your turn. We are coming to remind you to tidy up your mess. And we will only get louder.”

~ Nora, Year 6 student at Forest Lodge Public School

In the lead up to the first-ever #SchoolStrike4Climate in Geelong, students’ protesting against politicians’ climate inaction will be happening outside Labor’s member of parliament Richard Marles’ office in Yarra Street on Friday 23 November.

Guest in The Sustainable Youth Hour is 19-year-old Alex Marshal who has picked up the torch from being 2017 School Captain of Sacred Heart College to becoming a climate emergency campaigner in Geelong and the Surf Coast.

We start the hour with a short statement by Elsie Luna from the UK: “Excuse me – I have a question for you. Do you know why children all over the world are speaking up about climate breakdown? Well I’ll tell you now. It’s because people like you aren’t saying anything about it all – and that has to change – now! …or else …there will be rebellion.”

“London calling”: We play some clips from the Facebook live-stream from ‘Rebellion Day’ in London on Saturday, where 6,000 people occupied five bridges and 80 protestors were arrested.

Kara Stuart from #StopAdaniMelbourne tells us all about the #Funeral4OurFuture taking place in Melbourne on Saturday 1 December


Marco Bellemo is a Year 12 student at Northcote High School, who has created two climate-focused art pieces for his VCE Art Major works.

Colin Mockett goes 4,000 years back today – to have a look at NASA’s carbon emissions data.

16-year-old Jamie Margolin talks about what gave her the idea to start the American youth movement This Is Zero Hour.

And we play a clip from a powerful speech by Bernie Sanders, possibly the next president of the United States:

 

“Change never takes place from top down. It takes place when people by the millions – sometimes over decades and sometimes over centuries – determine that the status quo, the world that they see in front of them, is not the world that should be, and they come together, and sometimes they get arrested, and sometimes they are on a picket line, and sometimes they die in the struggle, and what human history is about is passing that torch on, from generation to generation to generation – are people who pick up the torch that may have begun hundreds or literally thousands of years ago – and young people stand in front of the world today and say ‘No, this is not the world that I am comfortable with. This is the world we are going to change.”

~ Bernie Sanders, American senator

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