The Big Issue

Climate change: be part of the solution not the pollution

Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg inspired millions of young people to swap their classrooms for the streets to fight for their futures – and the world stopped to listen.

When the global pandemic made these protests impossible, they didn’t give up. They simply took their fight online, sharing ideas for limiting global warming and holding a ‘Mock COP26’ climate conference in place of the real, postponed, one.

After all, it is the children and young people of today who will inherit the worsening effects of climate change, and bear the costs of it.

But while protesting and the internet have enabled them to get their voices heard, there is now

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