Several hundred secondary school students left classes to attend a “climate strike” protest on Friday, as part of a global movement to demand greater action to tackle climate change. Turnout for the protest was down significantly from the climate strike last September, which saw over 10,000 young people take to the streets in a movement inspired by Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg. In the end significantly fewer students than the expected 2,000 attended the protest, which numbered several hundred. Climate change was “a really important issue and I think the Government needs to pay more attention to it”, she said. “I don’t know about politics in general, but definitely there is a lot of interest in climate change and to stop that from happening.”

Source: The Irish Times February 07, 2020 16:52 UTC