Thousands of young people in Vermont joined peers around the world Friday to protest the failure to adequately address global warming.
“We are skipping our lessons to teach you one,” read a sign that a girl held up in a crowd packed shoulder-to-shoulder in front of Burlington City Hall.
The turnout there reached at least 2,000 and was probably many more, Deputy Police Chief Jon Murad said shortly after noon, as he and other officers set up traffic barricades. But he had no way of knowing for sure, he added.
The crowd spilled onto Main Street, which was closed to vehicles. Musicians played, students chanted for climate justice and speakers addressed the crowd from city hall steps.
In Montpelier, protesters gathered at the Statehouse carrying banners such as one that read “Climate Action Now.” Similar events were being held all around the state, according to the Vermont Climate Strike Coalition, which said Friday marks the start of a week of action.
Climate protests organized by youths have drawn massive crowds in major cities around the world.
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Weather is funny like that – you notice that weather people sometimes make predictions that don’t work exactly as they said? The ice caps are melting all right – look it up.
In 2008,, Al Gore told us that the north polar ice cap would be gone by now.
Can any of these protesters explain the melting of the glaciers from the northern hemisphere the last 10K years and that affect of the warming of the earth? My guess would be they can’t since they just want to repeat what someone else says for another day off classes.
Let the indoctrination of the students by the progressives begin.
Demonstrating is legal and proper. It’s not always neat, quiet, or charming. Does this come as a shock? I see climate change denial here in this comment thread, and old fogeys complaining that kids are immature. Really? Someday you may change your minds.
The 32 “dislikes” on one of my comments means nothing. 4 million people demonstrated in cities all over the world on Friday. That means more.
Further, some protestors exhaled carbon dioxide and used carbon based paper. That’s it, the whole enchilada is ridiculous then. Thank you to Mabel for enlightening us on these uneducated cretins.
Oh wait, you say these kids are being taught science? Chemical reactions? Physics? And they can read scientific papers? And that can plainly see that excess carbon and methane in the atmosphere is bad news? And they want to something done about it?
Ah, never mind, these kids never want to take responsibility for their own actions. Slackers.
I guess that’s it. Some moments of levity by kids de-legitimatize the whole protest.
Also, let’s hold the climate science from the 60s as evidence that all science is wrong, never mind the incredible advancement of computing power and the decades of model refinement due to peer review. After all, scientists in the 60s were still extolling (paid, of course by the cigarette industry) the virtues of smoking.
Next time my kids participate in a protest, they’ll be sure to check in with Vermont’s conservatives on the proper way to do it. You know, over in the corner where nobody is inconvenienced or can notice them.
Guess what their response will be? I suspect it will be something along the lines of ‘GFY,’
So whered the poster boards for their signs come from? What about all the waste they produced with this stunt?The only frightening thing about these protests is how brainwashed these kids are (although I do realize most were probably there just to skip school). Unfortunately the liberal agenda in schools doesn’t address any real data, which shows that the Earth goes through cyclical climate changes ALL. THE. TIME. and has been for millennia. Straight fear mongering. How about start teaching these kids to take responsibility for their own actions.