Greta Thunberg and the school children of the climate revolution | 60 Minutes Australia

These days that old saying, “Children should be seen and not heard”, is just that: old. Young people have had enough of the way the adults are running the world and they want everyone to know they can do better. The latest global protest phenomenon has school kids going on strike, abandoning the classroom and taking to the streets to demand action on climate change. It’s a campaign that started with one teenager in Sweden, and it has grown to include 1.4 million angry and noisy students from 125 countries. And they’re not just loud, they’re also very smart. So perhaps we all need to be reminded that the times really are a-changin’.

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