Were your kids on strike Friday?
Thousands students and like-minded adults met at Philadelphia City Hall Friday morning as part of a global Climate Strike to try and get adults to address climate change, and quickly.
"If it keeps on happening like this, the world, some of it could become uninhabitable," KYW Newsradio quoted Koby Fallon, 12, of Greene Street Friends School, as saying. "The sea level's rising. There's a few coasts where it's gonna be underwater."
There were also protests planned in West Chester, PA and Princeton, NJ with a climate march scheduled for Sunday in Doylestown, PA.
Friday's global protests were timed to make an impression on a U.N. summit on climate change next week in New York. The student marches have been inspired in part by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who began a one-teen protest movement that has spread around the world. She is expected to address the U.N. summit on Monday.
Philadelphia School District told its students they would be marked absent if they missed class Friday to attend the strike, said WHYY. Others, like William Penn Charter School, encouraged students to take part, said the Inquirer.
"As students in a Quaker school, we are called to work for the peaceable kingdom of God on the whole earth," Penn Charter, in a Tweet, quoted a student speaker saying at its own campus climate strike that preceded the City Hall event.
