Children’s Climate Crusade

Hello Everybody.  I have something to say about climate change and our children.

      I don’t know about you, but I was thrilled to see kids all over the world united in a global protest of climate change.  Four million children from countries on every continent and from all 50 states in America, put aside their video games and smartphones and flooded the streets.

       The kids demanded that government leaders around the world do something to stop the warming of the planet because they fear it could be uninhabitable by the time they grow up.

        Then I realized, they probably marched for nothing. World leaders who could do something about climate change probably looked at the demonstrations and thought, “Oh, how sweet. The kids are worried about climate change.” And that’s about as far as their interest will probably go.

        Don’t you know the powers that be don’t listen to children?  They don’t vote. They don’t have big money to spread around to politicians. They don’t run big corporations. They don’t run anything. But on the issue of climate change, they look a lot smarter than many politicians.

    One of the signs the kids carried during their march read: “You know it’s time for change when the children act like leaders and the leaders act like children.”

That’s it for now.