New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave her support on Wednesday to a you...
WELLINGTON - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave her support on Wednesday to a youth movement urging government action to tackle climate change ahead of protests by students across the world later this week.
Thousands of school children in Australia and New Zealand intend to skip school and protest on Friday as part of similar action by students worldwide taking their cue from 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. “Too often we make this assessment that to make an impact we have to be of voting age. That is not the case,” she said.
Whether students should be striking during school time was a decision for students and their parents, Ardern told local media earlier in the day.She said she was booed by an audience 10 years ago for speaking about climate change, which she has described as her generation’s “nuclear free moment”.
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