While celebrating the millions on streets in London and Vancouver, we must not forget the sacrifices of people in the Global South.
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has inspired the cross-country climate marches, but accountability lies with governments and corporations.
There's no First Amendment in the workplace, which leaves worker activists at the whim of their employers.
Humans consume excessive resources with little or no benefits to well-being – and the politics of our economy are to blame. To counter the influence of industries in democracy, we must strike.
Mass strikes help target the psychological factors most important for acting on climate change, by emphasizing social norms and reinforcing the effectiveness of collective action.
Climate deniers have joyously laboured to create a world potentially uninhabitable for our children. Our activism has failed, and rebellion may be the only answer.
Ice cream company Ben & Jerry's will close its Australian stores for this month's global climate strike and pay staff to attend the protest, telling customers "if it's melted, it's ruined".
The Climate Strike movement shows us loud and clear that youth not only care about climate change, but that it needs to be brought to the table to cement their vote.
The move has been likened to putting the country on a "war footing", with climate and the environment at the very centre of all government policy, rather than being on the fringe of political decisions.
The Climate Strike movement shows us loud and clear that youth not only care about climate change, but that it needs to be brought to the table to cement their vote.
I helped write the IPCC 1.5°C report the number apparently comes from. But the truth is better – and worse – than that.
Climate change is an emergency which will hurt the planet's most vulnerable people – the only irrational response is cool detachment.
The 1930s New Deal created a civilian army of conservationists who planted forests and restored wilderness.
The school strikes are a serious moral challenge to climate inaction, but they must overcome certain challenges to maintain momentum.
How can the climate strikers' demands of system change be met?
Facing up to the horror of climate change can help us work towards a more sustainable culture. Young people are leading the way.
What's the best thing I can do to help the climate? How long is the planet going to last? These questions and more answered by a climate scientist.
Climate change will hit young people hardest, yet they cannot access the democratic processes that adults take for granted.
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PhD Researcher in Science Communication, Australian National University
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UNSW
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Lecturer in Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Leader of ECI Climate Research Programme, University of Oxford
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Professor of Earth Science and Climate Change, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW
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Professor in Social Ecology and Ecological Economics, University of Leeds
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Reader in Philosophy, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor Munk School of Global Affairs and Co-director Environmental Governance Lab, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon
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Assistant Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Trinity College Dublin
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PhD candidate, University of St Andrews
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Research Fellow in Physical Climate Change, University of Leeds
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Sydney
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Principal Lecturer and Environmental Programme Manager, University of Portsmouth
