21/09/2019 - Environment | Mainstorming

IAS Parliament 5 years

KEY POINTS

· Students in more than 2,000 cities across the world are holding demonstrations under the FridaysforFuture movement, protesting inaction towards climate change.

· In a parallel movement, millions of adults will be joining them in the Global ClimateStrike. While students will be walking out of classrooms, adults will be walking out of their workplaces and homes.

· Environmental activists participate in a Global Climate Strike near the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment office in Bangkok, Thailand

· In the present phase of the strikes, students are demanding “urgent” and “decisive” action in order to keep global average temperatures from rising above 1.5 degree Celsius.

Criticisms of the international community

· The global school movements began in 2015. Under this strike, students were urged to skip school and join other protestors. The strike was meant to be a “wake-up call” for the young generation. Their demands at that time were to stop the extraction of fossil fuels and to make the transition to 100 per cent clean energy.

· A globally coordinated action by the young generation to answer the inability of the old generations to solve the climate issue.

Why are students protesting this time?

· Even though climate change affects everyone, the present generation of youngsters are the ones who are going to be bearing the brunt of it in the coming decades.

· The sentiments behind these school student movements are the “broken promises” of older generations, members of which continue to extract and use fossil fuels, leading to increased CO2 emissions and subsequently, increasing average global temperatures.

· “They promised to cut CO2 emissions but they have not done their assigned task . Instead, they keep digging and drilling for more coal, oil and gas.

· Distrust of political leaders among the younger generation is also a reason why they feel the need to take things into their own hands.

· Youths are now taking the legal route. In 2015, young plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit, Juliana vs. United States against the US government for violating their constitutional rights by allowing the presence of dangerous emissions.

Jefy 5 years

Kindly review

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IAS Parliament 5 years

Good attempt. Try to avoid listing out points and stick to the word limit. Keep Writing.

musabbir 5 years

KINDLY REVIEW, Intentionally i wrote the last point and kindly suggest if it can be replaced by Amazon forest fire negligence by economic hunger at the cost of exploiting the lungs of the Earth

IAS Parliament 5 years

Try to elaborate more on criticisms of international community. Yes you can add about Amazon forest fire incident it is also a criticism on international community. Keep Writing.

musabbir 5 years

Sir , in view of the word limit i could not write more and elaborate much , thank you sir for guiding