Earlier this week I wrote a blog here accusing children who were planning to take part in today’s Youth4Climate march of wanting to play truant. I realise now that I may have been a little harsh on them. Having read and heard what they have been saying and posting this morning, I fear that some of them at least may be suffering from trauma. They are victims of the hyperbole they have been fed constantly ever since they were born.
Here, for example, is 10 year old Zane: ‘The reason I climate strike is because the Earth is burning before our very eyes’. According to Hannah, from Birmingham, ‘there is no point in going to school if we have no future’. Lottie tells BBC Breakfast ‘if we don’t strike now then we are getting educated for a future that we don’t know is going to exist in the way it does now’.
These are quite disturbed statements.
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