Schoolchildren Swarm 60 Towns And Cities In Huge Climate Change Protest

Other signs read: “When did the children become the adults?” and “Why should I clean my room when the world is in such a mess”.

At one protest outside Cambridgeshire County Council’s offices, a demonstrator led chants of “Whose future? Our future” and “Hey, ho, fossil fuels have got to go.”

The students are demanding the government declare a climate emergency and take active steps to tackle the problem, as well as communicating the serious dangers of the ecological crisis to the public.

They are also calling for reform to the curriculum to make it an educational priority.

They join students in the US, Australia, The Netherlands and Uganda to call for greater action on global warming, in actions inspired by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.