Letters
Students’ self-directed climate change school excursion
Ed,
Last Friday there was a great Australia-wide turn- out of our school students who were voicing their concerns at our government’s lack of action to adequately address climate change.
The point some many thousands of students were making on their Friday educational excursions was that as school students they don’t yet have a vote in their future. And their futures are becoming increasing threatened by recent and on-going climate extremes such as bushfires and extreme rainfall events.
And the doleful comments by a prominent Queensland politician condemning this student activism will only strengthen these students’ determination to try to ensure we change direction so we don’t end up where we are heading.
Today Australia’s school students are well aware of the threats posed by climate change to the world they will inherit from us. And we will be hearing a lot more from these articulate school students until we elect politicians who value their own children as much as they value themselves and act accordingly.
But what a shame that Australia’s school students believe we adults are so poorly educated about the threats climate change poses that collectively they have had to take a day off school to voice their concerns.
Harry Johnson,
Iluka