‘Six million people have taken to the streets over the past week, uniting across timezones, cultures and generations to demand urgent action on the escalating ecological emergency.’

Source:  Climate crisis: 6 million people join latest wave of global protests| The Guardian

‘In mid-2019, new wind and solar generators competed efficiently against even existing nuclear power plants in cost terms, and grew generating capacity faster than any other power type, the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) showed.’

Source: Nuclear energy too slow, too expensive to save climate: report | Reuters

‘…But despite the protests in the streets, China on Monday made no new promises to take stronger climate action. The United States, having vowed to pull out of the Paris Agreement, the pact among nations to jointly fight climate change, said nothing at all. A host of countries made only incremental promises.’

Source: At U.N. Climate Summit, Few Commitments and U.S. Silence | The New York Times

September 20, 2019, San Francisco

Students from around the bay area skipped class to participate in the Global Student Climate Strike in San Francisco.  Here’s a video of the march.

‘Millions of people from Sydney to Manila, Dhaka to London and New York are marching for urgent action on climate breakdown’

Source: Global climate strike: Greta Thunberg and school students lead climate crisis protest – live updates | The Guardian

Source: Global climate strikes kick off ahead of UN summit on climate change | Euronews

‘They are in open revolt.

Anxious about their future on a hotter planet, angry at world leaders for failing to arrest the crisis, thousands of young people began pouring into the streets on Friday for a day of global climate protest.’

Source: Protesting Climate Change, Young People Take to Streets in a Global Strike | The New York Times

‘…On the 20th, we are planning a new global strike. And we call for people of all ages to join us, not just children. Adults are, of course, welcome, as well, to strike from their work. And so, I will be in New York the 20th of September to join the strike here. And then, on the 27th, there is also a global strike.’ ~ Greta Thunberg with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now

Source: “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg | Democracy Now

‘The UN secretary general says that he is counting on public pressure to compel governments to take much stronger action against what he calls the climate change “emergency”.’

Source: ‘We’re losing the race’: UN secretary general calls climate change an ’emergency’ | The Nation

‘…By 2100, average temperatures could rise 7.0 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels if carbon emissions continue unabated, separate models from two leading research centres in France showed.’

Source: Earth warming more quickly than thought, new climate models show | phys.org