Right, so tomorrow there’s going to be a strike,
tomorrow morning there’s going to be a protest
for climate change, about the future and stuff
And people are striking off college to do it. -Oh yeah.
10 am in the morning at Preston train station.
Currently I feel I am quite alone in Preston with what I’m doing.
Nope.
Did you know about it firstly? -Nah.
-No. Did you? -No.
Are you going to the strike tomorrow? -Yes I am.
I would but, I need to get GCSE’s done.
No.
I honestly don’t think something like that would change
for a nine-year-old to come out of school.
If I gave you some facts and figures would you possibly change your mind about it?
Nah. -Alright.
The main light switch moment for me
was seeing that video on Facebook of Greta speaking
in front of all those different climate control ministers.
A 15-year-old girl standing up in front of a room full of people like that
and have the confidence to do that
it shows that everyone can do something like that,
maybe not on the same scale, but they can do it for their own local area.
There are a few people who knew a bit,
but the majority of people didn’t know about the protest tomorrow
and don’t really have opinions on climate change as it is now
which is unfortunate because of how big of a deal it actually is.
Over the next 10 years it might not do much.
It might get a bit warmer, we might start seeing a few more floods.
But after that there will be a point where it will be irreversible.
And when I do have children, I don’t want to see them grow up in a world like that.
Because the older generation, they’ve had the opportunity to do that.
They’ve been able to travel, they’ve been able to have children and have grandchildren,
experience what its like to be married and things like that
whereas we haven’t yet.
It’s been a bit of a downer being rejected by quite a lot of people.
If I was in London and I had more people backing me then yeah, I’d be more confident.
But I'm just nervous that, what if there isn’t a turnout?
What if no one turns up? What if it’s a complete failure?
Reporter: What’s your gut saying? How many people are around this corner?
I’ve no idea because I’ve not seen anyone on my way here.
we'll have to see when we get there.
I know there are at least five who are going to be there.
Reporter: How do you know that?
Because there are people who I was talking to yesterday
who were definitely sure they wanted to be here today
and said they were definitely coming.
Reporter: You ready? -Yeah.
This is really nerve-wracking.
Hahah, it’s not good. I can see people.
I can see some people; I don’t know how many people I can see.
Oh hello. You alright? -Yeah, why are you here?
Same reason you’re here I guess. That’s the same reason.
I don’t think this is it. I think they’ll be some more coming still.
I’m glad some people turned up.
It’s 10 people here, it’s 100 people in Manchester, and it’s 1,000 people in London.
The numbers add up and they all come together. At the end of the day,
At the end of the day the more people we can get,
that’s just going to make a bigger impact.
Look at it now, there are quite a lot of people here.
Are you surprised at how many people turned up?
To be honest I’m a bit disheartened at it.
I just thought that more people would show up.
At least 10 to 15 people have turned up
and there are people as young as like five, six years old who’ve turned up.
I will happily turn up again.
I don’t know how to describe the feeling that I’ve got, but I am happy.
even though its not thousands and thousands of people in Westminster Square,
it’s making a difference still.