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[kids chanting] Climate action!
When do we want it?
Now!
As Greta Thunberg said,
we have not come here to beg politicians for change.
We have come here to show them that change is coming.
[cheering]
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I'm Sophia Mathur.
I'm 11 years old, and I'm from Sudbury, Ontario.
If adults don't give a damn for my future, why should I?
I was Canada's first climate striker
Because I got to Greta pretty early.
I watched her YouTube videos,
and I started to strike in November.
You say you love your children above all else,
and yet you're stealing their future
in front of their very eyes.
Andrew Chang: A 15 year old in Sweden
has missed class every Friday since August
to sit outside her country's parliament,
and she's been calling on others around the world to do the same.
Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people
to give them hope, but I don't want your hope.
I don't want you to be hopeful.
I want you to panic.
I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
And then I want you to act.
What do you want to do to help?
I just want to be alive in 50 years.
That's good.
Alive in 50 years.
My name is Alik Volkov.
I'm from Thornhill, Ontario, and I'm 17 years old.
I feel like grown ups don't understand,
like, the necessity of doing strikes like this.
I feel like they don't understand how important
climate change is as an issue worldwide
and because they keep telling us to study for a future,
but, like, what futures?
My name is Zoe.
I am 12 years old, and I'm from Toronto.
Greta Thunberg inspiring me a lot,
and for a long time I'd wanted to do something
big about climate change,
but I never knew what.
But this seems like something I could do.
It's important that kids take the lead because
we can't vote
and the grown ups are kind of deciding our future for us
which is not fair.
And-- and also, people listen to kids.
I'm Serafina Bennett.
I am 9 years old, and I'm from Toronto, Ontario.
Lot of people are like,
"Oh, what about the people in the oil industry,
in the electronic industry, and the paper industry?"
Well, it doesn't really matter what job you have
if you're dead.
So...
[children chanting]
We demand the world's decision makers listen to the experts
and take responsibility to solve this crisis.
People and animals have died, are dying, and will die,
because of the climate crisis.
No more coal! No more oil!
Keep your carbon in the soil!
[chanting] No more coal. No more oil.
Keep your carbon in the soil!
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[chanting] We need change! We need change!
[chanting in alternate language]
We want it now!
[chanting]
♪ We will, we will, rock you ♪
The youth have risen!
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