Reader's Blog: Climate change activism will cool with age
After watching some young people interviewed on the Late Late Show, who are determined to make climate change activism their latest campaign, I discussed with my teenage granddaughter if she supported the laudable actions of her peers in missing valuable school classes to go on such protest marches in which they wished to highlight our Government’s inactivity in preventing global warming — a schoolkids’ strike which incidentally has the support of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar himself.
Of course she did! Then I put forward an idea. Every student of her school and schools across the country would sign a promise to “never drive a car or travel in an aeroplane during their lifetime”, to save the environment for future generations.
