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Climate change has got to go, hey

Scotland's first mass climate strike by school pupils took place in February 2019. A second followed in March.

School pupils all across the country walked out of classes to demand that world leaders take action against climate change.

People are seeing that all these people are out here and passionate about this subject.

And so I think people will, you know, see this and think, okay, right, I can make a difference.

And I'm going to make a difference.

Pretty quickly, this happened.

Today, as First Minister of Scotland, I am declaring that there is a climate emergency

and Scotland will live up to our responsibility to tackle it.

And yet a few weeks later, there was another environmental protest demanding pretty specific changes to the government's climate policy.

And they got nothing.

This is a special episode Podlitigal, BBC Scotland's podcast that gives you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. This is a special episode of Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast that gives an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster.

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I'm Phil Sim, a reporter at the Scottish Parliament.

I've been to dozens of protests here.

Big marches against Donald Trump and Brexit,

smaller ones over local issues like factory closures and rail services.

I've seen an MSP dressed up as a fox,

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