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Greta Thunberg’s School Strike Goes Global

History Daily

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4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

March 15, 2019. 1.4 million people, most of them teenagers, take to the streets in cities around the world to protest government inaction against climate change.


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com. It's March 15, 2019, at a small clothing.

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It's March 15, 2019 at a small clothes store in Central Belfast, Northern Ireland.

0:28.0

The store's owner rearranges a dress on a mannequin and the window display.

0:32.0

It's a typical Friday.

0:34.0

A few customers wander the street outside,

0:36.0

but it's nothing like the busy weekends

0:38.0

when youngsters to send on the city center

0:40.0

to check out the latest fashions.

0:42.0

As the manager smooths out a garment, though, he hears the distance sound of chanting

0:47.0

echoed down the street outside.

0:48.0

Sounds like hundreds of voices shouting and they're getting closer.

0:52.0

The man can't see much out of the

0:55.0

window so he leaves the mannequins and climbs out of the display.

0:58.4

exchanging confused glances with a colleague he goes to the front door and peers out down the street.

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The store owner immediately sees the source of all the noise, a huge group of

1:10.3

teenagers. The man watches nervously as the crowd approaches hoping they aren't here

1:15.2

to make trouble. But as the teenagers come closer, the store owner reads the signs they're

1:20.2

carrying. There's no Planet B, and denial gets us nowhere.

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