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May 24, 2019

Record Number of Students Walk Out of Classes in Global Strike for the Climate
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And youth activists in cities around the world have launched another
one-day global climate strike that could rival a March 15 action that
saw an estimated 1.6 million participants. Organizers, inspired by
16-year-old Swedish high school student Greta Thunberg, say they're
planning more than 1,350 separate strikes in every continent on Earth
today-including two strikes in Antarctica. This is 19-year-old activist
Marta Macías from Madrid, Spain.

Marta Macías: "It's estimated we have 11 years before climate change is
irreversible. And if we don't take the necessary measures over these 11
years, we will end up without a planet. I want to defend my life on this
planet, as well as the survival of my species and all of the other
species that live on it."



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