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Vancouver students strike to fight climate change
By Matthew Asuncion
GSS Editor
VANCOUVER, British Columbia— Students from kindergarten through university came out in full force on Friday, March 15, as part of a worldwide series of demonstrations protesting against the lack of action against climate change.
The first demonstration in the Greater Vancouver Area took place at the University of British Columbia – Point Grey.
Students from the UBC demonstration, along with hundreds of high school, middle school, and elementary school students, came together at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s North Plaza for the main protest.
At approximately 1:30 p.m, demonstrators walked to the offices of the federal government’s Environment Canada before returning to North Plaza.
With “thousands” of students walking out of school in cities across the U.S. and the world, UN Secretary General António Guterres called for world leaders to convene in New York in September “with concrete, realistic plans” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to “net zero” by 2050.
“My generation has failed to respond properly to the dramatic challenge of climate change,” Guterres wrote in The Guardian. “This is deeply felt by young people. No wonder they are angry.”
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