Global climate strike: Greta Thunberg and school students lead climate crisis protest – live updates – The Guardian

It’s important that I lend my voice to this cause … a lot of people who aren’t as privileged as I am don’t have the opportunity to speak out against these sorts of issues, who live where the air is unbreathable, where toxic waste is dumped in rivers, those people don’t have a voice to speak out … Also I am here to educate people about these issues and to get as much information from as many different places as I can … I am going to try to diversify the way that I raise awareness … I am going to use my social media a lot more effectively, I am going to centre my conversations with my friends, I am going to bring it up at the dinner table with my family … because if every person tells one person then we can tell everybody.