On the 29th, two of our strikers spoke at devon youth parliament’s climate forum about the green new deal and participatory democracy; this is their speech:
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The renowned biologist Sir David Attenborough once remarked that “An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfillment.”