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18 03 2019 | 11:34

Don’t you just love them and feel proud that they turned out as they did

IN SPITE of us?

 

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An inflatable planet Earth is bounced around the crowd during a climate change awareness rally at Sydney town hall in Australia
Photograph: Don Arnold/Getty Images
 
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Students hold placards as they protest near the Queen Victoria memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London
Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/​​​Getty Images

 

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Demonstrations get under way in Canterbury, Kent. In the UK, events are taking place in about 100 towns and cities
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA​​​/Getty Images

 

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Thousands of pupils from schools, colleges and universities are walking out to take part in the second major strike against climate change this year
Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Images

 

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Students gather with their signs in London. They are calling on the government to declare a climate emergency
Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Images
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Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg participates in the demonstration in central Stockholm, Sweden
Photograph: Tt News Agency/Reuters

 

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Students from Braeburn Garden Estate school chant during a march in Karura forest in Nairobi
Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

 

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Polish students in Warsaw protest in a country that relies heavily on coal-powered energy. Warsaw
Photograph: Jakub Kamiński/EPA

 

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Greek demonstrators march in Athens
Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images
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Italian students gather in front of Milan’s Duomo
Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/EPA
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A student in Barcelona issues a rallying cry
Photograph: Lluís Gené/AFP/Getty Images
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South African students brandish protest signs in Cape Town
Photograph: Mike Hutchings/Reuters
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Participants in Düsseldorf, Germany, gather around a carnival float depicting Greta Thunberg
Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters
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Scottish students gather on a hillside before marching to the parliament building in Edinburgh
Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA
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Protesters in Berlin raise their hands to reveal the words: “Our future in your hands”
Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images
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Students stage a sit-in in New Delhi, India
Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP
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Activists in New Zealand chant in front of the parliament building in Wellington
Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images
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In front of the Coliseum in Rome, students hold placards reading: “Earth is warming”, “we can’t drink, we can’t breathe”, “let’s raise our voices, not the sea level” and “we will study the past if you give us a future”
Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images
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Students in Hong Kong take their message to the streets
Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
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Girls wave signs and shout slogans in Athens, Greece
Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images
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Thousands of Dublin students march from St Stephen’s Green to Leinster House
Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
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A huge crowd gathers in Lisbon, Portugal
Photograph: Rafael Marchante/Reuters
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Edinburgh, Scotland
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Wellington, New Zealand
Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images
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Wellington, New Zealand
Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images
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Sydney, Australia
Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP
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Sydney, Australia
Photograph: James Gourley/Getty Images
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Melbourne, Australia
Photograph: Ellen Smith/AAP
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Brisbane, Australia
Photograph: Dan Peled/EPA
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Tokyo, Japan
Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA
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Hong Kong, China
Photograph: Alex Hofford/EPA
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Kolkata, India
Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA
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Lausanne, Switzerland
‘The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything – Albert Einstein’
Photograph: Jean-Christophe Bott/EPA
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Cape Town, South Africa
Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA
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Rome, Italy
Students hold a papier-mache panda, an inflatable Earth and a placard reading: ‘Time is running out’
Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images
 
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Nice, France
Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters
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Berlin, Germany
Photograph: Felipe Trueba/EPA
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Paris, France
Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
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Vienna, Austria
The placard says: ‘The climate is more hopeless than my high school graduation’
Photograph: Georg Hochmuth/AFP/Getty Images
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Düsseldorf, Germany
Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters
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Athens, Greece
Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images
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Nice, France
Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters
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Edinburgh, Scotland
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Madrid, Spain
Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters
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Bangalore, India
Photograph: Jagadeesh Nv/EPA
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Cape Town, South Africa
Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA
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London, UK
Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
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Warsaw, Poland
Photograph: Czarek Sokołowski/AP
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Barcelona, Spain
Photograph: Lluís Gené/AFP/Getty Images
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Paris, France
Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images
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Turin, Italy
Photograph: Giulio Lapone/Sync/AGF/Rex/Shutterstock
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Berlin, Germany
Photograph: Felipe Trueba/EPA
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London, UK
Photograph: Isabel Infantes/AFP/Getty Images
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Milan, Italy
Photograph: Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via Zuma Press/Rex/Shutterstock
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Brighton, UK
Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
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Dresden, Germany
Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA
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Lisbon, Portugal
Photograph: Horacio Villalobos/Corbis/Getty Images
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Berlin, Germany
Photograph: Annegret Hilse/Reuters

 

 

Source: 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2019/mar/15/global-climate-strike-students-take-to-the-streets-in-pictures?CMP=fb_gu&fbclid=IwAR2UnhTpghJAVa4hdKk2ymyzIQJvnH7oMIU3SmQ3ryFUxFzG_KpAbURB3BY

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2019/mar/15/best-placards-from-global-climate-strike?CMP=fb_gu&fbclid=IwAR3Iq34dTb3T0qqqRoUQMTwxg4WfUIIAszi7ISwGfuUJR20TWPeICtk05VI

 

 

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