Students and school pupils joined the first large global youth climate strike, with marches in Paris and many other French cities. The mobilization drew on school strikes inspired by Greta Thunberg and challenged governments over climate inaction. Young activists linked the climate emergency to intergenerational justice; a decolonial analysis also asks how climate harms, extraction and the costs of transition are distributed unequally across the Global North and South, including France's overseas territories.
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What did young climate strikers call attention to on 15 March 2019?
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The youth strike urged governments to respond to the climate emergency.
The youth climate strike called attention to climate inaction.
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Students and pupils mobilized to demand action on the climate emergency.