The members of a youth climate strike group were ‘disappointed’ with low public attention on climate change amid the coronavirus crisis panic.
Sheffield Youth Strike 4 Climate organized a strike one week before the lockdown with less than fifty demonstrators, impressing the importance to overcome climate change as well as encouraging more engagement into the protest.
Rachel Crothers, a speaker of the group, said: “We must keep going, we must keep striking. Climate change has been killing people for years, all over the world has ignored it.
“We’re disappointed how only now when we in the first world find ourselves inconvenient where we care, where we call for government action when the suffering and death is so little compared to what has already been caused by climate change.
“After seeing the panic come forward this, I can only imagine how the world would react if we begin to see the worst effect of climate change.”
‘Sheffield Climate Umbrella Climate Group’ formed by the youth group and other local campaign groups was working as part of the Sheffield Coronavirus Action Committee to demand a proper transition online.
Molly Cowell, the group delegate, said: “There should be a sense of the increasing urgency of the issue as we’ve seen the extent of tragedy of a global crisis.
“So whilst there’s anxiety, there’s also hope for the change and the knowledge that we won’t give up.”
The planning of local virtual strikes by the youth group is in the process.
Part members of Sheffield Youth Strike 4 Climate
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**The two teenagers mentioned in the story are some of members who formed the initial group, they are named under the permission of their parents; the children who appeared in the video as interviewees joined after the group was organized, they are anonymous as their teachers required.
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