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School Strike4Climate in Castlemaine - the next generation
Castlemaine is the home of the school strike movement in Australia. Seeing our kids give voice to climate was a proud moment for local parents. But two and a half years on the strike continues, with seemingly ever younger children carrying the baton.
Being an adult at successive school strike for climate rallies has a slightly surreal edge to it - each year I get older but the students stay the same age and not enough has changed - it’s like there is a rent in time and part of the world is lost inside of it…
I see other climate action supporters who are even older than me - it makes me wonder if I’ll still be going to school strike 4 climate rallies in thirty years time - what will it all look and feel like in 2050…
This reminded me that in Endgame’s cupboard we actually did have an interview by Rob about this very issue -
LISTEN TO ROB’S INTERVIEW WITH TERRY WHITE AND NEIL BARRETT LOCAL’S WHO HAVE 100 YEARS OF CLIMATE ACTIVISM BETWEEN THEM.
Today I look around at these beautiful young people - dressing up, laughing and riffing off one another as teens do - just like I did with my own friends at that age… only, at that age I did’t have to worry about the future of the planet and how I would survive it.
