In Chula Vista, high school students joined college and graduate students carrying signs demanding cleaner air and an end to the use of polluting fossil fuels.
A global day of climate action had young people take to the streets in San Diego county. Many got support from their schools for a climate strike.
“Our history has been washed and watered down,” said Priscilla Lachappa, 22, who is a community college student and the current reigning Miss Kumeyaay Nation. “Our riverbed and our mountain plants are not able to survive because it’s too hot in the mountains and it’s too dry down by the riverbeds,” she said.
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