'We, the young people organizing and participating in a global strike this Friday, will not sit around and allow ignorance and inertia to win,' Katie Eder writes for CNNopinion
Katie Eder, 19, is the co-founder and executive director of Future Coalition, a national network of youth-led organizations and youth organizers. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author. View more opinion articles on CNN.
Climate change is the five-alarm fire that America's political leaders pretend not to see. They control the hoses and they can turn on the water, but so far, the most powerful people in our country are doing little to address an increasingly grim future. Katie EderWe, the young people organizing and participating in a global strike this Friday, will not sit around and allow ignorance and inertia to win. Global warming is raising temperatures worldwide in a more dramatic way than we've seen at any time in the past 2,000 years, according to a recent study published in Nature. While scientists at the United Nations say we may have a little over a decade to slow down the global rise in temperatures to 1.
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