Hundreds of thousands of students around the world skipped school to protest climate change inaction. Last Friday, cause-driven teens marched and rallied in major cities, like Rome, Hong Kong, Kenya, and Washington D.C. The event was inspired by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg’s once-solitary weekly strike in front of Sweden’s parliament and the #FridaysForFuture movement. Global warming consistently makes YPulse’s list of causes Gen Z cares about, and they’re trying to make it a must-talk-about topic for politicians too. (BuzzFeed News, Forbes)
