“This is our future.”
“There is no Planet B.”
Last minute, I was able to attend the Climate Strike on September 20th. I didn’t have a sign or a shirt or anything fancy: I simply had my self and my camera, to show up, to add to the numbers, and to bear witness through my film. Upon arrive, I got choked up at the amount of teens there. Everyone from punk kids to VSCO girls. When I was their age, I didn’t think climate change was a big deal and honest, I was probably too self-absorbed (and privileged) to care about anything that policitcal. To hear teenagers speak articulately in front of such a large crowd gives me hope that, despite all of this, empathy still exists and maybe things like climate change and the mental health crisis don’t have to keep getting worse. Maybe it can get better. Maybe it will.
“Climate change is a global emergency.”
I’m nowhere near competent on this issues and I’m nowhere near living a fully sustainable life, but I hope that I will keep learning and growing and maybe that's just it: maybe if we do that, it can get better—and will.
“Things to do: feed the cat, eat breakfast, save the world!”
“Learn to change or learn to swim.”
“Live from Area 51. Be green, earthlings. Climate change impacts everything.”
There was a Greta Thunberg quote on this poster (but it’s hard to read here).
“Demand climate justice from the fossil fuel industries.”
“You know it’s bad when an old straight white guy is marching.”