Climate change is one of the biggest problems humanity is faced with. Citizens across the world have risen up to appeal to their various governments to respond to the dire climate crisis. Fossil fuel companies across the globe have harmed the environment, and young people have now had enough.

Today, the UN Climate Change Summit is taking place in New York, and people are calling on fossil fuels to remain in the ground and put laws in place that make it a requirement for countries to use only clean, renewable energy. Protests have sprung up across Cape Town and the world, calling for climate change to be come to an end for good.

 

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