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The adults havent been able to do anything against the climate change. So the high schoolers must act. After being inspired by a young Swedish girl, these Finnish girls are not going to school on Friday but instead will be standing in front of Parliament House demonstrating agains the climate change.
They are from Kauniainen regions high school.
School principal: "If you go for the demonstration, you are without permission staying out of school and that will be marked on your records"
The girls dont care, it is worse that nobody does anything against climate change than some school record which says you werent there in the school on a school day without a good reason.
The girls reason it this way:
”I'm not old enough to vote so I will demonstrate in front of Parliament House", said Finnish girl Cecilia Andersin
Her friends Emilia Hanhirova and Laura Ylinen are part of team of 10 who will all going to the demo. Actually they are the ones organizing it.
Finlands climate has already warmed up +2 degrees Celcius and people are getting worried.
”While teenagers dont use Facebook much, all adults do, so we are advertising it on the Facebook", Andersin told.
There is right now 700 "interested" persons marked on the climate change demo.
The shcool principal of GYMNASIET Grankulla Samskolan, Finnish man Niklas Wahlström says that while it is good that students take climate change seriously, they are choosing the wrong methods of showing it. Demonstrating on a weekend would be fine, they wouldnt be out of school then.