Silchar joins along with rest of the country in the campaign against ‘Global Climate Strike’

September 20: With world leaders about to gather in New York for a UN Climate Action Summit next week, millions of young people from over 2000 cities around the world took to the streets to demand urgent measures to stop environmental catastrophe. The youth of Silchar also joined this campaign and held a demonstration at the pedestal of Khudiram Statue on Friday evening.

The campaign is an attempt to raise voice against global inaction and apathy towards climate change. The Global Climate Strike, which took several Indian cities by a storm today, will continue till 27 September. It commences just before the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019 takes place on 23 September.

In 2018, Greta Thunberg, teen climate activist, sat for three weeks outside the Swedish Parliament to protest against a lack of measures to combat climate change. She then started the tradition of holding a strike on every Friday till something was done; soon, students around the world began to follow suit and hold protests in front of their Parliament, hoping this would make their voices heard.

Following the worldwide phenomenon of holding protest, young boys and girls were seen to protest holding placards and raising slogans to save the environment at the pedestal of Khudiram Statue at Silchar.