{"id":10184,"date":"2019-05-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/article\/planet-climate-strike-american-capitol-student-20190524\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T00:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T08:50:19","slug":"climate-strike-american-capitol-student","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/environment\/2019\/05\/24\/climate-strike-american-capitol-student","title":{"rendered":"This 16-Year-Old Is Taking the School Climate Strike to the U.S. Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the eve of the second worldwide climate strike, 16-year-old student climate activist Jerome Foster II got a buzz on his cell phone. It was a local tornado warning, the first he had ever received.<\/p>\n

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Foster, who is from Washington, D.C., had been explaining one of the challenges of organizing for climate action in the nation’s capital: it can be hard to take seriously the risk of extreme weather events in a place that doesn’t experience many. “We’re slightly above the hurricane level, but we’re below where huge winter storms occur,” Foster says. There aren’t many fires or floods, either. “That’s the most common thing that I see … [the mindset that] we’re not ever going to be hit by climate change.”<\/p>\n

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@JeromeFosterII<\/a> speaking in front of the Supreme Court at today’s #Fridays4Future<\/a> #StudentClimateStrike<\/a>. His speech was passionate and awesome!
@AlexandriaV2005<\/a> @ClimateKristin<\/a> @studentclimate1<\/a> @Fridays4future<\/a>@ThisIsZeroHour<\/a> @zaynecowie<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/txxt6AFoPS<\/a><\/p>\n


\n— Valentina Ossa Yarrow (@ValentinaOssa11) May 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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