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Protest against green destruction today
Students from ‘Teach for India’ classrooms on Friday will be marching in solidarity to boycott the destruction of KBR Park and to express their deepest concerns against global warming.
Hyderabad: Students from 'Teach for India' classrooms on Friday will be marching in solidarity to boycott the destruction of KBR Park and to express their deepest concerns against global warming.
Under the guidance of Teach for India Fellow, Arpit Sharma, the campaign is designed, primarily for students who are making an impassioned plea to city denizens to join the protest against the indiscriminate depletion of green cover in cities that are growing fast.
The protest is part of global movement initiated by a 16-year-old Swedish girl Greta Thunberg, who skipped her school on Fridays and protested alone in front of Swedish Parliament against climate change.
Taking cue from this movement, students from Teach for India schools are leveraging social media to gain a larger support from public and have also, all by themselves, sought permissions from the City Police Commissioner for organising the protest.
Listen to their appeal to participate in the global campaign.
Arpit Sharma, Teach for India Fellow says, "We have to educate these young champions enough about global warming lest their very existence will be threatened.
KBR Park is the only carbon sink in the city and any damage of this ecosystem will have disastrous, far reaching consequences.
Children are harbingers of change and our only hope and for them to be championing these global issues, it is imperative that they start young and make their voice heard."
His students, Mahesh and Lohitakesh who are leading this protest from the front say, "What we need our Government to understand is that everything they do today comes at a price for future generations. We are not doing this for fun, but because we don't have a choice.
The adults have failed us, and we now need to take things in our own hands. Honestly, we would rather demand climate action than go to school. Otherwise, years from now, we may no longer be here.
The future of our planet is looking really bleak. We have to wake them up, and I think thousands of kids on the streets will do just that."
The global protest on March 15 is planned in more than 100 cities in the US alone. More than 100,000 students will be on strike and this will be the largest of its kind in the world till date.
