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Can what Greta Thunberg started expand its reach and effectiveness? I think so. Here’s how.
Even wealthy and powerful parents can’t wait for the grand kids. Let’s crush their hopes.
Kurt Vonnegut’s classic — and odd — anti-war novel “Slaughterhouse Five” is sub-titled “The Children’s Crusade.” It’s also one of my favorite books though, truth be told, I prefer “Cat’s Cradle.”
Nonetheless, here on Earth and in real life, there IS a children’s crusade, one that is important and inspiring. It is also a crusade that could up its game, and play an even more significant role in saving the world from climate collapse.
I am talking about Fridays for Future, a movement of children skipping school to protest the clueless destruction of the Earth by adults — especially adults in positions of authority. Greta has literally millions of followers on multiple continents. And she has made the authorities very uncomfortable.
But her movement has not stopped them. I would make a few suggestions on how she could — figuratively and ironically speaking — turn up the gas.
What Children Can Do
In most households, parents make the rules and children are compelled to obey. The parents decide what their children can and cannot do — while they live under the parent’s…
