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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Anjali Sharma

Dear politicians, young climate activists are not abuse victims, we are children who read news

Climate change protesters in Prince Alfred Park Sydney at the School Strike for Climate in May 2021
‘We’re children who have read the news, who have seen climate impacts devastate their families and friends. We’ve read the science.’ Photograph: Richard Milnes/REX/Shutterstock

For the last few months, children such as myself have only had to turn on our TVs to see images of people stranded on their roofs hoping to be rescued by the State Emergency Service. Opening the Instagram app reveals how the Great Barrier Reef has just suffered its sixth mass coral bleaching. And “once in a hundred year” floods seem to happen just a bit too often.

For some of us, it hits home on a personal level too.

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