there's other girls (and boys) like her spearheading the same movement in various western european countries. each country seems to have its own figure head. Greta THUNberg started it all though
in the previous academic year I had about one student in five on average missing out on classes, one in three at the height of the movement, going out on protest marches in the capital, close to a year in total
media coverage was fierce and the climate change subject was the hot issue in national politics for a while, only fizzling out shortly before election time in May. the movement is picking up speed again since the new guhments (we have plenty of them, too hard to explain) are not including any new climate related policy in their overall plans
below's the girl spearheading the movement in Flanders, Belgium
the movement is clearly being supported by and advised by the green party and communication management firms. it shows in the way the marches were transformed along the way. from national marches in the capital to local marches in other big cities, from students to pupils to grandparents. it shows in the way they engage the media too
round here companies can include a car and fuel in their wages for employees. one of the demands of this protest movement was for politics to forbid companies from paying employees in cars, so to speak. Cars, fuel but also mobile phones, laptops etc have a lower tax rate and therefore are a more profitable way for companies to pad their pay out to employees, rather than simply giving employees a rise in $$$. the protest movement wants to have this beneficial fiscal plan taken down
when political parties and more importantly their voters realised this, the green party lost out in the election in May and the protest movement temporarily lost traction. voters do not want to have their firm paid car taken away from them
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