Young people, inspired by Greta Thunberg, rally to press politicians to act on climate change – follow live updates Students have been protesting outside the energy ministry in Kiev. According to the Climate Action Tracker, Ukraine’s policies to tackle climate change are “critically insufficient” to help keep warming within 2C above pre-industrial levels. “From following the Pied Piper into a medieval forest to sailing off with Pinocchio to Pleasure Island to shoplifting candy from Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, children tend to make bad choices, which is why we don’t let them run things,” says Paul Tice, one of the people not cheering on the young people striking for climate action today. In an opinion article for The Wall Street Journal, Tice, an investment manager and professor of finance at New York University, says: “In the summer of 1212, thousands of divinely inspired young people from across Catholic France and Germany took off to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims. None made it to the Holy Land. Many died along the way or were sold into slavery. The Children’s Crusade was a disaster. Yet environmental activists and politicians are adopting the same ‘a child shall lead them’ strategy to push their climate change agenda.” Continue reading... |