{"id":230878,"date":"2019-09-14T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=230878"},"modified":"2019-09-14T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T08:42:09","slug":"greta-thunberg-brings-environmental-campaign-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/14\/greta-thunberg-brings-environmental-campaign-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta Thunberg brings environmental campaign to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_225002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225002\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/67402663_875350129499475_6533454669572734976_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225002\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/67402663_875350129499475_6533454669572734976_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/67402663_875350129499475_6533454669572734976_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/67402663_875350129499475_6533454669572734976_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/67402663_875350129499475_6533454669572734976_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Thank you to all the thousands who came to the climate strike in Berlin today! And thank you to FridaysForFuture Berlin for organising! (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gretathunbergsweden\/photos\/a.733630957004727\/875350122832809\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gretathunbergsweden\/\">Greta Thunberg\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who helped spark a youth-driven push for climate change, has come to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Thunberg and about 1,500 protesters, many of them schoolchildren, marched and chanted near the White House on Friday. They are calling for immediate action from the world&#8217;s governments to halt global warming, reduce fossil fuel consumption and avert environmental catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can&#8217;t breathe money, you can&#8217;t drink oil,\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n<p>Thunberg, 16, gained international attention by inspiring a series of protests and school strikes. Her activism has drawn a passionate following of children essentially challenging their elders to take action. For veteran environmental activists, that means renewed media attention and a fresh wave of passionate young volunteers pushing for change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Greta has brought is a unified international presence for youth,\u201d said Natalie Mebane, policy director for the environmental group 350.org, which helped organize Friday&#8217;s protest. \u201cShe&#8217;s created an international youth voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Thunberg crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a solar-powered boat, landing in New York City on Aug. 28. She is in Washington, D.C., for several days of rallies and lobbying efforts in advance of a global climate strike declared for Sept. 20 to kick off a week of activism.<\/p>\n<p>Thunberg will address the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York on Sept. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who helped spark a youth-driven push for climate change, has come to Washington. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":225002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-ashraf-khalil","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230880,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230878\/revisions\/230880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}