Jamie Margolin, a high school student, speaks during a rally by youth activists and others in Seattle in support of a high-profile climate change lawsuit in federal court in Eugene, Ore.
Posted on 04/20/2020 2:55:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Jamie Margolin had not expected to be sitting in her bedroom right now.
The high school senior had prom and graduation coming up, but so much more: A multi-state bus campaign with fellow climate activists. A tour for her new book. Attendance at one of the massive marches that had been planned this week for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.
Then the pandemic arrived in Seattle, her hometown, and her plans went out the window.
“But still so much to do,” Margolin said, perched in front of her computer for a video interview from that bedroom.
Like many other young activists who’ve helped galvanize what’s become a global climate movement, Margolin is not letting a spreading virus stop her. They are organizing in place, from the United States to Ecuador, Uganda, India and beyond.
And while some fear they’ve lost some momentum in the pandemic, they are determined to keep pushing - and for now, to use technology to their advantage.
Unable to gather en masse as they’d planned this Earth Day, these activists are planning livestreams and webinars to keep the issue of climate front and center on the world stage and in the U.S. presidential race.
One event, Earth Day Live, is being organized by a coalition of youth-led climate groups, including Zero Hour, of which Margolin is a leader (her Twitter profile includes the tag #futurepotus). As is the case with many other young climate activists, she got involved in the movement taking aim at the fossil fuel industry well before Sweden’s Greta Thunberg became a global household name.
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Jamie Margolin, a high school student, speaks during a rally by youth activists and others in Seattle in support of a high-profile climate change lawsuit in federal court in Eugene, Ore.
L8r
Where is the vomit and hurl alert?
The cold open - about a cold nobody.
good luck, Jamie:
17 Apr: Fox News: Swath of snow to bring wintry blast from Rockies to Northeast
By Travis Fedschun
It may be spring, but a blast of winter weather is on a cross-country trip this week.
The National Weather Service’s (NWS) Weather Prediction Center said a swath of snow will impact regions from the Rockies to the Northeast from Thursday into Friday.
“A narrow streak of heavy accumulating snow is possible from the Central Plains into the Lower Great Lakes and Interior Northeast, after leaving the Central Rockies and Denver metro area,” forecasters said.
According to the WPC, heavy snow is in the forecast for the central Rockies, where between 8 and 18 inches of fresh snow may fall across northern Colorado.
As the system moves east over the Central Plains, a band of “light to moderate wet snow” is in the forecast from Nebraska to the Northeast by Friday night, and into New England in the overnight hours...
https://www.foxnews.com/us/winter-weather-snow-band-storm-rockies-northeast-midwest
20 Apr: Accuweather: Multiple seasons collide in Northeast, bringing snow, thunderstorms and wind
By Courtney Spamer
“The cold front sweeping through the Great Lakes and Northeast Monday night and Tuesday will be a powerful one,” said AccuWeather Meteorologist Jake Sojda...
Temperatures in the region will fall from near normal to 5-10 degrees Fahrenheit below normal...
The coldest air will hold over northern Wisconsin and northern Michigan, allowing for flakes to fly Monday night...
https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/multiple-seasons-collide-in-northeast-bringing-snow-thunderstorms-and-wind/724493
20 Apr: Daily Mail: Australia’s ski resorts prepare for the best snow season in years - but they may be unable to open at all if social distancing measures are not relaxed
By Alana Mazzoni
Ski instructor Dean Sheppard said it was unfortunate the ‘best snow season in a long time’ could pass with resorts unable to open due to the COVID-19 crisis...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8235933/Australias-ski-resorts-prepare-bumper-snow-season-coronavirus-measures-relaxed.html
Taking full advantage of capitalism - which they wish to eliminate. Huh.
Climate activism is like Instagram for leftist nerds. Everybody wants to be the next Greta.
Looks like old whats-his-name from Germany has the hots for Jamie.
the climate
pandemics
will never be defeated
“Jamie Margolin had not expected to be sitting in her bedroom right now”
She probably still has her childhood stuffed animal toys strewn about in her cute little vintage “Holly Hobby”-style bedroom.
>> A multi-state bus campaign with fellow climate activists.
that can’t be good for the environment
just teleconference, rube
What kind of climate activist goes to the prom? Is thee a special table where all the other activists sit and talk about the cool kids?
>>And while some fear they’ve lost some momentum in the pandemic, they are determined to keep pushing - and for now, to use technology to their advantage.
>>Unable to gather en masse as they’d planned this Earth Day, these activists are planning livestreams and webinars to keep the issue of climate front and center on the world stage and in the U.S. presidential race.
COLLUSION!
where is facebook??
where is the feckless fec???
Fueled by the libtard parents of these kids.
I heard one on NPR that was worried about ‘the movement’.
On the radio last night the “travel show” had some National Geographic virtue signaling guy talking about “environmentally friendly” international travel.
Was he talking about using sailboats?
Nope.
Jets, hotels, rental cars, the usual....just doing outdoors activities _after_ you traveled halfway around the world.
What a clown!
Looking at her RAT face makes me want to hurl. Ugh
POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)
“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”
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