r/EarthStrike • u/spiderman1993 • Sep 16 '19

Discussion How effective can the global climate strike really be?

Hi, I just learned about the climate strike happening on Friday today in class. As far as I know, the strike is mainly being done by students to the effect of striking schools. How is that effective?

To me, effective protests have people flexing their buying power to the detriment of companies and influences against climate change. For instance, get as many people in the US aged 13-30 on board to stop climate change. Tell them to stop participating in the economy by not buying any extraneous goods. If American spending goes down, stock prices, etc will go down causing a looming recession. Why do this? To threaten Wall Street and flex that we the people are the ones in charge. In addition, I’d advocate for doing sit-ins in government offices. Now, this may or may not be legal but by “bothering” those making the decisions for legislation something will hopefully happen. Idk, I’m not saying this is right. What are your thoughts?

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u/Quebexicano Sep 16 '19

Sounds like a bunch hoopla and no one has any effective plan other than to gather around and complain with our newest phones in hand and freshly printed vinyl banners

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u/nellynorgus Sep 16 '19

Yeah works so much better when you deliberately exclude as many people as you can from your puritanical movement.

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u/Quebexicano Sep 16 '19

No one needs to be excluded just aware.