THE CALL FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE

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20th September 2019
Kampala Uganda
Global Climate Strike
As young people who are still striving and expecting much more in the future, being threatened by the magnitude and impacts of climate change, our survival is at stake if the adverse effects of climate change is not controlled. 
It is accepted by the vast majority of scientists that the greenhouse effect which warms the earth is much increased by emission of vast amounts of carbon dioxide and some other gases by human activities. In the historical past the greenhouse effect, driven by volcanic and microbial carbon dioxide emission prevented the earth from being permanently encased in ice, but since humanity industrialized, atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased and is causing ever more harmful global warming and climate change. In support of the same cause, On 31 January 2019, more than 3400 scientists and academics signed an open letter in support of the school strikes in Belgium. The letter reads "On the basis of the facts supplied by climate science, the campaigners are right. That is why we, as scientists, support them." This was followed by an open letter in support of the school strikes in the Netherlands, signed by 340 scientists, and by 1200 researchers in Finland signing a letter, on 11 March 2019, supporting the strikes. An article published in Nature in March 2019 listed many other expressions of support, and no criticisms, from scientists, with comments such as "The idea of a climate strike is innovative. It’s provocative, and I think it’s the right form of non-violent civil disobedience". In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland a group of scientists founded Scientists for Future (S4F) in support of the factual correctness of the claims formulated by the movement. The statement was signed by over 26000 German-language scientists and scholars.
On 14 March 2019, the Club of Rome issued an official statement in support of Thunberg and the strikes, urging governments across the world to respond to this call for action and cut global carbon emissions. In June 2019, 1000 healthcare professionals in the UK and elsewhere, including professors, eminent public health figures, and former presidents of royal colleges, called for widespread non-violent civil disobedience in response to "woefully inadequate" government policies on the unfolding ecological emergency. They called on politicians and the news media to face the facts of the unfolding ecological emergency and take action and they supported the school strike movement. 
Adults in positions of authority, in the form of fossil fuel corporations and global governments, are seen as being responsible for large carbon dioxide emissions, and doing far too little to reduce them. It is for this reason therefore that we the threatened generation has to stand up and strike to limit more future unhealthy acts of this nature and the magnitude or rate of long-term global warming and its related effects. 
We are also calling on adults to join the young people to make our collective voice even louder because we are already hurting from the impacts of climate change.If we don’t act now to transition fairly and swiftly away from environmental hazards like coal,oil & gas to 100% renewable energy for all, among others, it will only get worse, and it’s going to take all of us working together to succeed. 
To everyone who cares about a safe climate future, on September 20, three days before the UN Emergency Climate Summit, Fridays for future Uganda is calling upon students, politicians, youths in their different capacities, workers, media houses, farmers, musicians, different community leaders in their respective capacities and all other individuals to join us to demand for environmental justice and our rights to a clean and healthy environment as enshrined in Art.39 of our constitution. By walking out of schools and workplaces, we stand together in solidarity to demonstrate that we are no longer willing to continue with business as usual because Climate crisis is a serious conundrum, and with no action, our future is not guaranteed.

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