Naomi Klein and Rebecca Stefoff
Since her days as a columnist for
The Globe and Mail, Naomi Klein has written eight
New York Times bestselling books and co-authored Canada’s Leap Manifesto, a blueprint for transitioning off fossil fuels. For
How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other (Puffin Canada), her first book for young readers, she teamed up with Rebecca Stefoff, the author of more than 200 nonfiction books, including a young readers edition of Charles Darwin’s
On the Origin of Species. Klein and Stefoff spoke with
Q&Q about the project.
time phil gaia welcome to the program a day of worldwide protest and demand action on climate change is continuing with huge crowds taking to the streets in almost every country in the world a movement that started with children skipping school on friday says grown into a global force uniting young and old the 1st place to wake up to the cyclo ball climate strike was australia. around the world in just 24 hours the largest condit process the world has ever seen that s what organizers have been calling today s wave of strikes for the planet s. was student demonstrators have been turning out in them millions some of the 1st run is kicks off in australia i think every run the front lines i mean change you know it s already happening it s not waiting for it to happen or you know
attention to india s rapidly growing cities which are reeling from extreme air pollution and heatwaves studies show that human induced climate activity plays the big role here the students here are demanding the policymakers take steps to cut carbon emissions to move away from fossil fuels and police climate issues at the center of city planning policies to tackle what they see is a climate of motivations or. sonia follicle a reporter in telly let s go live now to new york to see what s happening that they don t correspondent a column like a welcome column gratitude book was speaking there today what she had to say. well credit to mark started out by saying how many people there were out in the streets today across the entire world all continents including and arctica and she was saying that this is in fact the biggest climate action protest in human history
protesters are hoping that my call will finally hear the message and live up to what he said he d be a climate champion. this is what friday for future protests in russia look like a small number of young people have gathered on a may just be in downtown moscow and they re holding what are called solitary pickets where people protest near but not to next to one another but that s because it s difficult to get a permit for mass gathering from the government. agent capital a group of people including students who are skip classes are out on the streets demanding action on climate change they re demonstrating in front of the ministry of urban affairs and housing and that s because this protest is intended to draw