School students continue Friday protests calling for political action on climate crisis

On March 15, climate strikes took place in more than 100 countries. New Internationalist talked to students in Oxford who are among the hundreds of thousands of young people joining a snowballing global youth movement that's demanding immediate action on climate breakdown.

School students in more than 100 countries have begun a series of strikes to demand that politicians take urgent action on climate change. The coordinated protests were organised on social media under the Fridays for Future banner.

Greta Thunberg a 16-year-old Swedish inspired the protests. She is now in her 30th week of striking on Fridays.

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