6/4/2023 0 Comments Iowa oct 4 junkit![]() “Honestly I couldn’t believe it when I read that Greta was coming here, I was like … Iowa City?! What?! I’ve been following her for a while, honestly I can’t believe I’m here!”Īctivist Greta Thunberg joins a climate strike march in Iowa City. “To be part of a global movement and especially at this stage, it’s just an amazing, amazing opportunity to see a global leader,” said Abbey Jordahl, a freshman at UI from Ankeny, Iowa. ![]() The University of Iowa burns coal at its power plant, providing a clear target for the young activists who lead the crowd in regular chants of “End Coal Now!” “But then it was pretty easy to get the school board to get a climate resolution so we went to the city council and now we’re trying to get the coal fired plant shut down,” he added. “At the time our specific goal was to get the school board to pass a climate resolution,” he said in an interview with the Guardian. This is real hope to me,” she said.īiggers has spent the last six months mobilizing fellow students to pressure the city council into adopting more stringent measures to address climate change. This is real hope, so many people gathering on a weekday at such short notice. ![]() “It’s just so many people I don’t think any of us expected this many people. ![]() “Wow” said Thunberg, squinting in the sun, as the crowd chanted her name. Attendees participate in a climate strike rally with climate change environmental teen activist Greta Thunberg, in Iowa City, Iowa. ![]()
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