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I think we should start off super, super friendly.

Something like "Dear Ms Moran I hope you had a fantastic summer", all that

lead in, "as I'm sure you are aware the climate crisis is reaching

a tipping point, it's absolutely critical that we act now."

We need to like, let it be known that we're not just skipping school.

Over the last ten years sea levels have risen at an alarming

rate, biodiversity is reportedly declining faster than that of any

time in human history.

According to a new report the last decade was the Earth's warmest on record.

The alarming new numbers from scientists...

Ireland has declared a climate emergency.

Declaring an emergency means nothing if there isn't action to back it up.

The Amazon, it's being slashed and burned.

Extreme and deadly wildfires continue...

Students all around the world are flooding the streets demanding

action on climate change.

But it's looking to be the largest climate protest in our planet's history.

Observe it with your own eyes, this is a climate damn emergency.

This is real.

The Great Barrier Reef is facing its own problems.

The number of people living on land at risk of coastal flooding could be

three times what was previously thought.

The answer is to move away from fossil fuels and start leaning on

sustainable energy.

The United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.

Young people are starting to understand your betrayal.

The eyes of all future generations are upon you.

On August 20th, 2018, 15 year old Greta Thunberg skipped school to sit

outside the Swedish Parliament with a sign that read "School strike for the

climate" inadvertently kicking off a global movement.

Within months teens across the globe were skipping school every Friday to

raise awareness of the climate emergency.

Demanding a radical response from governments.

The Fridays for Future movement was born.

Your placards, banners and stuff are still in the car from yesterday are they?

Yes.

Can I pick you up off the strike about half two?

But we should be finished in Mahon about four I suppose, we might get back out.

There's an Extinction Rebellion meeting in the West Cork tonight with Lucy.

I remember in first and second year, there would be lads passing me by on

the street when I was with my friends or whatever and be like oh

that's that gay girl.

And now people pass me by and they're like oh that's that climate girl.

I get up 5.30 in the morning to get the 6.45 bus to Cork City to be here for nine.

It's about two hours earlier than I get up to go to school.

That's the blunt end.

Thank you very much.

Okay, that doesn't look too bad.

I have been involved in activism since I was three years old.

My parents started the Fair Trade Towns Committee in Skibbereen, so my

first campaign was me dressed as a Fair Trade banana in the

St. Patrick's Day Parade and I've pretty much been involved in

campaigning since then.

We have people leaning out of car windows swearing at us.

A large variety of beeps, which are open to interpretation.

CAR HORN

Case in point!

We usually take them positively, because, you know, what else can you do?

This is one of our warmer strikes.

I know, but I'm still cold.

This is only our second strike with rain though.

We had one where it just poured for five hours and one where we had to

cancel because of a weather warning.

Most people know the story about the emperor who gets this fine set of

clothes made for him and says they can only be seen if you are very

wise and very intelligent and if you can't see them then that means

you're not fit for your position, so the emperor pretends that he can see

them and everybody pretends that they can see them, and he goes to

this fine parade and then the little boy says the emperor is naked, he's

not wearing any clothes.

I like to think of Greta Thunberg as that little boy.

She's woken up a lot of adults who were pretending something is

happening, when it wasn't.

My generation and pretty much anyone born after 1990 have never known a

stable climate, we've always been aware of climate change and we've

all seen policies being drafted and motions being passed and whatever

else, but nothing ever changes.

The way we live on the planet has not changed.

We're not scientists.

We don't know maybe what the correct course of action is, but we know

that it's not what's happening right now.

(Chanting) Face the change, stop climate change.

Climate change is going to affect every single one of us yet over 150

of our own elected representatives cannot find it in them to attend a

vote on solving it.

Climate change needs to be a priority.

It needs to be taken into account in every single decision we make.

Declaring an emergency is one thing, acting on it is an entirely

different thing.

We came out here two months ago.

We've come out here today and we will continue to come out every

single week until something is done.

CHEERING

I think there's about 800 books in here and my study is next door and

that has another few hundred, I've been collecting them since I was

about six I think.

Here I have two copies of Greta Thunberg's book, because you know

obviously she's like my Fridays for Future icon and the reason I have

two is because people keep giving them to me for my birthday, my 16th

was last week and I think I got four copies.

So Fridays for Future, I'm kind of different to the rest of the people

in the sense that this is my first activism ever.

A lot of people have a lot of experience.

I remember a friend from debating added me to this group chat, she was

like would you like to get involved in the strikes?

I was like ah sure why not and it kind of went from there.

Welcome back my next guest...

In March 2019 a week before our first global strike I was on the

Late Late with some other climate strikers.

Thanks for coming to see us today.

Do your friends at school feel the same way?

Are you an outlier, are you on your own over there?

It's not that much of a radical thing.

I think some people see climate change as this radical thing, when

in actuality it's I want to have a future, I don't want to die because

of climate change in 11 years.

So there's overwhelming support from people in my year, in different

years, like I know everyone's having great support in their year.

I think it's something young people especially are very passionate

about, and that's why school strikes are so student focused, because it

is our futures that are being affected.

Yes, I love your passion.

I like the fact that you're young and you're engaged and you give a damn.

So the future is safe, thanks for coming in to see us.

Thank you.

I remember writing an article in The Journal last year and the comments

section, I looked at it, I was 15, and people were just going at me, oh

my God what a stupid teenager, she should just get back to Snapchat I

think someone said, I don't know if that's meant to be like get back to

the kitchen but for teenagers, it's just, it was very weird.

And I just had to go right what's the point, these are 40 year old men

at home that have nothing better to do than talk about a 15 year old

online, I think you have to learn to deal with it a bit, but it's part of life.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for the opportunity to speak here today.

My name is Theo Cullen-Mouze, I've just turned 17.

I have grown-up on a small island, 5km off the west coast of Ireland.

Our offshore community of Clare Island, population 150, is already

suffering the affects of the climate catastrophe in a very real

and frightening way.

Winter storms are wilder, summer droughts are longer.

Extreme flooding is more and more frequent.

Living on Clare Island, we're very much on the edge.

The edge of Ireland, the edge of Europe.

But we're also at the centre of the climate crisis.

We have an organic farm, where we grow all the vegetables that we eat,

and also the vegetables for the guests that come on yoga courses and food courses.

Myself and my sister, we both help out wherever really our help is

needed on the farm.

With cooking, gardening, whatever comes up really.

Being vegetarian is an important part of what we do, not only for animal

cruelty reasons, but in terms of the changes that you can make on an

individual level, as far as acting on the climate crisis goes.

We're very much cut off, in a way, from the outside world.

Even though in the summer we get ferries regularly, there would be

four or five, six ferries a day in the summer.

In the winter it's down to two and that's on a good day.

When the weather's bad you could go three or four days without a ferry.

There is a nurse here, but the doctor comes in from Achill every Wednesday

for about two or three hours.

The taxi doubles up as a school bus as well.

It's a crazy place, and sometimes, sometimes you love it and sometimes

you hate it.

Even though I would have heard about climate change, the true scale of

this issue is something that I was not aware of.

But that all changed quite recently.

The year 2078 I will celebrate my 75th birthday.

If I have children, maybe they will spend that day with me.

Maybe they will ask me about you.

Maybe they will ask why you didn't do anything while there still was time to act.

You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing

their future in front of their very eyes.

We have come here to let you know that change is coming, whether you

like it or not.

After I heard Greta Thunberg's speech, I got in touch with a few

friends from around the country, and we started discussing how we could

start something in Ireland.

We mainly use WhatsApp and it can get a bit hectic sometimes, it will

be so many messages to catch up on.

I'll see something like, like this you know this would be kind of normal

for me, I've got 105 messages from eight chats in the last hour and a half.

It can be really difficult sometimes, just to like stay on top

of everything, because you've school, you've commitments at home.

But because this is something I'm passionate about, it's also really rewarding.

Tomorrow we're going to Lausanne in Switzerland for the International

Fridays for Future meeting in Europe, which is six days long.

I'm really excited, I actually haven't been able to sleep for the

last few nights, because it's just my first time away without my

parents and I think it's just going to be so great to meet all the others.

Because everyone there is super involved, super passionate, super

engaged, they are just amazing young people, most of them, the people

I've been talking to, so I think it's going to be a really great week

and it's just really great to meet everyone and everything.

To reduce the carbon footprint of their journey, the group decides not to fly.

Instead, they take the ferry to mainland Europe and will continue on

by train to Switzerland.

(Tannoy) Attention, attention, ladies and gentlemen, please listen

very carefully to the following safety announcement.

(Laughter)

I did an interview with a newspaper the other day about eco anxiety and

they were like oh we're talking to you because you're a big voice on

climate but you're not anxious, you're more of a climate warrior,

those were her words right.

The idea that we're not scared, people don't want to see us as

scared because that's upsetting, a bunch of scared children on the streets.

Children marching for their futures, children marching for the children

they might have, that's upsetting.

A bunch of angry teenagers on the streets, that's something people can deal with.

People want to paint us as angry because that they can swallow and

that's the whole image.

Greta is painted as angry, we're angry teenagers.

And we are angry, don't get me wrong, we are angry.

But we are also terrified.

People need to wake up, it's really that's what it is.

400 delegates meeting in Switzerland to discuss climate change that

shouldn't be a sentence that's about children.

It's like talking to a wall.

It really is.

At 16 I should be losing sleep over boys and my Leaving Cert, I shouldn't

be losing sleep over whether or not I'll make it to 40, there is a very

big difference there and if the people in power and people back then

have been responsible had done their jobs I wouldn't be in this position,

none of us would be in this position, quite frankly we shouldn't have to be

and it shouldn't have gotten to this point.

The information has been around longer than we have.

Yeah!

Whose climate? Our climate.

Whose climate? Our climate.

Whose climate? Our climate.

Whose climate? Our climate.

Yeah that's right, our f***ing climate!

APPLAUSE

We're all exhausted, we've all been in a close space with each other for

35 hours which is like the longest I've ever spent with any of these people.

And surprisingly we don't hate each other yet!

No. So on that note...

See you in Lausanne. Bye!

The future of life on the planet is at stake.

We have decided to come together here in Lausanne for this week long meeting.

We are some 450 young participants from 38 countries.

Within only a few months more than 2 million people around the whole

world have joined our movement.

We want to turn our hopes for the future into action.

One of our participants hardly needs an introduction, Greta Thunberg from

Sweden, a great inspiration for our movement.

APPLAUSE

This morning the junior organisation of the Populist Party in Switzerland

released a press release and they called you, your movement and your

requirements highly dangerous.

What would you like to answer?

Yeah, I am very dangerous.

People say that all the time to this movement and the whole climate

movement, because we are having an impact, that is why they feel like

they must try to silence us and to create confusion, so I think that is

in some ways a good sign.

It proves that we are actually making a difference.

Thank you very much.

APPLAUSE

The meeting in Lausanne is an important date in the Fridays for

Future calendar.

Activists from all over Europe have come together for the first time to

establish the aims of their growing movement.

Some people have very specific demands, some countries have less

specific demands and it's about what works culturally and politically.

That you don't...

So violence is like hurting people and fighting.

People who don't get really appreciated by society, because they

are not environmental, it will change.

If I punched Eleanor it would be violent, so we're non-violent.

While we sit here in Lausanne, 1,380 new coal power plants are under

construction or planned worldwide.

Effective climate policy must include the developing countries, otherwise

we are losing the war.

Our movement proposes as a value that we appreciate and demand

equality within the movement, everyone is equal, everyone has the same voice.

A very, very important thing if we want to work together is

communication.

So you may have seen some people already using the hand signs.

So I would like to introduce them and really invite you to use them

throughout the week.

So when you agree with something...

Great.

Okay.

If someone is taking too much time...

Yeah.

When someone said something that touched your heart, make a little heart.

Lausanne brought together 400 activists from 38 countries and

really the whole idea was to discuss the issues, to come together and to

create a stronger front and movement and learn from each other so that we

can go forward even stronger and even more ready to create change.

We demand wide significant action by the EU for mitigation, adaptation

and we decided to just take it out because it's basically every other

demand in one.

So we already have plans for mitigating.

I was in the demands working group, where we were working specifically

on what should the demands for Fridays for Future Europe be?

There were quite a few moments of tension, there was quite a few

challenges, because obviously that is what do we want out of the movement?

None of us agree to not one single of this demand, because every one is

too specific.

Instead of these specific demands, we have four demands only, big demands.

It's really important that they are as relevant to every country and

that they can be used by activists no matter where they're from.

Every single person in the movement has to be able to defend

and understand the demands that we have.

Because if a reporter comes to a striker at a demonstration and asks

them hey why do you support circular economy and they can't answer that,

that's problematic.

We already talked about this the whole day and we already had a

consensus on having some main demands and some sub points to these

demands, which are more specific.

I was just going to say we absolutely didn't reach a consensus yesterday.

It was definitely discussed and I agree that it was difficult and a

strenuous process but there was no consensus.

We understand that you would disagree.

So we're just going to propose this now and then you can discuss this later.

So just give us the time to speak and then you can criticise because

it's really distracting when you do that in our faces.

How harsh is the sign?

Because they said we shouldn't do this in their face while they

are talking about their proposals, but I find this just as a strong

disagreement as a reaction just like this.

I don't feel offended by it, I understand your thinking and I knew

you disagree because I saw it the first time.

What I mean was it was distracting while I was speaking, because you're

right in front of me.

If everybody is clear I think we can move to the next group.

What made our movement strong is that we haven't had to do this.

And we don't have to do this now.

No, we all agree on these things.

These are what we need anything else is waste of time.

2035 is way too late.

It's a whole of Europe thing.

After much debate the group settles on three main aims for the movement.

Number one...

Extreme weather events, food shortages, severe heat waves and

a mass die off of coral reefs are all expected before 2040 if the planet

warms beyond 1.5 degrees, threatening entire ecosystems and human lives.

Aim number two...

Activists want governments to listen to scientists and act on the

information they give us.

Aim number three...

Climate justice means trying to ensure that people on the planet are

treated fairly as we adapt to climate change.

People will be impacted by this transition in different ways,

depending on wealth, race, gender and location.

Fridays for Future activists believe that change must come about in a way

that is sensitive to the needs of everyone.

I shouldn't be up here.

I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.

The climate hysteria movement is not about science.

Everyone seems to have an opinion on the 16 year old climate activist...

If it were about science it would be led by scientists.

You're a grown man and you're attacking a child.

Shame on you.

How dare you.

You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and

yet I'm one of the lucky ones.

People are suffering, people are dying.

Entire ecosystems are collapsing.

We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk

about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.

How dare you!

So Theo, I think like many other kids, was extremely impressed by

her, Greta Thunberg.

It's really, it's a lot for these kids to be taking in this information.

She never really asked us, hey I'm going to get involved in the climate

movement what do you think?

She just took the decision and went with it.

It does at times feel a little bit like a losing battle, and I suppose

hope isn't a strategy, but these guys have given us hope.

She really knows what she's talking about, this is not skipping school,

this is not let's go off and have a bit of craic.

But it's also been really hard on her.

Yeah, I'm very conscious of the heaviness of this all.

I think there's a lot of anxiety in her cohort, in her peers and she's

as vulnerable to it as anybody else and she has to climb over that like

anybody else.

We are actually very proud of them, aren't we?

Incredibly proud of them.

I definitely wasn't doing anything like that at 16, I was just

a completely different teenager.

I don't know where it's going to go.

I think that with the kids that they have to keep doing what they're

doing and possibly doing it even stronger.

These kids are serious, this crisis is a real crisis, it's not made up.

They are not paranoid, they're not hippies.

The world is on the edge of a precipice and if we don't do

something to keep this rise in temperature below 1.5 degrees,

we're in trouble.

It's been over a year since Saoi and the group outside Cork City Hall

began their weekly strike.

The movement has ignited a global conversation about climate change.

But policy has been slow to catch up.

This is week 56, so we're here just over a year now.

We're very tired.

We're very frustrated, but we're happy that we've lasted this long.

I think there is definitely an achievement and something to be

satisfied with there, but it is frustrating that we still have to be

here after a year.

It really is, it's disillusioning, you know?

What do we want?

Climate justice.

When do we want it? Now.

If we don't get it?

Come on lads you always miss that one -- if we don't get it?

Eat the rich... Inhale the rich.

(Laughter)

Every week without fail they forget the end of that chant.

Wait, what is it? Shut it down!

I think people take me less seriously because I'm younger, but I

also think people take me significantly less seriously because I'm a girl.

I think that yeah, people don't really want to pay attention to

young people, people do often say oh go to school, become a scientist, do

something real.

But they say that to me a lot more than they say it to my young male friends.

This is a movement that is, as we're seeing globally, being predominantly

led by young women.

And I don't think that's coincidental.

The climate crisis is a gendered issued.

It always has been, it always will be.

Most justice issues are gendered issues, so it makes sense that young

women are at the forefront of this.

When I was in third year I was, like I said I was really vocal on social

media and stuff, I had quite a big platform to do that.

I remember going to, like a disco, and I came onto the bus, it was like

'there's the feminist, there's the feminist'.

I was like I don't even know you.

I think definitely we are taken less seriously, we're told we're naive or

they try to belittle us.

The only way that I found that I can combat that and even this doesn't

work, is just having a really big bank of stats and facts in the back

of my head, but it's just -- it is really difficult to constantly be

battered down just for your age.

I think also though that there is an element of advantage to being young,

in that we get away with things a bit.

I get into spaces that I maybe wouldn't if I was older, because

we're cute and cuddly, no.

But they don't think that we're a danger to them, and they definitely

should and I think they're starting to.

But I've been able to do things like interview Richard Bruton, be in a

mock D�il session, this kind of thing.

What's your favourite environmental meme?

You know the one where it's like the boyfriend and the girlfriend and

then he turns around and looks and it's like big oil company.

You know the one with the gif where the guys walks into the room and

everything's on fire and he's just here holding the three pizzas like

what's going on?

Yeah, that's me, all the time.

APPLAUSE

Not long after joining her first activist group, Beth has become a key organiser.

Today, she and fellow campaigners meet to prepare for what they hope

will be a day of massive global protest.

Friday is our general international strike.

So we're meeting at 12 o'clock at Custom's House, there's different

meeting points depending on what group, age and things you're from,

that's all online.

Then we start marching at around 12.30 to get to Merrion Square

south, the back of government buildings, from 1 until 2pm,

so anyone of any age is welcome, it's still youth led and youth

organised, but it's all adults welcome and it's our next major

international strike, so yeah, if you can come please do.

Because we just really need as many people as we can get.

So yeah, thanks guys.

APPLAUSE

I think there's a massive learning curve when it comes to organising the strikes.

So firstly deciding the route first of all, just in Dublin for example

there's a lot of different groups you have to get consensus across

them for the route and timing.

Then looking at permits, looking at Garda clearance which can have its

own issues as we saw at our last strike, when they wouldn't give

us the clearance.

This is going to be my first sign that I've had for a protest, so I'm

pretty excited.

What do we want? Climate action.

When do we want it? Now.

The protest gets under way and it's clear from the beginning that this is

going to be a big one.

Thousands of students in Ireland will go on strike from school for

one day today as they join millions of others.

Students and workers all around the world are flooding the streets

demanding action on climate change.

There has been a lot of criticism about today in particular being

chosen, a weekday, for students...

Millions of people, including many children have been taking part in

demonstrations around the globe.

What exactly is it that they're looking for?

Well they're looking for climate action really.

More than 4 million demonstrators, most of them students, turn out for

the largest climate protest the world has ever seen.

Across Ireland activists take to the stage and to the streets, calling for

a swift transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

What do we want? Climate justice.

When do we want it? Now.

Listen Leo, listen. Listen Leo, listen.

CHANTING

CHANTING

It makes me really, really nervous to give speeches or anything like

that and it's kind of one of those things you try and work through,

but I always feel like I'm going to puke.

This is so big. I know, it's crazy.

Are you speaking? I am, yeah.

My speech is after getting soaked.

I'm actually so scared. Why?

I don't know, I'm just really nervous.

Don't be, you were great the last time, you've done this before.

So you got it.

You've totally got it.

You'll be great.

And what would you like to see happen as a result of these protests today?

I would like to see the government wake up!

We've been here chanting wake up Bruton, because he seems to think

that his plan that prioritises the economic element of it, he is an

economist, is the most important thing.

And actually it's a crap plan.

CHEERING

September 20th and we're back again missing another day of school

because the people in power refuse to wake up, do their jobs and

save the only planet we can survive on!

CHEERING

Talking about the crisis is no longer enough and that is why we are

out on the streets today.

We all will be voting in a few years time and we'll remember who stood up

and fought back for our planet and who did nothing and watched it burn!

CHEERING

Climate change is an issue which affects absolutely everyone.

To change everything, we need everyone.

Climate change is always discussed as something that will be

catastrophic, in the future.

But what was once tomorrow is now today.

It is my great honour to stand here with you guys today as we write history.

CHEERING

This morning Minister Richard Bruton has said that the school strikes are

no longer necessary, because the government has written its all of

government climate action plan.

BOOING

What I would call the all of government climate action plan is

the emperor's new clothes.

APPLAUSE

We know the Taoiseach is going to New York next week for the big

climate change UN summit what would your message be to him?

There's no use sitting around talking around a table unless you're

going to follow through with the actions that you've signed up to.

It's been absolutely incredible, hard to imagine a bigger crowd.

I felt proud.

I did feel like crying at one point, not out of sadness or anything, just

this feeling of, of hope, of an appetite for change.

We are here to do what is always the job of the people, what is always

the job of the young people, which is to tell the truth.

And we are going to tell them that they are naked.

The emperor has no clothes!

APPLAUSE

Characterised as a pandemic...

First death of a patient... Closure of schools and colleges.

Europe is now the epicentre of the global coronavirus...

Events that are unprecedented in modern times.

Businesses have shut down.

We are going into a global recession.

It's hard to effect change.

It's even harder when at the height of awareness for your given cause,

unforeseen circumstances force the public's attention to move elsewhere.

How is the pandemic affecting climate action?

Clare Island is in a state of lockdown, there's no visitors from

the mainland coming, everything feels a little bit surreal.

We've been doing okay, my mum is at risk so obviously we've been having

to isolate strictly with that stuff.

But we're getting through it.

My dad is working from home, we're just trying to find things to keep

us entertained, take a break from each other occasionally.

It makes me glad that we live where we live and that we have a big

outdoor space that we can be in without being in public and that we

have dogs, I think that the key to surviving lockdown is definitely to

have animals around.

We've been doing a number of online campaigns to try and keep some

momentum going and we have been doing online strikes.

There's only so far that a bunch of photos of us holding signs can go,

because it is very much in the social media echo chamber.

I don't think many people in our world right now have a plan for

moving forward for the next few months and certainly not a group of teenagers.

We are going to keep going, we're not going to stop, but I couldn't

give you a road map for what it looks like.

I just know that we're going to keep going.

PIANO MUSIC

Before this pandemic hit, this movement had gathered so much momentum.

We had achieved an awful lot, there was this definite shift in public opinion.

I felt that fear at the very beginning of the pandemic that we

were starting to lose that, and I think we've definitely lost some of that now.

It does feel sometimes like the world is falling apart a little bit.

At the beginning I felt very motivated and I had an awful lot of energy.

But I have been doing this climate activism for a year and a half now.

It's been, it's been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster.

I felt a bit burnt out.

I needed a break.

I know many other people have said it before, but in the end we're

just, we're just children, and this really shouldn't be our job.

After months of lockdown, business resumes and visitors return to Clare Island.

We actually have our first big group of the year, it's a group of hill

walkers and usually there would be a large number of them that would be

coming to the island every year, but because of the pandemic,

obviously there's been next to no one so far and this is the first big

group that we've had this year.

There's a bit of apprehension, I'm not sure, when you get back into

things there's always a little bit of uncertainty, but it's good to

have people again, for sure.

Today, Saoi and her fellow activists return to Cork City Hall for the

first time after three months of campaigning online.

It's very strange how quickly everything was pulled out from under us.

A little disconcerting, but it was good to be back today.

It kind of feels like a relief.

People sort of don't want to talk about the climate crisis right now

because everything is already so difficult.

I think it's easier for people to go, no, no not right now we're not

talking about this, we're talking about COVID.

And I get why people would react that way.

But these two crises are not separate, they are inextricably

connected and I think people really need to see that we're still here

and that this is still important.

The COVID-19 crisis and the climate crisis are intersecting because

they're both products of the way we treat the natural world and each other.

We're going to keep striking until there's change.

So we're going to be here for a while by the looks of it,

and I really hope not.

It's just good to be back.

It feels like a relief that we're finally getting to be here again,

because we hadn't and it was a weird feeling.

It was unsettling, so I think that this is, this is good even though we

shouldn't have to be here at all and it's kind of messed up that I feel

that way about it, but this is our Fridays.

That's the, well not quite the original, but certainly the oldest

incarnation that has survived the longest and been the most places and

this is the current, that we use at the strike.

Yeah, it's certainly, it's gotten bigger, I don't know if it's gotten

more impactful, I hope so.

Bren!

He can't hear me, they've shut the two doors.

Yeah, he's coming, the only person we're missing is Rosa.

This is her chair, she could sit here.

Campaigners also held a demonstration outside Cork City Hall.

I think we dropped off the radar a little bit in terms of media because

literally everybody was just talking about COVID and this is the first

real proper press stuff, today with RTE and with the Irish Times, that

I've done in three months.

We need to act on the climate crisis as well.

RTE News Limerick.

Definitely counts as COVID hair.

In a time that is so dominated by COVID, I'm happy when they air us at all.

It was good to see that the climate crisis was getting some mainstream

coverage there, hopefully it will be a good reminder for people,

beyond that there's not much more you can ask for.

Meanwhile in Dublin, with restrictions eased, activists

returned to the streets, albeit in much smaller numbers.

So this is Fridays for Future Dublin first strike back after obviously

COVID-19, so we have markers on the ground for two-metre social

distancing and myself and Connor here are giving out masks for people

who don't have them and also we're sanitizing people's hands before they come in.

We will not stop protesting until change is won, which is why I'm

calling on our Taoiseach Miche�l Martin and Leo Varadkar as well,

to stand up and try and do something serious to combat this crisis,

because it is been so long of striking, so long of chanting, but

we have seen no change.

No more coal, no more oil, keep our carbon in the soil.

No more coal, no more oil, keep our carbon in the soil.

The protest just finished up, I only just got into town, because due to

the whole pandemic situation my parents weren't happy for me to

attend because my family is immunocompromised.

I think the pandemic really shook the climate movement.

I think it really, not threw us off kilter but it was a shock to the

system and it wasn't something we had been expecting.

There was a point where we were losing momentum, I think now it's

back to building that up.

It's very difficult to deal with a lot of things that are happening.

I think as young people, you see the 2008 financial crisis when you're

five, then you see climate change when you're about 12 and then you

see a pandemic when you're 16 or 17, then you see the climate crisis

continuing throughout all of that and I think, growing up we're seeing

the failure of a lot of our economic and social institutions and we're

seeing the issues in society and we're growing up with what feels

like the end of a world.

I will pass the mic to Beth, another member of the youth committee and we

will launch the manifesto.

From today we're launching this manifesto as a pledge, for anyone

from anywhere to pledge their dedication and commitment to making

sure that it is followed through with.

That it translates into real, concrete action from our decision

makers and that it helps to create a new, fairer reality.

For that to happen we need everyone.

We don't just need one group of people or one area of society,

because the climate crisis will impact every single one of us.

This pledge is the power in young people coming together.

To show dedication, to show unity and to show strength in the face of

crisis, and with all of that in mind I would like to invite President

Mary Robinson to launch this pledge and to be the first signatory if she

would be willing to.

Thank you.

It is a real honour, and I'm so encouraged by the commitment and

spirit and the thought that has gone into this manifesto and the

very beginning of it being that unity that you've emphasised and the

just transition, and the climate justice lens.

These are what we need.

So I am so happy to be the, to sign on, I'm not quite sure I'll send you

my signature or you can consider me signed on.

But this gives me great hope.

We need young people to keep us honest.

Keep us straight.

Know that your future depends on how much you can continue to urge us to

take our responsibility and you're doing it and you're doing it so well

and I'm very, very proud of you.

Go neirigh libh go leir.

Hi.

You were amazing.

Thank you so much.

I have to tell you right, brilliant closing.

Thank you so much. You nailed it.

Thank you. Such a powerful closing.

Thank you so much.

I remember when our former Taoiseach Varadkar gave his speech in March

and the thing that struck me was that, that speech could very easily

have been the climate crisis speech that I would have wanted to hear,

even though he was talking about the pandemic and the measures that would

be needed, this sense of urgency, of immediacy, and of needed action,

of action that will be taken, that's what we need to be hearing

from policy makers when it comes to the climate crisis.

That speech, you know, you should send it back to Varadkar and

everybody else and say just change some of the key words, substitute,

not even change, you substitute pandemic for climate crisis.

This is such an overwhelming crisis.

It's already impacting people, it's killing people.

But I think the moment you start to think we can't do anything is the

moment where we can't do anything.

You have to believe that you can make that happen.

Because if you don't, then I suppose there is no hope anymore.

We limit ourselves by saying what will bureaucracy allow us to do?

What is politically possible, that we forget sometimes to imagine how

things could be.

They're named after herbs, which my father thinks is very funny.

I would like to see people wake up one morning and think of the climate

crisis, not as something to shy away from, but as an invitation to dream

of a better world.

This is, in a way, the fight of a lifetime.

And for climate activists I think in one shape or another, we're going to

be fighting for this, for the rest of our lives.

Sometimes you'll hear people say we're already too late.

That's a very defeatist attitude.

It's never too late.

Every point one of a degree matters.

This movement, the people involved in it, we're going to be around for

a long time and we're going to keep fighting and you're going to keep

seeing us and hearing from us.

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