In front of the Ministry for the Economy, calling for an immediate end to coal produStriking high school students march in front of the Reichstag building, seat of the German Parliament the Bundestag, during a protest for more effective government climate change policy on January 25, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty Images)An estimated ten thousand students took to the freezing cold streets of Berlin, Germany on Friday as they added their voices to the growing youth-led global uprising that is demanding urgent and far-reaching action to address the world’s climate crisis. Following others using the #ClimateStrike tactic inspired by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg of Sweden, the #FridaysforFuture march in Berlin was held as students across Switzerland also held protests on Friday and two days after 35,000 young people marched in Brussels.
