Alexandria Villasenor looks a slightly incongruous figure to stage a lengthy protest over the perils of catastrophic global warming. The 13-year-old, wrapped in a coat and a woolen hat, has spent every Friday since December seated on a frigid bench outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City with signs warning of global warming’s dire consequences. “My generation knows that global warming will be the biggest problem we’ll have to face,” Villasenor said. “It’s upsetting that my generation has to push these leaders to take action. We aren’t going to stop striking until some more laws are passed.”
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Alexandria Villasenor skips school on Friday morning to strike in front of the U.N. Sarah Blesener for the Washington Post via Getty Images
— source grist.org | Mar 13, 2019