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more than 300 teachers, stu-
dents and environmental
activists marched at the Uni-
versity of Peshawar, chant-
ing slogans such as “Save our
planet” and “Earth is our
mother.” Asif Khan, a profes-
sor and head of the campus
Environmental Science So-
ciety, which organized the
march, called for urgent
measures to reduce green-
house gas emissions.
“Actions are required to
stop this climate change
phenomenon, not words,”
Asif said.
Thousands of protesters
marched through central
Paris. High school students
skipped classes to show
their growing anger and
frustration.
“We are afraid, I mean
really afraid, about the de-
struction of the planet and
its resources,” said Ka-
toucha Masson, 15. “Are the
politicians doing enough?
Non, non, non.”
In Texas, protesters gath-
ered in Austin, in Dallas sub-
urbs, in San Antonio, on the
Mexican border and in
Houston, which was still
reeling from Tropical Storm
Imelda with flash flood
warnings in effect.
“We face regular environ-
mental disasters like [Hurri-
cane] Harvey and Imelda,
while also having hundreds
of miles of burn bans and
desolate prairie,” said Vir-
ginia Gaffney, 19, who partic-
ipated in the Austin gather-
ing and led the strike in
Texas.
The global grass-roots
campaign was designed to
disrupt everyday life and

build political pressure

ahead of the U.N. summit, in

which heads of state con-

vened by Secretary-General

Antonio Guterres plan new

climate pledges. Countries

planning to forgo pledges in-

clude the United States,

which President Trump is

withdrawing from the Paris

climate agreement.

Protesters expressed a

growing sense of crisis amid

heat waves, floods, hurri-

canes, droughts and wild-

fires. Advocates want gov-

ernments and corporations

to set deadlines for switch-

ing from fossil fuels to renew-

able energy.

Rallies were intended to

be peaceful, but next week,

U.S. activists plan more con-

frontational protests, aim-

ing to snarl Washington traf-

fic Monday and disrupt San

Francisco’s financial district

Wednesday.

In Bow, N.H., organizer

Rebecca Beaulieu of 350.org

is recruiting volunteers for a

protest Sept. 28 designed to

shut down Merrimack Sta-

tion, one of the largest coal-

fired power plants still op-

erating in New England.

“There are a whole bunch of

people who are willing to risk

arrest,” she said.

School systems and cor-

porations struggled this

week to respond as students

and employees made plans

to ditch classrooms and of-

fices. New York City allowed

its 1.1 million public school

students to skip classes for

the day. But the Los Angeles

Unified School District en-

couraged students to remain

on campus and “express

themselves at school,” a dis-

trict spokeswoman said.

Patagonia and a handful

of other retailers, including

Ben & Jerry’s, closed their

stores Friday in solidarity

with protesters. Rose Mar-

cario, chief executive of

the Ventura-based outdoor

clothing company, wrote in a

blog post that the warming

climate is speeding the world

toward the biggest economic

catastrophe in history.

“Capitalism needs to evolve

if humanity is going to sur-

vive,” she wrote.

At Amazon headquarters

in Seattle, more than 1,

employees walked out, say-

ing their employer is not

moving fast enough to re-

duce its contributions to cli-

mate change.

Some carried signs say-

ing, “Customer obsessed

equals climate obsessed,”

and “Amazon, let’s lead. Zero

emissions by 2030.”

In an apparent attempt

at a preemptive response,

Chief Executive Jeff Bezos

on Thursday announced a

Climate Pledge for Amazon

and other companies to sign.

Amazon committed to meet-

ing the goals of the Paris

agreement 10 years early and

reach net-zero carbon emis-

sions by 2040.

But an employee group in

Seattle called Amazon Em-

ployees for Climate Justice

had called for the company

to hit zero emissions by 2030

and to stop helping oil and

gas companies accelerate

extraction and discover re-

serves. A company subsidi-

ary, Amazon Web Services,

provides cloud computing

services to those fossil fuel

businesses.

Group members, who or-

ganized Friday’s walkout,

said that as a tech leader,

Amazon should achieve cli-

mate goals sooner, reducing

the carbon footprint of its

data centers and massive

shipping operations.

“If we’re coming in just at

2040, that means that most

other companies are coming

in somewhere after that, and

that’s not enough,” said data

engineer Justin Campbell, a

member of the group.

Yet Campbell said group

members were elated that

Bezos made the announce-

ment, adopting some of their

wording, a few months after

Amazon shareholders voted

down a proposal they made

for the company to adopt a

climate-change plan. Camp-

bell, 31, decided to depart

publicly from Amazon’s

party line after seeing little

change from volunteering for

internal company initiatives.

“I don’t think anyone

wants to be part of the gener-

ation that knew we had a

chance to make a change but

didn’t,” he said, “because we

thought it was too daunting

or another person would do

it.”

In Lower Manhattan,

swarms of protesters, many

of them children and teen-

agers who had walked out of

class, poured into the

streets.

Protesters gathered mid-

day in and around Foley

Square before marching

past City Hall and toward

Battery Park.

Mari Matoba, a 37-year-

old market researcher, took

the train in from Brooklyn.

She carried her 18-month-

old son, Wells, and pulled her

6-year-old daughter, Hadley,

out of first grade for the day

to come along too, saying the

march was as important as

any lesson in the classroom.

“We need to be acting im-

mediately to create a world

that is not just healthy for

our children, but that can

sustain their children,” Ma-

toba said.

In Miami Beach, where

sea level rise and erosion

could place more than 12,

homes at risk of chronic

flooding within the next 30

years, a relatively small

crowd of roughly 300 stu-

dents and adult chaperones

gathered outside City Hall in

the first of two protests Fri-

day. Their signs read: “I hope

my grandkids know how to

swim” and “Take a stand be-

fore our city is all sand.”

In London, protesters

packed streets and parks

around Parliament to chant

and cheer.

“If you don’t act like

adults, then we will,” read

one sign held by a student

who had ditched school to

join the protest. “Why would

we go to school if you won’t

listen to the educated?” read

another sign written in a

child’s handwriting.

In Mexico City, about 500

people marched from the

Angel of Independence mon-

ument to the central square

downtown in a demon-

stration meant to pressure

the Mexican government to

do more to combat climate

change. The marchers were

of all ages, including children

and the elderly, but uni-

versity students appeared to

be the largest bloc.

One student, Armando

Lopez, 21, said, “We all have

to be conscious of how to

care for the planet, and in

Mexico the president should

declare a national climate

emergency.” Lopez criticized

President Andres Manuel

Lopez Obrador’s emphasis

on building more refineries

and increasing Mexico’s pe-

troleum extraction capa-

bilities while downplaying

the development of renew-

able energy sources.

Organizers said there

were 60 such marches and

rallies across Mexico on

Friday.

In Brazil, protests were

scheduled in at least 40 cities

across 20 states Friday, with

participants demanding

better environmental con-

servation policies and an

end to the fires that continue

to ravage the Amazon, a re-

sult of increased deforest-

ation due to illegal logging,

mining and farming, experts

say.

In Rio de Janeiro, educa-

tional activities were held at

the Museum of Tomorrow,

and in the northeastern city

of Salvador, a public class on

environmental preservation

was held after the morning

protest.

In China, the world’s larg-

est carbon emitter, no major

strikes were held. Public

gatherings and internet ac-

cess are strictly controlled in

what is also the world’s most

populous nation.

In the southern city of

Guilin, a lone high school

student planted trees.

Howey Ou, 16, staged a solo

protest for seven days in May

in front of the local govern-

ment building before au-

thorities told her to stop be-

cause she did not have a per-

mit. Ou switched to planting

trees every Friday instead.

In Hong Kong, student

groups canceled their cli-

mate actions out of concern

for safety.

Mass youth-led pro-

democracy protests have

rocked the city for 15 weeks,

many ending in violent

clashes with the police. More

than 1,400 protesters have

been arrested so far.

“We would not want to

jeopardize students’ safety

through a big group gather-

ing — something which at

this moment in time cannot

be guaranteed,” the student

group Climate Action Hong

Kong said in a Facebook

post.

Times staff writers Howard

Blume in Los Angeles; Molly

Hennessy-Fiske in

Houston; Tony Barboza in

New York; Alice Su in

Beijing; Jenny Jarvie in

Atlanta; and special

correspondents Kim

Willsher in Paris; Erik

Kirschbaum in Berlin;

Christina Boyle in London;

Zulfiqar Ali in Peshawar,

Pakistan; Jill Langlois in

Sao Paulo, Brazil; and

Cecilia Sanchez in Mexico

City contributed to this

report.

Students lead climate change rallies

DEMONSTRATORSrally outside the Greek Parliament in Athens as part of a global strike Friday to demand action on climate change.

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