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If you have ever watched any American action movie, you will realize that people don’t joke with a bomb at all. No matter how strong the protagonist is, immediately he sees that the antagonist has in possession a bomb, he begins to flee for his life. That only gives whoever is watching a fair idea of how dangerous a bomb is, even if you have never seen or had an experience with one before. The same way we fret and become and anxious when we hear of bombs, I believe we must that feeling when the issue of climate change is raised. Yes, climate change is a ticking time bomb, that can explode at any moment if caution is not taken. I hate to use the calamity that has befallen people as cases to buttresses my points in any submission but I don’t think what is happening to Australia is an example I can run away from. Australia is enduring a bushfire crisis that has left three people dead, razed more than 150 homes and prompted warnings of “catastrophic” danger. Australia just like t...

Our forefathers fought, for one thing, independence, and they did it well. Today, our fight is not just for independence, the fight of this generation is on Climate Change. This is why from Friday, 20-27 of September 2019, millions of people, including school children, youth, parents, labor and humanitarian groups, environmental organizations and employees of some of the world’s biggest brands also set to participate in the strike to demand transformative action on the climate crisis. According to the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, ‘’The Youth has been showing an enormous Leadership, and I hope that their leadership will have a very strong impact on the societies as a whole  as a whole, on their families and based on that, on the  governments of their Counties’’. The global climate strike is the third in a worldwide series of climate rallies organized to by students and led by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg. WHO IS DOING WHAT FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE S...