GRETA SAY: Climate Strike Friday 12/6...

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"After more than a year of grim scientific projections and growing activism, world leaders and the public alike are increasingly recognizing the severity and urgency of the climate crisis. And yet nothing has been done."
 GRETA THUNBERG , LUISA NEUBAUER, ANGELA VALENZUELA

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Disaster Map Shows How Vulnerable Colorado Is to Climate-Fueled Wildfires

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Colorado Joins Global Climate Strike Friday

Photo: Andy Bosselman

Youth across the globe see the climate crisis unfolding in real time: Intensifying storms, hurricanes, heatwaves and wildfires, slow-burning disasters like drought and famine, and so much more. And they're not remaining silent.

The Colorado Youth Climate Coalition plans to join national strikes on December 6th 2019.

Adults also welcomed. Friday's event will kick off by the fountains on Wynkoop in front of Union Station at 11am on December 6th The march will proceed along the 16th street mall to the west steps of the Denver Capitol building.

In a recent article, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and allies wrote:

"For more than a year, children and young people from around the world have been striking for the climate. We launched a movement that defied all expectations, with millions of people lending their voices – and their bodies – to the cause. We did this not because it was our dream, but because we didn’t see anyone else taking action to secure our future. And despite the vocal support we have received from many adults – including some of the world’s most powerful leaders – we still don’t."

​Read the full article here.

SALIDA, Colo. – The National Wildlife Federation's updated interactive map marking wildfires, hurricanes and other extreme weather events linked to climate change hits especially close to home for Aaron Kindle, senior manager for the group's Western Sporting Campaigns.

Kindle and his family recently were evacuated as the Decker Fire near Salida began to spread. Kindle says he hopes the updated map will help Americans see how climate change has become the new normal.

"And that's the thing that really should wake us up, get our leaders doing something about it and take this more seriously,” says Kindle. “It's not a slow, creeping force any more. It's becoming an everyday, in-your-face type of thing that we need to get after doing something about."

Read the entire Public News Service story.

DENVER — In the wake of recent reports of fatal lung illness connected with the use of e-cigarettes, new research seems to confirm concerns about the health impacts of vaping.

Read the entire Public News Service story.​

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