West Lothian teens active in the climate change protests will be joining a school strike on 25 September alongside many others to demand more action on the climate crisis - organised by Scottish Youth Climate Strike (SYCS).
In Edinburgh they will gather in front of the Scottish Parliament at 11am for a socially distanced protest. Fort William will also be striking outside Lochaber High School from 9am to 11am and Inverness will be protesting at Falcon Square from 11am to 1pm.
There will be no physical protests at other normal school strike locations - Glasgow and Aberdeen -as they are currently under increased coronavirus restrictions.
Instead, people from these cities are encouraged to take part in online actions, such as taking a photo with a sign and posting it on social media.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, over 40,000 people took to the streets across Scotland on 20 September 2019.
As physical protesting no longer became safe, the strikers switched to digital striking and other online actions.
The strikers have two main demands from this protest: To kick-start a programme of public green job creation and end public money for fossil fuel developments.
West Lothian campaigner Dylan Hamilton (16) said: “We have around eight years left of our global carbon budget, to stay below a 1.5°C increase in global temperature from pre-industrial levels.
That is completely unacceptable and a failure from governments all around the world. We need drastic action and we cannot wait and focus on our education while watching the world burn around us.”
