Climate: Greta guides young people to Bristol, thousands in the square

Several thousand people, mostly young people, gathered in Bristol, Great Britain, for the fourth edition of a climate change protest led by Greta Thunberg, the 17-year-old Swedish activist who has become a global symbol. Local police closed several streets in the English city, garrisoning the whole area of ​​the demonstration, which began at College Green with the meetings of Greta and others, and continued with a procession.
The initiative, Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate (BYS4C), is announced as a strike, with an invitation to students to desert lessons for one day. Invitation that many have collected despite the police warning to parents about the potential risks for the "safety of children" given the influx and alarms about the inevitable inconveniences to local transport.
Greta, who also met Malala in Bristol two days ago, with whom she exchanged compliments and acknowledgments, said she was pleased by the "strength" of the ecological movement and the youthful response in the British city.

"They won't silence us, because we are the change." So Greta Thunberg, in her brief speech from the stage in front of thousands and thousands of students (30,000, according to the organizers) gathered for the strike from the lessons of the Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate: youth protest on the topic of overheating of the animated Earth today in person by the 17-year-old environmentalist who has become a global symbol in the generational battle for the future of the planet. "The change will come, whether you like it or not," added the Swedish activist, turning defiantly to the world of adults and politics, while the crowd praised her name, "Greta, Greta!". Finally the way to the procession through the manned streets of policemen of the city: "Let's march!".