Toby Podmore

Changing climates and Climate Change

Environnement Démocratie

If you are anything like me, the political activism of your high school years was either non-existent or, in essence, largely symbolic and not very effective. It will have been with no small sense of shame, then, that you watched a determined group of Belgian schoolchildren go on strike to protest the lack of action in confronting the biggest challenge of multiple generations: climate change. Truth flows from the mouths of babes, as the scripture tells us, and in this case there is no ambiguity. A radical shift is needed, now, immediately, if we are to avoid catastrophe. In this article, we examine how there are a number of different movements within Brussels which look to bypass traditional political channels and provide solutions to the issues.