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The Media Snubs the Youth Climate Movement

16Apr

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The Media Snubs the Youth Climate Movement

By Quinn Patatwardhan On March 25, 2022, Fridays For Future staged hundreds of rallies around the world to protest the wealth disparity surrounding greenhouse gas emissions. Despite attendance from thousands across the world, the media largely snubbed the event. Large outlets published very few articles covering the strike, and those that were written were mostly allocated to each paper’s “local” section. One of the few exceptions was an article published in the New York Times, which highlighted why coverage of the strikes is vital. According to a New York Times project that surveyed 10,000 people between the ages of 16 and 25, 75% of respondents said they thought that the “the future is frightening.” Strikers at the March 25 events were mostly within this age demographic...

Time Bomb: The Environmental Effects of Detonated Explosives

By Quinn Patwardhan “War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin.” This lyric by The Temptations will survive throughout the rest of humanity. Not a single person will ever be able to justify war. Its effects include the worst that can be inflicted upon humanity: famine, illness, fire, and destruction. Many of Western Generation Z hasn’t witnessed the outbreak of war, at least on a global scale. We have been able to live with the false assumption that war is something we have left in the past, in history books. We have been told that the U.S. invasion of the Middle East was justified and had a minor impact. We have been lied to. War has been a prevalent controlling force of humanity since its very start. Weapons have gone from rocks to swords, to bows and arrows, to guns to bombs ...

Phaseout of Coal in South Africa Through Funding from the US, UK, and EU

By Quinn Patwardhan, Sidwell Friends School During the COP26 Summit held in early Nov., the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union announced a partnership with South Africa that would reduce the nation’s reliance on coal. South Africa is currently responsible for around 1.29% of global carbon dioxide emissions, making it the world’s 12th biggest emitter of CO2. Coal provides over 80% of South Africa’s energy and serves as one of the nation’s most important exports, explaining the country’s reliance on coal from both an energy and an economic standpoint. Furthermore, South Africa’s state utility company Eskom is in over $27 billion of debt, caused in part by its investments in coal power plants. All of this has led the U.S., U.K., and the E.U. to grant South Africa ...