Friday 20th September saw what is effectively the largest mass climate strike to date. In events coordinated around the world, demonstrators directed their fears and frustrations at their business and political leaders over an uncertain future, a future that this relatively small group of people has the biggest influence over.

In London around 100,000 people turned up for the demonstration. Many of those were schoolchildren and young adults who took the day off from school, classes, or work as a small act of defiance that said: business is not normal. Demonstrations mostly draw an older crowd, so it was exciting to see so many motivated young people gathered outside Westminster.

The frequency of climate activism in 2019 seemed to be increasing along with the general public’s understanding of climate change. COVID-19 forces the discussion to be mostly online, but it will soon be important to face the explosive growth of a world post-recovery head on again.