Photo by: Albert Camilleri

Hundreds of students took to the streets together on Friday as a united front in an effort to lobby for concrete action on climate change.

KSU, Kunsill Studenti Universitarji said that it worked together with other local activists, youth organisations and student societies to participate in the international strike for Climate Change.

The march ended in front of the House of Representatives where the demonstrators in the march met another group that had already assembled there.

KSU stated that it hopes that these actions by a united student body “will not go unnoticed and this will be reflected sooner rather than later in the policy-making process. ”

The KSU President, Carla Galea when speaking to the crowd, stressed that, “we are polluting the air we breathe in, we are building as if our land is infinite and we are consuming our natural resources in an unsustainable way.”

She called out current world leaders on what she said is, “their duty and responsibility to safeguard a better world for future generation,” the current situation is akin to “causing a problem and dumping its consequences on future generations, leaving its solution up to them,” she added.

KSU remarked that that they were encouraged by the presence of the Education Minister Evarist Bartolo, who had officially endorsed this demonstration, among other politicians.

They concluded by saying that “we hope that all politicians and political candidates present at the march put climate action at the forefront of their political agenda and work.”

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