NEW YORK: For years, teenager Nora Gell from New York had learned about the environment and recycling at school, but her commitment to protecting the planet ended there.
"I feel like I have an obligation to do something," Gell tells AFP, fashioning cardboard cutouts of waves to hold aloft during this week's coordinated worldwide climate protests. It is not known how many people will attend but celebrities and non-governmental organisations have called for large numbers of people to take to the streets.He has been handing out flyers at school and talking non-stop to fellow pupils to encourage them to join the march.
Gutierrez has been able to convince ten kids to attend so far, but hopes he can get 20 by the end of the week.New York authorities have given their blessings to the one million children in over 1,700 schools in the US financial capital to miss school for the event.
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