How the Climate Crisis Fueled the Youth Protests Roiling France

How the climate crisis fueled the youth protests roiling France

Youth protests for better school conditions have prompted a national political crisis; lack of adaptation to a hotter world is part of the story.

How the climate crisis has fueled the youth protests roiling France

Inside Climate News reports: By the time Cléo made it to Greek class, she had gone completely pale. It was a Wednesday in June during France’s second consecutive heat wave this year, and the 16-year-old was struggling to cope with the rising temperatures. She pushed through, thinking she was just tired. But the following day at her sweltering high school on the eastern edge of Paris, nausea and a desperate thirst gripped her. The school nurse, r…