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The Chimes

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The Chimes

The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes

Youth climate change protesters are misguided

Environmentally hazardous products like fossil fuels are actually necessary to economic development.
The youth-led protest movements, while well-intentioned, ultimately fails to focus on the core of the issue.
Marc DeJager, Staff Writer (Fall 2019) October 4, 2019

(This story was originally published in print on Oct. 3, 2019). “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.” This was one of the opening...