Senior Luke Bowen is on the Green Team with Ivan. One thing disheartens him about discussing climate change through social media — it can seem like a trend.
“Like even Gretta, like sometimes she's super big and then she kinda like fades away again. Like anything that goes like trends, which is kind of unfortunate,” Luke said.
Fellow senior and Green Team member Natalie Smink thinks those trends demonstrate how climate change is a global issue. When she posts things on the Green Team’s social accounts, she uses the hashtag #GlobalClimateStrike. That way, people from all over the world see it.
“You could see a post from someone in Europe, striking at the same time as someone in the U.S,” Natalie said. “It does make it kind of a trend where it will disappear, but it gives that unity to begin with. And I think that's what the world really needs.”
These memes don’t just live online. You can see them printed out on picket signs and posters, when teens go on climate strikes. Dagoberto Grijalva, another senior on the Green Team, points out why he thinks millions have turned out to those protests.
“It was social media that did that. And if social media can organize things such as that, like just imagine what more it could create,” Grijalva said.
For these students at Palmer and Montview High, climate memes are no joke. They create an online community of young people concerned about their future, and their collective voice has sparked a movement of youth-led climate activism.
https://www.cpr.org/2020/03/05/memes-about-climate-change-help-teens-laugh-about-their-fears-can-they-also-get-them-to-act/
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