Today's youth display admirable and unusual maturity in campaigning now to cut greenhouse gas emissions, even though those are not likely to kill them until a few decades from now.

Climate emergency protest in Australia: "NSW is Burning, Sydney is Choking."

We should have acted before it became an emergency. Our response was blocked by corrupt leaders, starting with Dubya.

We should make it a crime to continue operating fossil fuel facilities, and hold companies' major owners responsible for the crime.

Instead of jailing the poor suspects because they can't afford bail and calling them "flight risks," let's jail the rich suspects because they might bribe someone, and call them "corruption risks."