Klaus Hurrelmann talks to Welt about German school strikes and youth environmental activism.
For weeks, young Germans have been skipping school on Fridays to participate in demonstrations in Berlin and drum up support for environmental policies. The young people, who are following an appeal by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to strike, are representative of a growing political awareness among the youth, says Professor of Public Health and Education Klaus Hurrelmann. Read an interview on Welt.de about what motivates this generation to get involved.
Read the full interview on Welt.de (in German).
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Klaus Hurrelmann, Senior Professor of Public Health and Education