COMMENT: What do you want if you have an issue that needs attention? A spotlight on it. And this climate change protest tomorrow's got it.
It doesn't matter which way your argument falls on climate change, the fact is we're all talking about it. In fact my daughter, who's not even at secondary school yet, is talking about it.
She's worried about global warming and climate change, she said this randomly after school the other day. That can be sheeted back to the kind of education kids are getting these days - highlighting issues facing future generations is no bad thing. As long as it's balanced.
A school teacher emailed me the other day saying he makes sure he teaches his students both sides of the climate change debate. Some teachers say they won't teach it at all, others preach it as gospel.
What we need is balance.
Schools and even pre-schools are adept at educating about the environment these days: we have garden-to-table programmes, litter-less lunches, no-plastic policies. Our kids since primary school have had to take their lunches in non-plastic wrap, and bring home their rubbish.