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How we handle climate change will forever change the future of humanity and our planet! We must act now!

The first step to defeating climate change is to raise awareness. You can help raise awareness by signing this petition and posting it on your social media to encourage your friends and followers to sign it too!

I am a 16-year-old girl from New York and I've decided to step up and fight for climate action because our future depends on it!

We only have 11 years before climate change causes irreversible damage to our planet. However, there are still people who choose to ignore the overwhelming amount of scientific evidence presented to them and deny the threat of climate change. There are many more who simply don't understand the full extent of the climate emergency and don't perceive it as an immediate threat.

This is mainly due to the lack of reporting and coverage of the climate emergency in the mainstream media. Major news outlets are not treating the climate emergency as the dire emergency it is. The future of humanity is at stake and yet many influential newspapers and news channels are barely reporting on it. Yes, there are many climate journalists reporting on climate change but their articles are not making the front covers of the newspapers. We have to give them the attention they deserve! The major news networks are more concerned with petty politics than the future of humanity!

If newspapers around the world started seriously reporting on the climate emergency, more people will become aware of the crisis and will demand climate action. The media has the power to help us defeat climate change. However, they choose not to help by reporting on other issues not related to the climate emergency.

Generation after generation, we've been polluting our air with harmful greenhouse gases. Now, we are finally facing the consequences of our mistakes. The world is burning, the ice caps are melting, and hundreds of species have gone extinct. However, because the media doesn't treat climate change as a real threat, people choose to look away and ignore the biggest crisis humans have ever had to face.

Sign and post this petition on Twitter and Facebook to let the major news outlets around the world know that they need to be seriously reporting on the climate emergency if we want to win the battle against climate change. I also urge you to spread awareness of the climate emergency to your friends, family, and peers. We must act now before it's too late. Our future depends on it!

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