<span style="color: #222222;">In Britain, thousands of school children went on a strike yesterday in protest against climate change, with hundreds rallying in London's Parliament Square. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">There were similar protests in dozens of towns and cities, including Brighton, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Many of the children said, their schools had shown them leniency in attending the "Youth Strike 4 Climate" event, part of a Europe-wide movement that has seen walkouts in Belgium, France, Germany, and Sweden.</span><br />'' <br />'' The movement was inspired by the actions of Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old girl who held a solitary protest outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm last year.<br />''  <br />