If this is how much politicians care about climate change...

Parliament is debating climate change for the first time in two years…

…and I count just 10 government MPs in the chamberhttps://t.co/Gcf6o5Xlhh pic.twitter.com/uCYlJELAP5

— Simon Evans (@DrSimEvans) February 28, 2019

... no wonder school children across the world are on strike.

As MP Zac Goldsmith puts it:

If you look at the trends, we are not heading for that apocalyptic 2 degree rise, we are heading something that looks more like 3 degrees, the consequences of which we cannot possibly estimate.

... the idea of children missing a few hours of geometry or PE to wake our political system up is somehow the wrong thing to do just seems ... absurd.