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MillionsKexpected to hit the streets on Friday for the Global Climate Strike started by students and young people as a protest against inaction on climate change. And plenty of them are wielding exceptional signs.

Inspired by the actions of Swedish teen activist Great Thunberg, and set days before the U.N. Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23, climate strikes kicked off across the globe on Friday, starting with the Asia Pacific region. Hundreds of thousands turned up in cities across Australia and New Zealand, across parts of Asia in capitals like Dhaka, Islamabad, Bangkok, and Delhi, and throughout the Solomon Islands and Kiribati in the Pacific region.

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Protests also occurred in Kenya and South Africa, and across the UK in London, Manchester, Bristol, Oxford, Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin, and other cities. In Europe, strikes are happening in Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Hamburg, Gdynia, Athens, and elsewhere.

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In the U.S., strikes will happen in San Francisco, Chicago, D.C. and more, including New York, where Thunberg herself will protest. 

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Of course, no protest is complete without some killer signs, which make statements at once hilarious and disheartening, hopeful and wildly frustrated.

Here are some of the best from across the globe...

Sydney, Australia. Credit: Mark Evans/Getty Images New Delhi, India. Credit: LAURENE BECQUART/AFP/Getty Images Athens, Greece. Credit: Nicolas Koutsokostas/NurPhoto via Getty Images New Delhi, India. Credit: LAURENE BECQUART/AFP/Getty Images Nicosia, Cyprus. Credit: IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU/AFP/Getty Images London, UK. Credit: BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images Mumbai, India. Credit: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images London, UK. Credit: Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images London, UK. Credit: Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images Hessen, Kassel. It reads, "Grandma, what were polar bears?" Credit: Uwe Zucchi/picture alliance via Getty Images Sydney, Australia. Credit: Mark Evans/Getty Images Milan, Italy. Credit: Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images Jakarta, Indonesia. Credit: GOH CHAI HIN/AFP/Getty Images Cambridge, UK. Credit: joe giddens/PA Images via Getty Images Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable

With more strikes set to take place across the global throughout Friday, there will be many more where they came from...

Additional reporting by Siobhan Neela-Stock.

UPDATE: Sept. 20, 2019, 1:50 p.m. EDT Updated with additional images.

Topics Activism Social Good

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