Dozens of school children sacrificed a day of their Easter holiday to protest against climate change.

The event in George Square followed a global strike on March 15, when hundreds of young people walked out of school to demand rapid action to tackle the climate change crisis.

Youth strikes, made up a coalition of students from Youth Strike 4 Climate, the UK Student Climate Network and the UK Youth Climate Coalition, were simultaneously taking place in cities across the UK.

The movement was started by Swedish student Greta Thunberg, who staged a solo school strike in August.

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The latest protest took place during the school holidays and saw smaller numbers turn out than for the previous two events but there was no shortage of enthusiasm among the youngsters who passed the time by chanting calls to action, playing guitar and holding an impromptu ceilidh,

“If we don’t do it, who will? It’s our generation who is going to be affected most of all by it so we have to do something”, said 20-year-old Jack Clark.

“I think people are starting to notice. We’re not going to stop.

“Across Scotland, governments need to get radical with their green policies. They need to take action, especially on big corporate businesses, they are the biggest polluters.”

Andrew McGlynn, 21, added: “The old are quite conservative, and I hold nothing against them but in fifty-years time it will be the young people who will have to deal with global warming and rising sea levels, so this is very much our issues to challenge and our issue to take.”

“I’m here because I care about our future. It’s really annoying that we keep getting told to go to school and learn when really what’s the point if we don’t have a good enough future.

“We need to care about the survival of this planet and not let it die. The government has not been listening to us for too long. We need to stand up and keep making sure our voices are heard”, added Michael Sinclair, 14, from Williamwood High School.

Among the crowd was Amber Bremner, 7, who said: "If you keep on littering, it will be worse for everyone and animals will die and we should stop cutting down trees."

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Ella Youngs, 12, from Shawlands, attended the protest with her mum.

She said: "“The world is getting really hot. People need to stop using coal and taking it out of the ground.

“I think we should stop using cars as much and stop using so much plastic.”