Students walk out of school to take part in a march to demand action on the global climate crisis on September 20, 2019 in New York City. In what could be the largest climate protest in history and inspired by the teenage Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, people around the world are taking to the streets to demand action to combat climate change. | Getty Images

?You gotta walk the talk, bike the talk.? Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old face of the youth climate protest taking place in cities around the globe today, certainly knows how to make an entrance. She arrived in New York City aboard the Malizia II, a solar-powered yacht, on August 28, in preparation for a series of speeches at the UN and Washington D.C. that calmly, cooly, and effectively told the powers that be to stop talking and start acting. But she?s far from alone, as crowds of youth protestors, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, worldwide, speak to the power of the climate strike movement, as well as the importance these activists and students place in reforming the transportation system as part of a larger, society-wide environmental overhaul.
Ethan Wright, 19, a freshman at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and a director of Zero Hour, a climate action group, carpooled with friends to reach the D.C. subway system, which they rode to reach the protest in the nation?s capital.
?We hope this protest and these strikes leads to a cultural shift away from fossil fuels an...