Make Polluters Pay

Attend this global livestream Youth Climate Talk

24 January 2026

This is What Climate Change Looks Like

In February 2025, students from Palisades Charter High School re-demonstrated at the now-burned-out site of their Sept. 2024 Make Polluters Pay demonstration. They re-created the signs, which had burned up in the January 2025 fire. Their town, Pacific Palisades, was one of two destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires. The other city was Altadena, California PHOTO: Steve Engelmann

Calling all youth! Calling all who care about the future!

They’ve had enough! Pacific Palisades high school youth who suffered through terrifying wildfires want you to hear their personal stories of enduring the mayhem of wildfires which destroyed their school and their town a year ago in January 2025, and their path forward. They have joined forces with students from neighboring Santa Monica High School and have written a petition to present to their elected officials, asking for support for a pending California State bill to make polluters (companies) pay for environmental destruction they cause.

A talk by students from both schools will be broadcast globally via Zoom on 24 January 2026, live from the burn scar of their school—their ground zero. Attend in-person or online. Reserve here to receive more info and attend. Learn how you can join the Make Polluters Pay campaign.

Organize a watch gathering. We encourage you to publicize this event. Organize and invite friends, families, business owners, local politicians and civic leaders, and the media to hear this talk at watch gatherings—at home, at your school, your club, your place of worship, or your town’s meeting hall. It’s up to us—start the discussions!

People over Profits. These young people want others to help build this campaign, especially youth from other high schools. Fossil fuel corporations and other entities who have been directly responsible for extracting fossil fuels, and knowingly originating pollution, warming, and climate change in the name of making exorbitant profits, should be held accountable to pay for damages caused by extreme weather events, such as wildfires, drought, and flooding, brought on by a warming Earth.

This talk is organized by the Fridays for Future Newsletter and the Northern Arizona Climate Change Alliance (NAZCCA). If your group would like to become a sponsor for these students and their campaign, please click here.