This 17-Year-Old Slept in a Boat for a Week to Protest Climate Change – Free – Vice

That’s the sign draped over the bow of the boat where Jordan McAuliff, a 17-year-old in Silver Spring, Maryland, slept all last week. Parked on a trailer just blocks away from her high school, it’s Jordan’s warning to her town that the streets could be underwater within decades.

“The water is rising in our communities, around our schools and our houses,” she said. “Soon we might not be able to drive there anymore.”

Jordan couldn’t skip school Friday like thousands of other kids…