Young climate activists warn their elders: Stop destroying the planet
3 years, 1 month ago

Young climate activists warn their elders: Stop destroying the planet

LA Times  

After the cops showed up in an urban forest and detained Manisha Dhinde, one of them asked her: “What is this fashion of protesting for the environment?” “It isn’t fashion,” Dhinde snapped back on that day two years ago. “The planet is warming, the animals are disappearing, the rivers are dying, and our plants don’t flower like they did before,” Txai Suruí, a 24-year-old Indigenous climate activist from the Brazilian Amazon, told world leaders on the opening day of the United Nations COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland, this week. “I just want to start by saying that you should be absolutely ashamed of yourself for the devastation that you have caused to communities all over the world,” MacDonald said the next day to one of the world’s most powerful oil men, interrupting an otherwise staid panel discussion on climate change with an all-out declaration of war. “Every single day that you fail to stop making evil decisions is a day that the death toll from the climate crisis rises,” activist Lauren MacDonald told one oil executive. India’s government officials always keep tribal communities “in the dark,” Manisha Dhinde says.

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Climate warriors fighting some of the ‘greatest crises humanity has ever seen’
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate warriors fighting some of the ‘greatest crises humanity has ever seen’

LA Times  

Aru Shiney-Ajay’s awakening to the climate crisis began in her late teens. “That’s really what drove me to get involved in Sunrise.” The Sunrise Movement was founded in 2017 by young climate activists frustrated by the mismatch between an accelerating global disaster and the staid pace of existing environmental organizations. Youth protested at CNN’s L.A. office to “demand that they …

For these California kids, the fight against climate change is personal
3 months, 2 weeks ago

For these California kids, the fight against climate change is personal

LA Times  

Madigan Traversi’s world changed in the fall of 2017, but the forces responsible for her transformation had been brewing for a long time. “That was the first time I was able to associate climate change with this wildfire I had been directly affected by,” said Traversi, now a 19-year-old activist and sophomore at UC Berkeley who promotes efforts to strengthen …

Our climate change challenge
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Our climate change challenge

LA Times  

There’s no escaping the damage we’ve done to our planet. In 2015, almost 200 nations agreed to try to limit global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius — or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit — above preindustrial levels as part of the Paris climate accord. “At this point, it is really difficult to see a path to keeping warming below 1.5 degrees,” …

A brewing storm
5 months, 4 weeks ago

A brewing storm

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: In the summer that went by, the city of Bengaluru was trending on social media; this time not for its famed cool clime but for the deadly heat wave as temperatures touched 39°C, a number unheard of in namma ooru. I have never experienced such heat before,” shares Sargam Parashar, who found it extremely hard to concentrate on anything, …

Celebrating interventions by women on climate change on International Women’s Day
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Celebrating interventions by women on climate change on International Women’s Day

The Hindu  

A 34-year-old-marginal women farmer from Purulia who runs a millet café, a 38-year-old woman farmer from Jharkhand who switched to solar powered pump, and a 41-year-old cyclist from Kolkata, the stories of 15 such women was the highlight of a symposium on Climate change in Kolkata on the occasion of International Women’s Day on Friday. Officials of different consulates, representatives …

Include indigenous communities in mental health and climate change discourse: Experts
1 year, 3 months ago

Include indigenous communities in mental health and climate change discourse: Experts

The Hindu  

Rising sea levels, melting glaciers, wildfires, pandemics. “Both the mental health discourse and the climate change discourse are Eurocentric, reflecting very privileged narratives that then promote individual solutions,” said Raj Mariwala, director at Mariwala Health Initiative. “We need to critically engage with and question some of the existing structures, look at how to do psychosocial justice, and question neoliberalism and …

Climate activist Nakate urges rich countries to cancel debt, grant climate finance at Paris summit
1 year, 6 months ago

Climate activist Nakate urges rich countries to cancel debt, grant climate finance at Paris summit

Associated Press  

PARIS — Facing an audience packed with world leaders and finance officials in suits, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate silenced the room, then made everyone listen to some uncomfortable facts. Dressed in a black t-shirt with the slogan “Divest Now,” Nakate said the silence was for “people around the world who are already suffering, starving, being displaced, dropping out of …

Eco-anxiety and India’s young
1 year, 8 months ago

Eco-anxiety and India’s young

The Hindu  

It was December 21, 2012, and 14-year-old Shaarvari Shreenath was convinced that the world was ending. “It’s a lazy response to the climate crisis; it doesn’t allow a deeper engagement with the here and now,” he says. Holding up a mirror to people’s anxieties “Apocalyptic content has always existed in comic books and video games,” says Aniruddho Chakroborty, a film …

Do people yet to be born have climate change rights?
1 year, 10 months ago

Do people yet to be born have climate change rights?

BBC  

Do people yet to be born have climate change rights? Jenny Evans/Getty Images The billions upon billions of people who inhabit the future will face the consequences of our decisions today, including on climate change The act puts into statute a requirement for all public bodies – from health boards and local authorities to the Welsh government itself – to …

Greta Thunberg on how having Asperger’s shapes her approach to climate crisis
2 years, 2 months ago

Greta Thunberg on how having Asperger’s shapes her approach to climate crisis

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Greta Thunberg has revealed how being diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome has shaped her approach to …

Photos: Young protesters demand climate action worldwide
2 years, 3 months ago

Photos: Young protesters demand climate action worldwide

Al Jazeera  

Young activists staged a coordinated “global climate strike” to highlight the effects of global warming and demand more aid for poor countries hit by weather chaos. Demonstrators also took to the streets in Jakarta, Tokyo, Rome, Berlin and Montreal carrying banners and posters with slogans such as, “It’s not too late.” “If Jakarta is flooded, everyone who has money can …

Nakate: Leaders are missing the human face of climate change
2 years, 3 months ago

Nakate: Leaders are missing the human face of climate change

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Vanessa Nakate’s climate activism over the past three years has propelled her to the world stage. These endeavors led UNICEF to announce her as their new goodwill ambassador this week, with UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell saying Nakate’s appointment to the role “will help ensure that the voices of children and young people are never cut out …

Why fighting climate change is a laughing matter (sometimes)
2 years, 4 months ago

Why fighting climate change is a laughing matter (sometimes)

Live Mint  

We don’t laugh enough. But also, scientific research shows the way the media covers climate change — which is often summed up plainly as “doom and gloom” — has the unintended effect of making people feel more disengaged. In 2009, Peruvian citizen Eduardo Gold splashed Andean mountains where glaciers had melted with white paint, arguing it could help replicate the …

These three young activists are changing the conversation on the climate crisis
2 years, 6 months ago

These three young activists are changing the conversation on the climate crisis

ABC  

They're young, they're smart and they're determined to bring the voices of those most affected by the climate crisis to the fore. "While the African continent is on the front lines of the climate crisis, it is not on the front pages of the world's newspapers," she says. "It felt like a complete erasure of my existence at the press …

The AP Interview: 'We want justice' on climate, Nakate says
3 years ago

The AP Interview: 'We want justice' on climate, Nakate says

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. That's well above the goal …

The AP Interview: ‘We want justice’ on climate, Nakate says
3 years ago

The AP Interview: ‘We want justice’ on climate, Nakate says

Associated Press  

KAMPALA, Uganda — The capital of Uganda coughs itself awake on weekdays under a soft blanket of smog. That’s well above the goal of limiting warming to 1.5C — and would be “a death sentence for so many communities on the front lines of the climate crisis,” Nakate said. But it is not enough to simply listen to Africa’s climate …

‘We’re already in a living hell’: Greta Thunberg joins young climate activists outside Cop26 to demand faster action
3 years, 1 month ago

‘We’re already in a living hell’: Greta Thunberg joins young climate activists outside Cop26 to demand faster action

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Young climate activists from across the world took to the streets of Glasgow on Monday …

Climate strikes: Why are young people across the world taking to the streets?
3 years, 2 months ago

Climate strikes: Why are young people across the world taking to the streets?

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Watch live as Greta Thunberg joins the Fridays for Future climate strike in Berlin A study published in the …

How the youth is shaping the response to climate change
3 years, 8 months ago

How the youth is shaping the response to climate change

Live Mint  

Encouraging the younger generation to take charge and own the future of the planet, Pepsico's former CEO Indra Nooyi has said the youth has begun to shape the response to climate change and water security through its innovative thinking and appetite for risk. Rest assured, you not just have a voice, but that voice is being heard by the right …

Climate change disproportionately affects women – but they can also provide the solution
3 years, 9 months ago

Climate change disproportionately affects women – but they can also provide the solution

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The World Health Organisation sets out how events like mass flooding or extreme droughts can lead to an increase …

Climate change is a matter of life and death says Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate
4 years, 2 months ago

Climate change is a matter of life and death says Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate

Firstpost  

She said, “It is time for leaders to leave their comfort zones and see the danger that we are in and do something about it.” Leading Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate on Wednesday said climate change presents world leaders with “life or death” choices, pressing them to treat it as an urgent crisis. “Climate change is a nightmare that affects …

World’s youth rallies against climate change
4 years, 2 months ago

World’s youth rallies against climate change

Hindustan Times  

United under Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, young people rallied worldwide on Friday to demand urgent action to halt catastrophic climate change, in their first global protest since the coronavirus crisis began. Thunberg and a handful of members of her group, Fridays for Future, assembled outside parliament with signs bearing slogans including “Stop Denying the Climate Is Dying”. In Stockholm, Thunberg …

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