Meet the youth activists speaking truth to world leaders about climate change.
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“The security guards were pretty amused,” Greenberg said, but the two of them were swiftly escorted out by eight members of security and NYPD. Saseedhar, who lives in New York, said family members in Chennai, India, hadn’t had access to clean water in months. If she had been allowed inside the conference, she said, she would have demanded the oil executives pay climate reparations to communities destroyed by the effects of fossil fuel extraction and global warming.
Eleala Avantale, Tuvalu Red Cross Society, Youth Climate Summit, the United Nations, New York City, September 21, 2019.Edward Shadwig, Micronesian Red Cross Society, Youth Climate Summit, the United Nations, September 21, 2019.“The sea ice in the Arctic has disappeared by 75 percent in only 40 years,” Jennifer Francis, a scientist who studies the effects of rapid Arctic warming on extreme weather patterns, told me. Like many of her peers in the room, she had seen the report just hours earlier.
; the smoke that carried to Davis, where she was staying, badly exacerbated Villaseñor’s asthma. When she returned to New York, she was sick for weeks. Her mother, Kristin Hogue, a doctoral student, brought her daughter along to her graduate classes in climate science, not realizing how closely Villaseñor was paying attention; spurred on by Thunberg’s speech at COP24, she began to draw the connections between frequent, devastating wildfires and human-triggered climate change.
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