Artemisa Xakriabá, who lives in the Brazilian Amazon, also spoke in NYC last Friday. “If it goes on like this, 20 years from now my house will become a desert and my people will be at risk of becoming history.”
I've been thinking/reading a lot about Greta Thunberg and whiteness. I find her very moving, I believe she is genuine and I hope she can resist becoming a symbol for corporate greenwashing. Here is a thread of other young people to listen to as well.
I also use Greta's name to get people's attention. In this, I talk to youth across the country, in BC, MB, ON and NS including Miyâwata Stout, a Cree 12-year-old.
Ridhima Pandey, 11, of India, and Carl Smith, 17, Yupik of Alaska, two of 16 youth (incl GT) that have filed a landmark UN complaint against five of the world's biggest carbon polluters.
Other plaintiffs are interviewed here, from Cape Town, the Marshall Islands, Palau and Nigeria. They want the climate crisis to be declared a children's rights crisis.
You get the point. Climate change is already hurting racialized and Indigenous communities most of all, and climate justice means prioritizing their voices. And one teenager shouldn't be made to carry the world on her shoulders, anyway.
No, our fight to save the planet didn't start today with the
#ClimateStrike
and it doesn't end today either. Many of us have been putting in the work for years to save our planet. Don't just amplify our voices today, but every day and support our solutions to save us.