Young activists are growing up in a world that’s warming faster than scientists had predicted. For them, the climate crisis is personal.
Vanessa Nakate was 21 when deadly floods inundated vast swaths of East Africa in 2018. She didn't consider herself a climate activist at the time, but soon after that disaster she and her younger siblings and cousins decorated placards and started climate protests in her home city of Kampala, the capital of Uganda.
As intensifying storms, devastating wildfires, and unrelenting drought wreaked havoc in Africa and around the world, Nakate publicly called out governments for not doing enough to make the Earth habitable for future generations. She says the youth understands the urgency of divorcing from fossil fuels much better than older generations."I want to see leaders, governments, and corporations rise up for the people," Nakate told CNN.
Ugandan climate activist on Biden: Now is the time for leaders to take responsibility 09:42She says she realized that if government leaders aren't going to take concrete steps to justly transition away from fossil fuels and stop rampant deforestation, she needed to take a more holistic approach to address the multiple layers of crises in Uganda has been facing: unsafe learning conditions, energy poverty and gender inequity.
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