Terrorizing we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter how does iran. Young people who are in the vanguard of efforts to avoid a climate catastrophe as Global Temperatures rise but how is ringback their activism different from the green movements of the past and how they compel well would lead us to act welcome to the strain. They could be in the final show of our special series tied to the covering climate now initiative we meet youth activists bringing fresh energy to the fight against Climate Change join the conversation through twitter and you tube. United nations says that we have just 11 years left to stop global heating rising to the point where millions of people will die and its manuals and members of generations who are demanding Climate Action to safeguard their future on friday hundreds of thousands of people and cities across the world started it weeklong Global Climate strike the young people at the forefront of the demonstrations and the run up to todays Climate Summit activists on saturday expressed their hopes their concerns and solutions the u. N. Headquarters in new york. For young people have been asking for a seat at the Decision Making to imagine the power of the movement you have created today the leader asking for a seat at your table our Online Community has also weighed in on the urgency of the battle against Climate Change will look. Because. Im not ready. To stand up to something to actually save. You. Because of the political establishment the course of the story the scientific reality the Climate Crisis we are in. She is a Core Committee leader at fridays for future and International Movement of School Students fighting Climate Change she is in new york. Is a photographer conservationist and climate activists in new delhi he is also involved with the fridays for future movement and. Founder of the allotment peaceful and tea is which aims to raise awareness of Climate Change impacts in afghanistan. In thailand going to school with climate warriors still welcome to the stream thank you so much excited to have this conversation with all of you and with their online communities i want to start online which is where so much of this organizing has started with a tweet that you sent not too long ago just a few days my home delhi you wrote is set to join indian cities to have no ground water by 2020 that means i am going to be stripped of our Water Resources and 120. 00 days including a video there its a topic that weve covered here on the stream but for you this is personal im on when was it that you knew that you were a climate activists when that hit home for you. I think india is this dime or slant that has such an amazing green covered in biodiversity and even the people here but just looking at the fact of how my own city new delhi is the most polluted city in the world and how our groundwater was running shot and heat waves are striking our city and the way i from my own eyes could see the wildlife in my city dwindling and managing that. Thats when it really struck me that if i dont take action right now and if i dont say that this is enough and children need a stake in the decisions that directly impacted affect their future i do less that theres no point of me sitting at home and not doing anything about this because this is a matter of us are viable and really you know put a lot of people to Climate Change might be a high pocket to go situation that is taking place in some far off place but for me as you said it hit home and its a reality for a lot of People Living or she it was a reality for you you are literally a Climate Change my current can you tell i wouldnt the story that meant that you had to leave mexico and now live in the united states. So i was born and raised in mexico i lived there till i was 13 years old and in 2015 my talents suffered from heavy rainfall and waste all dead in flooding from the majority of my town and that was the 1st time in which i encountered a Climate Crisis when i moved to new york city i saw the effect that here in sandy had had in the community and thats when i realized that the Climate Crisis follows its something that is that i think everyone everywhere but is that it is the fact being marginalized communities and communities of color the most and so i couldnt almost so just sit down and not do anything i thought im going to strike or just im going to strike because there is no other thing to do she away kind of activists youve got activists get together what do you talk about. We talk about when our next take is going to be when the numerically planning and strategy ok all right she asks elam a question. I want to ask you what is prior to you to be a climate activist are im sorry could you repeat the question please yes wired it was the thing that led you to be a climate actor all of the i wanted to as im starting in 2002 you know when the slots have exploded to be rich of course october missed on and i was our family were back we didnt look back to do 35 for last but also when i went back home disarm or and i really feel the scientifically the would do it was saying thats you know 16 person. Lift and greater was riser but to disney i could feel much more than that and there was that the time that i really wanted to to start. And to do something. So i hear the urgency of why you decided to get involved in your voice i want to share the perspective of someone else barry similarly honey for says i went on climate straight because as it is the Climate Change issue is a very serious predicament and it feels like it has been taken lightly while in reality our future is at stake and then like you talking about those high temperatures Climate Change has impacted our communities through the burial temperatures unpredictable rainfall patterns making it hard for agricultural productivity drying water sources and increased vulnerability i have i want to stay with you with this tweet because you are invited to come to the u. S. For this 1st ever global youth Climate Summit but you werent allowed what happened. So. Unfortunately or known september the u. S. Embassy in bangkok the. Nonimmigrant with. Drugs so unfortunately i couldnt. Go to new york to working with. A bigger you and your Climate Summit so youre watching the Climate Summit the kind of action summit from a distance let me show you something here on my laptop earlier on this morning the swedish activists got to to burke. As she was heading to the United Nations is im on my way to the u. N. Today im speaking to the General Assembly at the time of action summit this is such a crucial day World Leaders are gathering at the un in new york to decide on after each of the eyes of the world will be upon them this is i wonder if shes already thinking about what shes about to say because what she said made the news heres a recap this is all wrong. I shouldnt be up here. I should be back in school obviously the side of the ocean. Yet you will come to us young people for hope how dare you you have stolen my dreams my childhood with your empty words and yet im one of the trucks once people are suffering people are dying entire School Systems a collapsing we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and what you can talk about is money and fame are 2 of each time of Economic Growth how do you. 6 see a unlike many of us you actually know quite a lot we show you something a little already and something here this is from your to set and i think i love the way that you are very down to earth here you got an o. M. G. On your head and o. M. G. On gratis head i think thats what most people would do you received to as you came to new york with their the Media Conference youve been there with in the last couple of wakes so when she said that at the u. N. Earlier on today your thoughts were what. I was actually in the room as well and went to that that i saw that for her its not about. Being activated and i was being out there and i was making our voices heard or heard news about our interests and our lives and i was not being heard at the level that we should be it is about with fines not being acted on it is about our leaders not doing enough but doing too much talking and not enough action so like they were part of what that was we are watching you and. And you know because we are and i was there for most of the day ended on our list somebody and i was listening to every single gator one up there and i know that all of them call this crisis any murder but i dont know what theyre going to do to take action and so we are going to be here and were not going to strike you know were not going to stop. Because our work right now is the right awareness not the right. I want to share a video coming from someone who thinks very similarly and has that same passion in their voice this is petros is a climate activist in athens greece and heres what he told the stream i got involved with friends for a future because i believe that Climate Change that is and so we need to change that a lot of things are we believe they will be seen or work or even how education works but this is all for the sake of preserving the home. Because the earth is not something that we get from the oldest it is something that weve all read from the from the you generations. In these you know how. To preserve years and to really james. So you could hear there he says this is something that weve done from our elders i want to dip into a little bit of a debate thats happening online between people who say this is the older generations who have left us but this mass and others saying thats not quite there so have a listen to this or look at this tweet this is use climate activists who says im calling on the older generation to step up their game toward saving humanity and the planet in times of flooding more bridges and draining system should be built more Tree Planting this should be encouraged now is the time on the other hand we got this tweet from matthew who says this very conversation is creating an us versus them topic this is part of the problem and its a major factor in this mass so im going to give that to you an us versus them the older generation versus the Younger Generation where do you fall in that debate. You see i think the citizens that we have now especially the young people are to create extent and degree and run mentally conscious and politically of what needs to be done to call up the biodiversity crisis and the damage crisis that were facing right now i do not think that the us worse is them. That it is so big a crucial that it can undermine the entire topic which is Climate Change which will impact all of us equally probably impact the marginalised and disadvantaged communities 1st but in the long run its going to impact all of us but definitely you see just the fact that you have see kids on the panel here asking their leaders for the end of the planet and calling themselves you would activists that shouldnt be out of this shouldnt be a point that we have to teach and that we have to come to because i mean you have children out in the streets asking for the right to a safe future and it is not our responsibility to try that owns of a generation which was so what so long before probably before i was even born so i think that as my stance and my view on this theres a sense of leadership that is coming from the youve Climate Movement where adults are feeling like they need to now actually say 80 they are acting allen is that more power because you dont se have a power to vote you dont have political power but it is that your power to actually make the guilt an older generation. Well. Thats one thing i want to mention of our own to the nation or whether there were in the wall in making this problem a catastrophe for us or not well but they are not exactly the one that are in our cars so we are most of the high School Students or not in a position. Or Something Like that but the problem that we are facing the older generation also experience the problem with. Cause no one can look at the. Problems caused by the Climate Change at the moment. Not to could just consider the future but the older than the nation younger than the nation 3000000 the nation we are equally affected. I think we are just to blame them but we do require their assistance we do want to ask them to stand with us and to listen to us we dont want them to be in her. To be like again said the line with. Us blaming them its what we want their assistance and help. I think lives here on you tube agree with you so liz just writes in live saying i found grad as speech extremely powerful it brought me to tears as i know she is right we want to conveniences of life at the expense of our climate someone right under her comment there says this is in production he says honestly i believe its time for young people to take action most of us young people dont Pay Attention to whats going on around us even within young people its time to take action so she you see these comments that people are writing here is theyre watching you all speak and this conversation that were having touch was about the challenge in bringing other people to this fight whether theyre young or an older generations. I think that a big part of why a lot of people are not taking action is because they are desensitized from information and so i think that one of the most important things to address this is to bring personal storytelling into the mix when you bring personal storytelling with data people are 22 times more likely to remember something and one link one sibling story telling and narrative and when you change the narrative me change the culture and we need what we need is a culture in which we take care of the earth because that is our lifestyle just fact that the environment sorry the fact that the Environmental Movement is a movement should be. Agents the issue be part of who we are i love that you stay to tell us about storytelling and data so if our audience is that if were going to use that for our audience what story would you tell our audience so make them 22 percent more likely to Pay Attention to this conversation she go ahead i would tell them you know my town was affected by the Climate Crisis and it did not have the infrastructure to drain water or deeper structure to serve to come out of it. Better than what it was before and so that really shows you how long and communities and communities of color are most affected in the wrong 70 percent of adults are asked and in Lower Manhattan that is not the case and still be a fact that we have environmental racism and environmental Structural Racism mixed into the Climate Crisis is one of the reasons why we have to take action because this is about the unjustice of the Climate Crisis and what a crime and we would have been until we young people are bringing those voices to light and were saying enough is enough of black or present ation. I wanted to add the point with the personal story telling is the last summer for 2 nights i didnt have a sleep because of the 45. 00 degrees of temperature which is which not which is not the way i didnt used to be or currently it out now in the pool which used to be known for the having a really fresh air quality now i cant because of the indonesian fires at the moment. But i would want to say that i think one thing that we need to do is go to these villages and places where communities that are disadvantaged are necessary presented are really being affected by Climate Change and bring their stories to the forefront because at the end i mean we can imagine and think about what is happening to them but again the sacked is that for us its a situation for some of us and for people its a reality on a daily basis and how theyre suffering and how their weisss are being ignored by an inefficient policy structure that in my view even our conservation policies are supporting industrial objectives other than Environmental Standards and then bringing these stories is really what im on im so glad you said that because we have a video comment of someone saying something very similar her name is faith ward shes are going to organizer with a group called 0 hour and shes here in the us in ohio and she talks about the most marginalized communities so have a listen. 0 hour i think for myself and a lot of people on our team we understand that the Environmental Movement has to move beyond simple calls for conservation where the Climate Crisis and as we try to fix it we also have the chance to try to lead to strictly marginalized communities around communities indigenous communities those that have always been left behind a society tries to move forward with this crisis we have the opportunity to bring justice to them and try to fix things and fix the system has always loved people behind thats why were. So our audience couldnt see but all throughout that comment as it was playing online was bigger asli nodding his head in agreement im assuming im on what are you thinking. I completely agree i think this is a chance to get those communities that havent had a c. In policy making. May not solve the major award banks a chance at getting an equitable choice and chance at the future because you see i think at least in my country the Climate Crisis has resident notions of racism colonialism slavery and discrimination showing up as she you know she has said that you have these people who are living in such places and just because they had a Disadvantage Community they had been given less that africans even though theyre facing the brunt of other mistakes so i think its really important if you look at my country in the out once colonialism came here things like hunting was made illegal and large patches of forests were opened up to things like coaching or would be forestation and slavery into suit where needed dance would be pleased by in reserve species so its really important to give these people away because its going to affect everyone equally and you need Climate Justice its not only about Climate Action its about Climate Justice at the same time making connections are so many issues all connect up to how the climate is changing and i want to show you something and al guess ive already seen this in terms of the the attention that young activists are getting around the world were going to go to brussels and rio and bangkok just a little sliver of what it was like on september the 25 havent. Im here today because i feel like i am betrayed or abandoned by my governments i am disappointed that they wont accept a scientific truth beyond all this i am here to. So my hope my force can be heard by the who are protesting to have a habitable future and a habitable planet and to breathe food water me to dissolve this problem now what scientists have been saying has been happening for a long time and we havent done anything hes not wish to be in school because teachers teachers have to work in the future but if you dont do this theyll be no future for us to work in so thats the point of studying in school if there were to be gone. She a thing organizing a local climate strikes in new york. On regularly also. As a tactic what else are you doing what else are you able to do. Aside are going to be saying that climate strike in new york which had. 315000 people ive also been involved in policy advocacy so ive testified in this city so that new york city would declare a Climate Emergency and last week to talk to different senators on how they are talking to. And im seeing a lot of thank yous like im sure youve heard us say we dont want your credit we want your action and so to see all these senators saying you are the leaders were going to follow you is a very counterintuitive one they are supposed to rebuild leaders but i am doing a lot of this was getting involved in the political sector because we do need Political Action and i am also training new activists in my activism Training Program because of course the work continues so im bringing this up this is from greenpeace canada we just lived through the largest climate protest in World History spanning all 7 continents with global estimates of 4000000 people who wants to break that record next friday september 27th see you in the streets meaning that there is still more to come and just about a sentence whats your message for World Leaders. Well for the worlds leaders i really want them its not just about Scientific Evidence this code they were. Proposing given its quite a quite a bit of most are most often just to look at the current the problems that are caused by the Climate Change greg not was example of my country were unfortunately the war has been going on for the 40 years for the last 5 years the narrative of war has been changing from a war on terror to a war on drought in larger accessibility. In the past 12 months alone. 3 that more than 2000 civilians lost their lives between the guard and looked and we could do a whole new show on this topic alone thank you so much for bringing our plan and bringing our idea and understanding of the climate these activists around the world you bring perspective from afghanistan and thank you for bringing your perspective from delhi and as she a covered the u. S. 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