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There are no words for “climate change” in the language of the Turkana community in northern Kenya, something that prompted campaigner Ikal Angelei to take a different approach when she began her environmental activism more than a decade ago. Rather than framing climate change as a global environmental risk, Angelei explained how decreasing rainfall and parched riverbeds threatened local people’s basic right to access water. “It really is the effects on people’s lives and livelihoods that allow them to interact with the term ‘climate change,’” said Angelei, 41, cofounder of Friends of Lake Turkana, an environmental group in Kenya. From worsening droughts to

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