Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has expressed concern over the rising levels of pollution in India s national capital through a post on Instagram. The 45-year-old actor, a vocal advocate for a clean environment, on Monday shared a post by Extinction Rebellion, a global climate movement, on the social media site.
The young environmental groups leading Indiaâs new climate activism 15 March 2021
Young environmentalists participate in a climate strike to protest against government inaction on climate change, as part of global demonstrations in the âFridays for Futureâ movement, in Delhi on 20 September 2019. K Asif / India Today Group / Getty Images
Young environmentalists participate in a climate strike to protest against government inaction on climate change, as part of global demonstrations in the âFridays for Futureâ movement, in Delhi on 20 September 2019. K Asif / India Today Group / Getty Images
On 19 January, Nityanand Jayaraman, a Chennai-based writer and researcher, announced a week-long call to action against the Adani Group by over 25 environmental youth organisations across the world, on a website called Adani Watch. Jayaramanâs post was titled, âYouth Action to Stop Adani â 27 January to 2 February,�
The Bombay High Court in Goa on Wednesday granted transit bail to environmental activist Subham Kar Chaudhuri, who in his bail petition has claimed that he is being falsely implicated in the Greta Thunberg toolkit case, in which Bengaluru-based .
Young climate activists in India are shaken – but proud they have rattled the powerful
Distinct from older movements, their activism is decentralised, collaborative, fluid. But the downside is the lack of safety nets, visible in recent arrests. A young woman at a protest over Amazon wildfires in 2019. | Indranil Mukherjee/AFP
On February 14, as the Delhi Police arrested 22-year-old Disha Ravi for her alleged involvement in preparing a Google document that Greta Thunberg tweeted in support of farmer protests in India, many young climate activists like her felt alarmed, but then came to see it as a validation of their work. In a short time, they say they have achieved enough to rattle the Indian State.