Youth Activists Around the World React to Biden s Climate Plans
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Published on 4/29/2021 at 4:29 PM
Here is what some youth climate leaders around the world are saying about the Biden administration’s climate plans on the heels of President Biden’s first congressional address.
Gaston Zilberman
“It is definitely a big step forward to move from a denialist president to one who includes the climate crisis as a central focus of his speeches. However, although his plans seem very ambitious, they continue to destroy the lands of the global south. Countries like the USA would simply not exist without the exploitation of countries from which they can take cheap resources without regulations like in Argentina, the country where I live, with fracking and mega-mining. Our eyes will be on how he translates those words into action.”