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If a week is a long time in politics, the past year has been an eternity for Jerome Foster. In the opening stanza of 2020, the 18-year-old was holding forlorn weekly protests outside the White House calling for action on the climate crisis. Now, he has been ushered into the seat of American power to help craft climate policy.
In a sign of the growing political clout of the youth climate movement that has blossomed around the world in recent years, Foster has been included among a group of advisers to Joe Biden who will inform the U.S. president on issues related to environmental justice, where low-income communities and people of color face the greatest fallout from climate change and pollution.
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For teen climate activist Jerome Foster II, there s no future to prepare for when you re seeing worse changes in the climate, and nothing s being done. Jerome Foster II is playing his part in saving the world. Though he just got into college, Foster already has some important reputation as a climate activist.
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The 18-year-old from Washington D.C. is the creator of the Climate Reporter which is a youth media website. He s also the youngest participant of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and the executive director of OneMillionOfUs which is a youth voting advocacy group. And still Foster doesn t actually want the job.
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