{"id":11156,"date":"2024-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/?p=11156"},"modified":"2024-04-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:00:00","slug":"youth-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/th\/2024\/04\/12\/youth-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Greta Any More: Youth climate activists around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Young across the globe are leading the fight to save our planet.<\/h3>\n

Greta Thunberg has become an iconic youth climate activist with global recognition. Known for her bluntness and bravery, Thunberg captured the world’s attention when she organised school walkouts for climate change in 2018. The 21-year-old was arrested at a climate protest at the Hague on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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But Thunberg isn’t the only youth activist tackling climate change. Many young people in all corners of the globe are fighting for the environment. Below are just six working prominently for change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Irsa Hirsi<\/h1>\n

Irsa Hirsi is a 21-year-old climate and racial justice activist in the US. In 2019, while still in high school Irsa co-founded the US Youth Climate Strike, galvanising hundreds of strikes across the country from March 15th to May 3rd that year.<\/p>\n

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Originally from Minneapolis,  Hirsi currently attends Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City. She is inspired by her identity as a black Muslim woman, and uses her voice to support diversity within the climate justice movement, as well as within her daily life.<\/p>\n

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Irsa Hirsi, photo courtesy of Teva.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Xiye Bastida<\/h1>\n

Xiye Bastida is a 21-year old Mexican climate activist who hails from the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous community in the country’s central region. Bastida’s family moved to New York City in 2015. There, she became an active member of the climate movement. <\/p>\n

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Bastida attended her first United Nations climate conference in 2017, using her knowledge as an indigenous person in decision-making spaces. She won the Spirit of the UN award in 2018 and later went on to start a climate strike movement Fridays for Future NYC. Bastida enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania in 2020.<\/p>\n

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