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Why the Global South Is FIGHTING for Climate Justice (3:05)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOhQZlNptJY

• Countries such as Brazil, Zimbabwe, Thailand, the Philippines, South Africa and Kenya were all affected by floods, storms, drought, wildfires and locust invasions between 2019 and 2020.
• Various youth activists decided to raise their voices:
  • “I do not want to be afraid of drowning in my own bedroom.”
  • “When I fight for climate justice, I fight for my right to food, to safe water.”
  • “We are fed up with the hollow and empty promises for climate change made by the world leaders.”
  • “If we don’t raise our voices, who will do it?”