{"id":55953,"date":"2021-11-30T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/?p=55953"},"modified":"2021-12-01T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:49:42","slug":"young-women-take-on-the-mantle-of-climate-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/young-women-take-on-the-mantle-of-climate-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Women Take on the Mantle of Climate Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The next generation of climate activists include Anisa Nanavati, who now works as a student volunteer for advocacy group Action for the Climate Emergency. (Credit: Courtesy of Anisa Nanavati.) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Anisa Nanavati, 17, found her voice two years ago. In the summer of 2019, she went to a protest for reproductive rights<\/a> in Orlando, Florida — and she was taken with the energy and enthusiasm of the crowd. She felt that the climate movement<\/a> was gaining steam, and she says at that moment she knew she had to start fighting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPersonally, I just became really tired of just watching. I really just wanted to do something,\u201d Nanavati  says. \u201cSo one day I just got on my computer and I emailed hundreds and hundreds of organizations all over. I was like: I want to be a part of this movement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She became involved in climate organizing with a group called Earth Uprising, but now works as a student volunteer with an advocacy organization called Action for the Climate Emergency<\/a>. As part of her outreach efforts, Nanavati actively works to combat climate denial and shares advice on how to talk with skeptical family members<\/a> in a non-hostile way about the real facts of climate change. ACE is \u201creally focused on <\/a>education and storytelling,\u201d says Nanavati, and “really uplifting youth voices when it comes to the fight against climate change.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

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She\u2019s just one of a swelling tide of young women working to organize and promote activism around the climate crisis. In the wake of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, young activists are digging in for a fight at home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young women were present at the conference, even if they weren\u2019t seated at the negotiating tables. Greta Thunberg taunted political leaders from outside the event, telling protesters<\/a> the UN climate change summit was a “two-week long celebration of business as usual and blah, blah, blah” to “maintain business as usual” and “create loopholes to benefit themselves”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The #COP26<\/a> is over. Here\u2019s a brief summary: Blah, blah, blah.

But the real work continues outside these halls. And we will never give up, ever. https:\/\/t.co\/EOne9OogiR<\/a><\/p>— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 13, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>