Vanessa Nakate Wants Climate Justice for Africa

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'I see my task as drawing attention to communities that people may not have heard of, where lives are being upended.'

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“I thought to myself, This young boy’s life is destroyed: like that,” she told me. She couldn’t understand how or why parents were sending their children from their home villages to the cities to beg. Then she found out the answer. “I realized that in rural areas, the main activity is agricultural. People depend on nature, and with climate variability and with floods, they can’t support their family. They can’t have good crops at the end.

In Ibadan, Oladosu told me about her campaign to draw attention to another vital African ecosystem: the Lake Chad Basin, which provides water and food for 30 million people. Among those people, nearly 11 million requireVanessa Nakate: How Educating Girls Will Help Combat the Climate Crisis The three of us each faced similar difficulties. We recognized that many African voices were struggling to be heard—not only internationally but also within the continent and even within our own countries.

They were not pleased. They took turns to tell me that since I’d never been to their country or seen the rain forest, I had no comprehension of the needs of its citizens or the importance of developing the region. The people of the Congo required properly constructed houses, one of the men said, which I took to mean that the wood to build them had to come from the forest. It was a strange and unsatisfying discussion. Later, we held a strike for the Congo Basin forests in front of the pavilion.

 

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mugumenorris What Africa needs is not justice! Let’s lobby for equity.

350 Just that we African need to enlightened more about the climate crisis

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vanessa_vash I saw the drought in Amboseli firsthand in 2017. I say it all the time…it’s not a joke. climatejustice

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