In a deeply moving letter to her grandmother, Xiye Bastida reflects on what led her to become a leading voice for global climate activism — from mobilizing school climate strikes to speaking at the United Nations Climate Summit alongside Greta Thunberg — and traces her resolve, resilience and profound love of the earth to the values passed down to her. “Thank you for inviting me to love the world since the moment I was born,” she says.
If you adults won’t save the world, we will
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Regarding our current Climate Emergency, just like billions of others... we are working in various ways to see that a safe and stable planet is in place for our children. Nothing more, nothing less. (We strongly believe the Green New Deal is also roughly a proposal that not only the government gives life to in the form of action on their part, but we-the-people give life to as well. It is all hands-on-deck to save a damaged planet, that is now a required necessity. It is crucial now.)