Here’s The Other Young Climate Change Activists That Are Making A Difference Who Aren’t Talked About Much
Recently, Greta Thunberg has been making news and rightfully so. She’s so devoted to the fight against climate change, people, including world leaders, are really listening to her. But the battle for our planet’s brighter tomorrow is a difficult one and Greta needs company. Luckily, she has it. Of all the individuals who are on the same page as her, there are some young activists as well. Photographer, model and writer Darby Freeman tweeted out a couple of them: “Along with Greta Thunberg, three young climate activists of color you should know are Autumn Peltier, Mari Copeny, Xiye Bastida,” she wrote. “Don’t forget their names and include them in climate conversations.”
The Internet noticed. Darby’s tweet has already accumulated over 70K likes and 29K retweets. The best part, however, is that people are leaving comments with other important names in the activism game. If you ask me, that’s teamwork.
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Autumn Peltier
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Autumn Peltier (born 2004) is Anishinaabe-kwe and a member of the Wikwemikong First Nation as well as an internationally recognized advocate for clean water. Also known as the “water warrior,” Peltier addressed world leaders at the UN General Assembly on the issue of water protection at the age of thirteen in 2018.
She began her advocacy on behalf of water at the age of eight after being inspired by her great aunt, Josephine Mandamin.
Mari Copeny
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Mari Copeny (also known as ‘Little Miss Flint’) is an 11 year-old activist who fights for the children of Flint, Michigan. At only 8 years old, Mari and her siblings were told not to turn on the water in their city after news broke of a water crisis. During this difficult time, instead of feeling helpless, Mari decided to help out her community and to fight for the kids in Flint and she has not stopped since.
Xiye Bastida
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Bastida has experienced the effects of climate change firsthand. She grew up around drought and then heavy rainfall and flooding in her hometown of San Pedro Tultepec, a town outside of Mexico City. When she and her family moved to New York City four years ago, she learned about the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. Now, she has devoted herself to bringing diverse people together to stop the damage.
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There is a family in my neighborhood , once a month the pick up the trash from the street with their children. They are my unsung heroes :)
Why do those girls have to be "of color?" What importance does skin color have? Is it the message that 's important or how they look
Um, you tell us. Why are all these young activists of color not getting the media attention as their white counterpart? Maybe color DOES have 'importance'
Load More Replies...... the question is, why are we talking about certain persons at all? I find it hard thinking any of these is in it for fame at all - the message counts, not the person. No single person. But, on the other hand ... we all know, people need symbolic figurines, as truth and knowledge don't appeal to the so-called heart, but only to the understanding mind, which is not the place most decisions - including mine, of course - are made...
You do realise recycling is worthless..right now your recyclables are being buried because there is no money to be made in recycling..
Unfortunately this is actually true. I use to think I was doing my part recycling then I realized it was just being thrown away in the end. I read the fine print on my bill from our recycle company and it listed all the thing they will NOT recycle and why. It was crazy! Every single thing has to be completely clean, if anything drips out of it they will not recycle it. If it is in a plastic bag they will not recycle it because they don't want to open it and dump out the contents. What exactly are they doing then?
Load More Replies...Autumn and her Aunt Josephine went to my school once, to talk about her book, and about talking about how important the water is. My point is, I knew about Autumn before I knew about Greta.
After reading most of the comments here I feel like the kind of people the media decide to shine the spotlight on mostly are the kind of people we the public ourselves argue against the most. It's always going to be this confusing because the public’s views are so different and so picky at the same time. ”Why are they all white European” ”Wheres the diversity in that?” ”Theyre all male!” ”We need more female represenatatives”the media aren't ever going to be able to include all of society's wants and needs. ”
Greta Thunberg is just a marketing product to create fear, how many time did she clean up plastic garbage, how many trees did she planted, I have to admit, she is a great actress and deserve an Oscar for her hysteric dramatic role.
They are wasting their time its to late.this planet will heal itself when everyones dead. 9 billion ppl on this plant and most could give 2 shi_s. Its sad but the writing is on the wall.
Ok hear me out. I LOVE what this is message is trying to prove but why does it just have to bring light to the young women of color? Why separate it like that? There are people all over this world man, woman, and different races all trying to band together to fight the ever growing problem that we are killing our planet. This should be all inclusive so those who are fighting and trying to spark change in their communities, to be recognized by everyone for the great accomplishments they are working towards.
Pretty sure the non young woman of color is getting enough of the attention.
Load More Replies...Yeah, great... And you know what? Problem is what Greta really do? I mean, except screaming and crying in front of mic? I saw students on 'friday protests for clima' in our country and big part f them was there because "yaaay, we dont want to go to school!!!", and guess what, Greta actually stop going to school and learning... You know, there is children, who will 'die' for the opportunity to go on high school! But only European children trying to avoind going to school. You thing I dont care about our planet? I dont know about theese people? But theese people really did something, they really was the problem and fight for that problem. Some of them collected people and go there and helping people. Greta just crying and traveling on the boat. If I will chose to travel to US on the boat, it will cost me 5x more than a planeticket... but she's activist and have rich parents, of course she can affordit it, she dont need to pay it by her own like the others she fant to banned from flying.
I get your perspective, but, like the tweets pointed out, we should not try to discourage somebody if their only intent is to try and make the world a better place. I know that a lot of children would try to avoid school using the climate rallies, but that's because they're the supporters of the climate justice movement, not the leaders, and they don't constantly focus all of their energy on it, nor do they need to, but still try to help. Also, they're a bunch of kids, so even if kids can be mature, that does not mean they completely lose their humor and stop joking around. It's Greta's choice to leave school because she believes climate justice is more important. And isn't Greta's anger kinda righteous, because there are already people losing their homes to hurricanes and droughts, and how bad will it get in the future?
Load More Replies...At least those are not (yet) used as political pawns/puppets like Greta is. They use her passion for their own gain and justify their own agenda. Also, I'm all for ecology and saving the planet, but why does it seem that the responsibility has to fall in majority to the consumers, through their pockets, because let's be honest, being green is expensive! Why not tackle it at the source? We can only buy what's offered to us after all. Make businesses stop using crazy plastic overload packaging, make supermarket stop throwing away perfectly good food, stop using "best by" dates and be more lenient on used by dates too, push research on less polluting planes etc...there's so much that can be done at the root. The problem will get sorted faster if the politicians stop guilt tripping consumers and get heavier handed on big businesses who so far haven't done much (I might be wrong). But one can dream that politicians are going to ask the other fat cats to do their bit...
You've apparently never interacted with an autistic person before, if you think anyone could use that girl as a “p**n“.
Load More Replies...B******t. You want to save the planet? The lives of your children? You want food in 40 years, support these people and do your bit instead of fiddling while Rome burns.
Load More Replies...Tyler! We didn't miss you. Thought your therapy for compulsive trolling was going so well!
Load More Replies...There is a family in my neighborhood , once a month the pick up the trash from the street with their children. They are my unsung heroes :)
Why do those girls have to be "of color?" What importance does skin color have? Is it the message that 's important or how they look
Um, you tell us. Why are all these young activists of color not getting the media attention as their white counterpart? Maybe color DOES have 'importance'
Load More Replies...... the question is, why are we talking about certain persons at all? I find it hard thinking any of these is in it for fame at all - the message counts, not the person. No single person. But, on the other hand ... we all know, people need symbolic figurines, as truth and knowledge don't appeal to the so-called heart, but only to the understanding mind, which is not the place most decisions - including mine, of course - are made...
You do realise recycling is worthless..right now your recyclables are being buried because there is no money to be made in recycling..
Unfortunately this is actually true. I use to think I was doing my part recycling then I realized it was just being thrown away in the end. I read the fine print on my bill from our recycle company and it listed all the thing they will NOT recycle and why. It was crazy! Every single thing has to be completely clean, if anything drips out of it they will not recycle it. If it is in a plastic bag they will not recycle it because they don't want to open it and dump out the contents. What exactly are they doing then?
Load More Replies...Autumn and her Aunt Josephine went to my school once, to talk about her book, and about talking about how important the water is. My point is, I knew about Autumn before I knew about Greta.
After reading most of the comments here I feel like the kind of people the media decide to shine the spotlight on mostly are the kind of people we the public ourselves argue against the most. It's always going to be this confusing because the public’s views are so different and so picky at the same time. ”Why are they all white European” ”Wheres the diversity in that?” ”Theyre all male!” ”We need more female represenatatives”the media aren't ever going to be able to include all of society's wants and needs. ”
Greta Thunberg is just a marketing product to create fear, how many time did she clean up plastic garbage, how many trees did she planted, I have to admit, she is a great actress and deserve an Oscar for her hysteric dramatic role.
They are wasting their time its to late.this planet will heal itself when everyones dead. 9 billion ppl on this plant and most could give 2 shi_s. Its sad but the writing is on the wall.
Ok hear me out. I LOVE what this is message is trying to prove but why does it just have to bring light to the young women of color? Why separate it like that? There are people all over this world man, woman, and different races all trying to band together to fight the ever growing problem that we are killing our planet. This should be all inclusive so those who are fighting and trying to spark change in their communities, to be recognized by everyone for the great accomplishments they are working towards.
Pretty sure the non young woman of color is getting enough of the attention.
Load More Replies...Yeah, great... And you know what? Problem is what Greta really do? I mean, except screaming and crying in front of mic? I saw students on 'friday protests for clima' in our country and big part f them was there because "yaaay, we dont want to go to school!!!", and guess what, Greta actually stop going to school and learning... You know, there is children, who will 'die' for the opportunity to go on high school! But only European children trying to avoind going to school. You thing I dont care about our planet? I dont know about theese people? But theese people really did something, they really was the problem and fight for that problem. Some of them collected people and go there and helping people. Greta just crying and traveling on the boat. If I will chose to travel to US on the boat, it will cost me 5x more than a planeticket... but she's activist and have rich parents, of course she can affordit it, she dont need to pay it by her own like the others she fant to banned from flying.
I get your perspective, but, like the tweets pointed out, we should not try to discourage somebody if their only intent is to try and make the world a better place. I know that a lot of children would try to avoid school using the climate rallies, but that's because they're the supporters of the climate justice movement, not the leaders, and they don't constantly focus all of their energy on it, nor do they need to, but still try to help. Also, they're a bunch of kids, so even if kids can be mature, that does not mean they completely lose their humor and stop joking around. It's Greta's choice to leave school because she believes climate justice is more important. And isn't Greta's anger kinda righteous, because there are already people losing their homes to hurricanes and droughts, and how bad will it get in the future?
Load More Replies...At least those are not (yet) used as political pawns/puppets like Greta is. They use her passion for their own gain and justify their own agenda. Also, I'm all for ecology and saving the planet, but why does it seem that the responsibility has to fall in majority to the consumers, through their pockets, because let's be honest, being green is expensive! Why not tackle it at the source? We can only buy what's offered to us after all. Make businesses stop using crazy plastic overload packaging, make supermarket stop throwing away perfectly good food, stop using "best by" dates and be more lenient on used by dates too, push research on less polluting planes etc...there's so much that can be done at the root. The problem will get sorted faster if the politicians stop guilt tripping consumers and get heavier handed on big businesses who so far haven't done much (I might be wrong). But one can dream that politicians are going to ask the other fat cats to do their bit...
You've apparently never interacted with an autistic person before, if you think anyone could use that girl as a “p**n“.
Load More Replies...B******t. You want to save the planet? The lives of your children? You want food in 40 years, support these people and do your bit instead of fiddling while Rome burns.
Load More Replies...Tyler! We didn't miss you. Thought your therapy for compulsive trolling was going so well!
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