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How youth gave climate the urgency it needed | Xiye Bastida
How youth gave climate the urgency it needed | Xiye Bastida
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45 minutes
Released:
May 13, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Before the pandemic struck, young people everywhere abandoned their classrooms and took to the streets. Xiye Bastida was a driving force among these youth climate activists in the U.S. Xiye grew up in Mexico, moved to New York at 13 and started organizing school walk-outs to demand a future unruined by climate change. That movement led to one of the biggest global marches the world has ever seen. In this conversation, Chris and Xiye explore how a group of young people shifted the cultural zeitgeist for a problem that is often seen as too vast, and too entrenched, to overcome.
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Released:
May 13, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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