Generation Climate: How the crisis made young people the adults in the room

Published Nov 05 2021 at 9:26 AM GMT

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Vanessa Nakate was 21 when deadly floods inundated vast swaths of East Africa in 2018.
She didn't consider herself a climate activist at the time, but soon after that disaster she and her younger siblings and cousins decorated placards and started climate protests in her home city of Kampala, the capital of Uganda.