Imagine paying for your own death.
What if you were growing up and reading your future,
code red for your future,
code red for humanity.
Politicians saying oh well it's happening and
I guess we’ll sign a paper and it’ll all be fine.
We need the adults but they also need us.
I wasn’t really very knowledgeable about climate change until September 2018 when I
stumbled across a video of Greta Thurnberg.
So then in that same week that was my first ever school strike
Then afterwards I wanted to know more about climate change.
Seeing people like Greta and other high profile activist in the newspaper,
talking about the crisis talking about the need for action now was so inspiring.
I led a march around my home town which was particularly powerful,
lots and lots people from the community showed up.
Here in the Caribbean we didn't really have any marchers or any protests like that.
We advocated in different ways and
I saw that thousands of people marching.
You saw the signs and you saw the people yelling and really demanding what is their right.
The message has become something household that everybody talks about now.
We are literally subsidising our own extinction right now
by subsidising the fossil fuels industries.
Imagine paying for your own death.
The temperatures in so many different cities across the world were rising so much.
How many more public places were being flooded.
It's happening in real life like how so recently this year, unfortunately so many places in
Germany and France were being washed away.
There was huge urban flooding in our economic hub which is Karachi and it broke records
of eighty nine or so years because there was such heavy rainfall and the infrastructure of
the city was destroyed.
After Hurricane Maria and Irma struck, I was truly devastated.
I felt compelled to take personal action.
Many of the neighbouring islands did see destruction
and the islands that were affected were completely destroyed.
Families lost everything. Their homes, their belongings.
I was like, if I can create change why not do it now?
If I can be part of the solution, why not do it now?
Put yourself in our shoes what if you were growing up and reading that your future code
red for your future, code red for humanity.
I do understand that like you can’t instantly
pause everything that’s going on like that now.
You can’t instantly stop everything but it needs time
however we don’t have enough time to keep on going
and using so many bad things.
So many young people like myself participate
in these discussions and our voices are heard, but are they really put into action.
Are you listening to what I'm saying and putting it into your policies,
putting it into your laws.
No, you're not because the landfills are still full,
the streets are still full of plastic.
There's so much more that you can do.
A lot of the climate crisis links back to despair and eco anxiety and feelings of hopelessness.
I found people raising awareness talking about the movement really gave me hope.
It is also making me feel quite happy and optimistic the more people are listening to the younger generation as well.
When do we want it? Now.
What do we want? Climate justice.
When do we want it? Now.
What do we want? Climate justice.