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Youth Leading
to raise the voices of the young people living on the African continent who are urging for change in climate policies. Their countries are most affected, and the industrial countries are the heaviest contributors.
If we imagine of the earth as one whole organism , we can then realize that human beings are an integral part of that organism. We often see ourselves as outside of nature and maybe even as masters. For those living in cities who purchase their food in air conditioned grocery stores where each item is carefully placed in shiny stainless steel refrigerators or neatly stacked shelves we have created an ‘other worldly’ place.
Nature is our world. It is messy, uncontrollable, beautiful and difficult to understand. We often live in constructed communities where humility about our fragile lives is difficult to keep in perspective. We forget that how each of us choses to use the resources of the earth, impacts the lives of others, significantly those in more fragile places on our globe.
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