{"id":9782,"date":"2019-10-05T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/oct\/05\/greta-thunberg-developing-world-activists"},"modified":"2019-10-05T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T08:00:41","slug":"its-not-just-greta-thunberg-why-are-we-ignoring-the-developing-worlds-inspiring-activists-chika-unigwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9782","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not just Greta Thunberg: why are we ignoring the developing world\u2019s inspiring activists? | Chika Unigwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young people in the global south have been tackling the climate crisis for years. They should be celebrated too<\/p>\n<p>Ridhima Pandey was just nine years old in 2017 when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Environment\/2019\/0930\/Meet-India-s-teen-climate-advocate-Ridhima-Pandey\" title=\"\">she filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the Indian government for failing to take action against climate change. Pandey\u2019s fierce, astounding passion for the environment is not accidental. Her mother is a forestry guard and her father an environmental activist; and the whole family was displaced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/jun\/28\/india-floods-man-made-disaster\" title=\"\">Uttarakhand floods of 2013<\/a>, which claimed hundreds of lives.<\/p>\n<p>In Kenya <a href=\"https:\/\/greentreasurersfarms.wordpress.com\/my-story\/\" title=\"\">Kaluki Paul Mutuku<\/a> has been actively involved in conservation since college, where he was a member of an environmental awareness club, and has been a member of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change since 2015. Raised in rural Kenya by a single mother, Mutuku\u2019s vigorous activism, like Pandey\u2019s, was inspired by the direct challenges his family (and wider community) faced from the effects of climate change: \u201cGrowing up, I witnessed mothers cover kilometres to fetch water,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/oct\/05\/greta-thunberg-developing-world-activists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young people in the global south have been tackling the climate crisis for years. They should be celebrated tooRidhima Pandey was just nine years old in 2017 when she filed a lawsuit against the Indian government for failing to take action against clim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,326,65,820,62,299,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-greta-thunberg","category-india","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9783,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions\/9783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}