Young Pacific islanders are not climate change victims – they're fighting

Young Pacific islanders are not climate change victims – they're fighting

24 SEPTEMBER 2014

On Tuesday, a young woman from the Marshall Islands will stand before the leaders of the world.

Poet and performance artist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner has one thing to say at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Summit: “I want to bring my people’s message out to the world, that climate change is a threat we need to take more seriously.” Jetnil-Kijiner, 26, is one of just four people chosen to address the opening of Ban Ki-Moon’s global assembly in New York.

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Source: The Guardian

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