How to get peers to join the climate fight!
There are several ways in which I would persuade my peers to join the fight against climate change. But I think the most important way is by making climate change matter to them. Too often I see people undervalue the severity of climate change and act like it does not affect them. But the reality is, it affects all of us, and with our generation specifically it will hurt us worse than any other generations have seen before. Another part of persuading people to engage with climate justice is through the decolonization of the movement. With climate change disproportionately affecting black people, the climate movement is not just about the environment, it is about racial justice as well. Furthermore, this is not only a racial and environmental movement, but one for class justice as well. Poor people disproportionately suffer at the hands of climate change more than any other social class. Yet- although they are the most affected, they are the least represented in the cl...