William Brangham:
Those changes have to be made by older generations, who, she says, hold young people’s fate in their hands.
Judy, those young people’s experiences are absolutely echoed by what we heard from young people here in Glasgow.
I met a young woman from Kenya. She’s Maasai. Her region is being hit with terrible drought and floods. And she’s worried whether she can live there when she grows up.
I talked to two university students who said, coming to COP and learning about the very real revolution that’s going on in renewable energy, how that helped blunt some of their concerns.
And then I met a chemist who brought her two young daughters to COP so that they wouldn’t be anxious about climate change. She said: I want them to see that there are people from all over the world coming together trying to address this problem.
So it is a really diverse and interesting group of young people who are watching these negotiations very closely.
For the “PBS NewsHour,” I’m William Brangham.