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A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis

โ€Vanessa Nakate continues to teach a most critical lesson. She reminds us that while we may all be in the same storm, we are not all in the same boat.โ€ Greta ThunbergThe climate crisis has long been envisaged by those in the Global North as a problem hurtling towards humanity from the future. In `A Bigger Picture`, Vanessa Nakate shows how this perspective has been born from the erasure of the voices and experiences of those living in the Global South, most often people of colour, where environmental disasters have already had a devastating impact on local communities. This is one of the greatest injustices of the climate crisis: that those who have contributed the least to its creation are now suffering its consequences most severely. As Vanessa puts it, `we are on the front line, but we are not on the front page.`In this exceptional book, Vanessa traces the links between the climate crisis and anti-racism, feminism, education, economics and even extremist radicalization, showing how our best hope of preventing environmental devastation is to work together and learn from each others` experiences – especially those that have until now been overlooked. As a shy girl growing up in Kampala, Vanessa began to notice that the huge climate problems the African continent was facing were being completely ignored on the global stage; problems like the destruction of the Congo rainforest, sharply rising temperatures and droughts. Witnessing this suffering caused by global warming propelled her into action and despite risks to her personal safety she became the first climate striker in Uganda at just twenty-one years old. In telling the inspiring personal story of how she found her voice, Vanessa shows readers that no matter your age, location or skin colour, you can be an effective activist.

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