Youth activists GretaThunberg and Autumn Peltier criticize world leaders over empty words and broken promises. We know something is terribly wrong when our children are at the forefront of a fight we stirred up long before they were born.
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| Autumn Peltier & GretaThunberg |
Autumn Peltier is a 15-year-old Anishinaabe clean-water activist from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. Peltier has been nominated three times for the International Children’s Peace Prize and continues to fight for Indigenous communities around the world. In 2019, she was also named chief water commissioner by the Anishinabek Nation, which means she speaks on behalf of 40 First Nations in Ontario.
Greta Thunberg is a 17-year-old climate activist from Stockholm. In 2018 she picketed Swedish parliament, projected her message around the world, and addressed the UN Climate Action Summit in 2019, before becoming Time Magazine’s youngest-ever Person of the Year and being named one of Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women.
