{"id":5242,"date":"2019-09-11T10:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T07:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","slug":"change-climate-change-and-give-us-the-youth-a-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/11\/change-climate-change-and-give-us-the-youth-a-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Climate Change and Give Us, The Youth, A Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Danai Pachedu<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As a young person, I\nbelieve that all the negotiations regarding climate change should include those\nwho will be most affected by climate change. We have the biggest incentive to\nstop climate change: that is our need to have a future, to preserve the human\nrace.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The real effects of climate change will never affect elderly\npolitical leaders in a significant enough way for them to think they need to prioritize\nthe crisis. I, on the other hand, dream of going to one of the Ivy League\nuniversities in the US, I want to work as a top journalist in one of the bigger\ninternational houses, I want to buy a mansion in Manhattan and I want to have\nchildren and leave a legacy for my children and their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is us, the youth of today, who have a lot to lose because\nof climate change: we are the future human race. As I write this article, the\nlungs of the Earth are on fire. The Amazon rainforest is one of the biggest\nproducers of oxygen in the world and if we were to lose the rainforest it would\nresult in the effects of global warming becoming almost immediate. That means\nthat in less than 50 years, life as we know it will cease to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-09-10-change-climate-change-and-give-us-the-youth-a-future\/\">Continue\nreading\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Danai Pachedu As a young person, I believe that all the negotiations regarding climate change should include those who will be most affected by climate change. We have the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}