September 30, 2019
Believe your eyes says climate change rangatahi
A member of indigenous youth climate change roopu Te Ara Whatu says young people are impatient at the lack of action on tackling the biggest threat to the planet.
India Logan-Riley, an archaeology student at the University of Auckland, says indigenous sovereignty is central to climate justice and climate action, and Te Ara Whatu works to make sure that happens.
She says young people have grown up hearing stories abut climate change, and they are now seeing it with their own eyes, such as her coastal community in Hawke's Bay being threatened by sea level rise and erosion.
"We've already seen wild fires in Hawke's Bay because of record-breaking droughts. Another marae I whakapapa to had to be evacuated because of wildfires. We've seen the floods in Edgecumbe. It's just going and going and going, we're starting to see a roll on effect of it happening," Ms Logan-Riley says.
Te Ara Whatu also tries to support the efforts of Pacific whanaunga to highlight the effects of climate change on their futures.
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