This TED Talk features craftivist Sarah Corbett, recorded live at TEDx Youth at Bath, 2016.

A few years ago, about seven years ago, I found myself hiding in a festival toilet, a music festival toilet.

And if anyone's been to a music festival, yeah, you'll know that by the third day, it's pretty nasty.

I was standing in the toilet because I couldn't even sit down because the toilet roll had ran out.

There was mud everywhere.

And it smelled pretty bad.

And I stood there thinking, what am I doing?

I don't even need the toilet. the reason I went was because I was volunteering for a large charity on climate justice and it was seven years ago

when lots of people didn't believe in climate change people were very cynical about activism and my

role with all my teammates was to get people to sign petitions

on climate justice and educate them a bit more about the issue and I cared deeply about climate

change and lots of inequality so I'd go and I'd talk to lots of people which made me nervous

and drained me of energy but I did it because I cared, but I would hide in the toilets

because I'd be exhausted. And I didn't want my teammates doubt and my commitment to the cause,

thinking that I was slacken, and we'd go and meet at the end of our shift, and we count how many

petitions had been signed. And often I'd win the amount of petitions signed, even though I had my little breaks in the toilet.

But I was always very jealous of the other activists,

because either they had the same amount of energy as they had

when they began the shift of getting people to sign petitions,

or often they had more energy,

and they'd be really excited about then going to watch the bands

in the evening and having a dance.

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