How youth gave climate the urgency it needed | Xiye Bastida

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🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Before the pandemic struck, young people everywhere abandoned their classrooms and took to the streets. Xiye Bastida was a driving force among these youth climate activists in the U.S. Xiye grew up in Mexico, moved to New York at 13 and started organizing school walk-outs to demand a future unruined by climate change. That movement led to one of the biggest global marches the world has ever seen. In this conversation, Chris and Xiye explore how a group of young people shifted the cultural zeitgeist for a problem that is often seen as too vast, and too entrenched, to overcome.

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0:00.0	A Strangement takes many forms.
0:02.5	Sometimes we sever ties with our family or friends.
0:05.7	And sometimes they sever ties with us.
0:08.3	How many years would you say it's been since you have been in a room with your three kids?
0:14.0	2008.
0:15.5	14 years?
0:16.8	Yeah.
0:17.9	I'm Anna Sale, and this is a Strangement, a new three-part series on death, sex, and money.
0:24.0	Listen wherever you get podcasts.
0:31.0	Hi, I'm Felix Overholzer-G, and I'm one of the hosts of a podcast called After Hours
0:36.1	from Ted.
0:37.5	Each week my friends and colleagues from Harvard Business School break down the latest
0:41.6	in business and culture.
0:43.3	This season we're talking about quiet, quitting, Twitter, innovation and rice farming, and why
0:49.0	recycling might be a really bad idea.
0:52.2	Stay tuned for our big end of the year at Wards and predictions for 2023.
0:57.6	Two episodes where everything is on the table.
1:01.1	Find After Hours wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:07.5	Hello there, I'm Chris Anderson.
1:15.8	Welcome to the Ted interview.
1:17.9	Today, I want to take back to a story that some of us may have forgotten.
1:24.0	The incredible youth climate movement of 2019 led by Greta Thunberg.
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