Vanessa Nakate on the climate crisis, online abuse and racism in the media
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Channel 4 News
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa Nakate is a Ugandan climate activist who has quickly become a prominent and formidable voice in the climate change movement.
She recently published her book ‘A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis’.
Krishnan spoke to her about why she became a climate activist, racism and online abuse she has experienced.
Produced by : Freya Pickford
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Waste to Change the World. I'm Krishnan Girimurthy and this is |
| 0:07.3 | the podcast in which we talk to extraordinary people about the big ideas in their lives |
| 0:11.9 | and the events that have helped shape them. My guest this week is now a world famous activist. |
| 0:18.6 | Vanessa Nakate was one of the early school strikers, protesting over climate change in her |
| 0:25.1 | country of Uganda. She became more and more famous appearing in all sorts of international |
| 0:31.2 | platforms. There were controversial moments too and she was more recently at COP26 in Glasgow |
| 0:39.2 | where she was among many activists who felt very disappointed by what happened. Vanessa has now |
| 0:45.5 | written a book which tells her story, it's called The Bigger Picture. It's not just about her story, |
| 0:51.7 | it's sort of a guide to activism, to what you should do and how you can protest about the causes |
| 0:58.0 | that you care about. So Vanessa thank you very much indeed for joining us. I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:07.8 | Now you begin your book by talking about how you found your course so let's just explore that. |
| 1:12.7 | When did you start worrying about the impact of climate change? I started to worry about the |
| 1:18.3 | climate crisis in 2018. That was the year before my graduation in 2019 and it's in that |
| 1:26.4 | year that I started to read about some of the challenges that people faced in my country |
| 1:32.1 | and when I realized that climate change was one of those challenges and actually the greatest |
| 1:37.3 | trade facing the lives of so many people at that time and still continues right now, |
| 1:43.5 | I decided to read more about it because in school what we knew about climate change was being |
| 1:49.1 | the changes in weather conditions over a long period of time but we didn't have a reality about |
| 1:55.5 | it. We didn't understand how much it was impacting the lives of the people so we didn't even feel |
| 2:00.7 | the need to do something about it. So when I read about it and realized that some of these |
| 2:06.9 | impacts were already evident in my country from the floods to the droughts and the landslides, |
| 2:13.3 | I decided I had to do something about it and being inspired by Gretchenbach from Sweden to start |
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