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Ridhima Pandey / India
In 2013 that Ridhima Pandey, one of India’s young environmental activists, saw the devastating effect of climate change in India in the form of the Kedarnath flood, the equivalent of a Himalayan tsunami. The event galvanized her resolve to do something.
Ridhima filed a petition in 2017 at India’s National Green Tribunal, which oversees environmental concerns, for not taking serious enough steps to combat climate change. It was dismissed, but she escalated it to the Indian Supreme Court. Ridhima has now started her own nonprofit group for climate advocacy. “I don’t want to suffer, because it’s our right to have cleaner water, to live in a healthy environment, to have cleaner air,” she said. “And they” – governments around the world – “are violating our rights.”
“…people often tell her she is too young to be an activist, but she doesn’t think she is wrong because other children from other countries are “asking for the same.”