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Vanessa Nakate Quotes

born 1996 Uganda

Vanessa Nakate (born 15 November 1996) is a Ugandan climate justice activist.

Uganda
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It’s people and stories like this we really need to listen to.

Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages’: Vanessa Nakate on her climate fight (2022)

Many people are calling it an African COP but it won’t be an African COP if the communities, the activists are not there.

Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages’: Vanessa Nakate on her climate fight (2022)

I’ve always said that climate change is more than statistics, it’s more than weather, but in Turkana I really got to understand those words.

Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages’: Vanessa Nakate on her climate fight (2022)

Communities cannot adapt to extinction, communities cannot adapt to starvation. The climate crisis is pushing so many people in places where they cannot adapt anymore.

Climate change is about the people", The United Nations Voices of Change (2022)

Having dominion over the Earth is about responsibility and service to the planet and its people, because God is not a God of waste and exploitation.

Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages’: Vanessa Nakate on her climate fight (2022)

"You cannot adapt to lost cultures. You cannot adapt to lost traditions. You cannot adapt to extinction."

Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages’: Vanessa Nakate on her climate fight (2022)

There are people who are looking for answers to a question that needs to be answered through much needed reparations and responsibility from the global north.

Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages’: Vanessa Nakate on her climate fight (2022)

Climate change is more than statistics, it's more than data points. It's more than net-zero targets. It's about the people, it's about the people who are being impacted right now.

Climate change is about the people", The United Nations Voices of Change (2022)

In the end, you know, we cannot eat coal, we cannot drink oil.

Climate change is about the people", The United Nations Voices of Change (2022)

We need to move beyond dialogues because with every dialogue there is a child dying, with every dialogue there is a family migrating looking for sources of water and looking for food, for every dialogue people continue to suffer.

Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages’: Vanessa Nakate on her climate fight (2022)

We can only better take care of the planet when we are also doing well. As we advocate and fight for climate justice, it’s really important that young people really prioritize their mental health and their own self care, to find out, what is self care to them?

Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages’: Vanessa Nakate on her climate fight (2022)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vanessa Nakate (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.