'Planet is dying', India's 8-year-old climate crusader warns

(Reuters, 28 Sep 2020) One of the world's youngest climate activists, Licypriya Kangujam hopes to become a "space scientist" in a bid to save the earth.

When 8-year-old Indian climate change activist Licypriya Kangujam is older, she wants to launch a solo mission to the moon to research ways to save planet earth.

One of the world's youngest climate change activists, Kangujam was influenced by the images of the devastation caused by the Nepal earthquakes in 2015 that killed some 9,000 people and destroyed one million homes.

As a four-year-old, she helped her father raise funds and gather relief materials to be delivered to the millions of people displaced by the tragedy.

Now she is leading a youth movement calling for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indian lawmakers to pass a new law aimed at capping carbon emissions in the world's third largest producer of greenhouse gases.

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Reuters, 28 Sep 2020: 'Planet is dying', India's 8-year-old climate crusader warns