You cannot adapt to lost cultures. You cannot adapt to lost traditions. You cannot adapt to extinction. - Vanessa Nakate

Across the continent many activists are doing incredible work, and there were many before us and the climate strikes in 2018. When the focus is just on one person it erases other experiences and stories. The solution is not to put faces on the climate movement, it has millions of people who are doing incredible work and organizing in their communities.

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.

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.