{"id":583385,"date":"2022-03-31T18:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2022\/03\/1115232"},"modified":"2022-03-31T18:15:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:15:52","slug":"everyone-can-be-a-climate-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/31\/everyone-can-be-a-climate-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone can be a climate activist\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGo vote\u201d is the resounding message that 20-year-old climate activist Sophia Kianni wants everyone to hear, because the only way to effect real change to slow global warming, is through better public policy, she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of seven activists who make up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/climatechange\/youth-in-action\/youth-advisory-group\">the Secretary-General\u2019s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change<\/a>, the young American bemoaned the failure of the US Congress to pass \u2018Build Back Better\u2019 legislation, to tackle the climate emergency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If people want to be engaged, they need to be involved in their political processes, she told Liz Scaffidi, but she began by explaining how she took up the mantle of climate activist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2022\/03\/1115232\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGo vote\u201d is the resounding message that 20-year-old climate activist Sophia Kianni wants everyone to hear, because the only way to effect real change to slow global warming, is through better public policy, she says.\u00a0<br \/>\nOne of seven activists who make u&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583386,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583385\/revisions\/583386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}