Last month Xiye Bastida and Jerome Foster II talked with Kate Brandt, chief sustainability officer at Google, on the keynote stage of the VERGE climate tech event in San Jose, California, apparently to multiple rounds of spontaneous audience applause.
"We come to the climate movement thinking not what we're upset about and what we're angry about, but what gives us hope for changing the world," said Bastida. "That is what I want to bring to this space. And I think all of you here have that in you. So the question now is: How do we work together so that we're proud of the legacy that we bring to our children?"
They encouraged companies to invite youth and community advocates into the work. "Have spaces in which we can inform the work that you do," said Foster, "and not just young people, but community organizations and people who can ground-truth the data."
Bastida concurred: "What we also bring as a youth movement is that diversity of perspectives,... indigenous wisdom, indigenous values of reciprocity — 'if I take I must give back'. These types of things have been missing from our global conversation and are so, so important." - Dylan Siegler
Article: Where to Find Hope You Can Change the World
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