General Article The children of the revolution

Topic Selected: Climate Change Book Volume: 426

One generation of world leaders has failed to halt climate change. The next generation intend to change all that.

By Suna Erdem

One of the unexpected delights of the Cop27 climate conference was the Indian activist Licypriya Kangujam’s dogged questioning of Britain’s climate minister, Zac Goldsmith, about the UK’s jailed climate protesters. She chased him along corridors and through the doors that his entourage were trying to close in her face. Afterwards, she said, importantly: ‘We need to h...

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