How To Find Your Climate Voice
How To Find Your Climate Voice is now live on the Hope. Act. Thrive podcast with our special guest, Delaney Reynolds.
Why you’ll want to listen to this episode.
“There's more and more people taking action every day. There's a lot of silver linings in all of the darkness that is climate change. And that's what I like to focus on.” says Delaney Reynolds, a multi-award-winning author, explorer, advocate, and educator, who’s been called 'one of the leading voices for the environment for her generation'.
In this conversation, we’ll be talking about youth activism, sea-level rise, and climate change.
Why we were thrilled to chat with Delaney.
Delaney Reynolds is a multi-award-winning author, explorer, advocate, and educator, who’s been called 'one of the leading voices for the environment for her generation'. By age 13, Delaney had published her third in a series of children’s books about ecology in Florida.
Since then, she’s founded an NGO, The Sink or Swim Project, and its popular website www.miamisearise.com, an educational and political advocacy organization focused on a variety of environmental topics including climate change and sea-level rise. Delaney is a graduate student in Miami, Florida where she is enrolled in a dual law degree (J.D.) and Ph.D. program at the University of Miami.
Find out more on the Delaney Reynolds website, the Miami Sea Rise website, the Miami Sea Rise Instagram, the Miami Sea Rise Twitter, and the Sink Or Swim Project on Facebook.
Words from Delaney you won’t want to miss.
“Anyone, of any age - even if they don’t yet have a vote in their political system - can make an impact and can have a voice in politics. … As long as you speak out, you voice your ideas, and you get involved.”
“What’s really cool is that most of the time, kids have better and more thoughtful questions than a lot of the adults I talk to. It’s mostly about solutions, it’s mostly about how they can get involved.”
“First and foremost, we need to completely eliminate our use of fossil fuels. That’s what’s causing the whole climate change crisis. Burning fossil fuels and the emission of carbon dioxide into the air. We know for a fact - scientists agree - that is causing our planet to warm. And that, in turn, is causing glaciers to melt. And that, in turn, is causing seas to rise.”
“The way we do this is through renewable energies. Which luckily are decreasing in cost - literally every day.”
“There's more and more people taking action every day. There's a lot of silver linings in all of the darkness that is climate change. And that's what I like to focus on.”
How can you listen?
Listen to this conversation on Apple, Google, or Spotify.
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