Covering Climate Now

Covering Climate Now: Alexandria Villaseñor, Youth Climate Activist

My generation will be impacted
the most by climate change. We'll be the ones running
from the extreme weather. We'll be running from
the next disaster.

We won't have time
for school anymore. We won't have time to have
an actual life anymore. And we'll be impacted greatly,
more than any other generation.

News media can no longer be complacent when it comes to climate change. Over 150 media outlets have joined Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation to commit for one week from 9/16 – 9/23 to report on how our actions have been devastating to our planet. Alexandria Villaseñor, a teenage climate activist, shares her perspective. See CJR’s full series here: https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/