Why climate change is a threat to human rights - Mary Robinson
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Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended — and their human rights threatened — by killer storms, starvation and the loss of their own lands. Mary Robinson asks us to join the movement for worldwide climate justice.
Reflect on the speaker's journey from growing up in a family setting to becoming a national leader. How do you think her early life experiences influenced her presidency and her approach to human rights?
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