Crossroads alum Lydia Hansberry ’20 was featured in an NHPR article and interview on youth climate activists in New Hampshire. See the following excerpt featuring Lydia:
Lydia Hansberry is 15 and lives in Hanover. Like the Morgan sisters, she says she’s been worried about the environment for a long time. She remembers first learning about the ozone hole when she was in fifth grade.
“I kind of thought it’s like — it sounds kind of childish, but it’s not fair,” Hansberry says. “Like, how can we be so careless with our home …and how can we just destroy it in this way?”
Last year, she was on a Zoom call to hear about the launch of a new climate justice campaign in New Hampshire. A student organizer sent her a chat, asking if she wanted to join a youth program with the activist group 350 New Hampshire — a chapter of the left-leaning nonprofit started by Vermont environmentalist Bill McKibben.
Groups like 350NH are giving more young activists like Hansberry an outlet for their climate anxiety. In the future, she says she hopes to work on sustainable agriculture in impoverished countries and to push for more climate education in schools.
“It’s kind of knowing what scares you… but also knowing that there is the potential to fix it,” Hansberry says.
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