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.
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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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