UNITED NATIONS, UNITED OPPOSITION.

AuthorLangelle, Orin
PositionON THE LINE

We know we are in a climate catastrophe. The response coming from the United Nations and countries throughout the world is not adequate to address the problem. As Swedish activist Greta Thunberg says, "Change is not going to come from inside [the United Nations]. That is not leadership.... We say, 'No more blah, blah, blah.'"

Yet the U.N. climate conferences are a proper forum for one thing--protests against the status quo, as I have documented through my photographs. The increased participation by civil society groups and Indigenous peoples' organizations at the United Nations has been met by mounting...

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