When autumn arrived, we realized the dark pattern in Washington D.C., when the most ambitious measures of Joe Biden were still frustrated by the Senator of Virginia del Oeste, Joe Manchin, who with his connections with the Exxon and his multimillion -dollar business of coal extraction, seemed to be the real personification of the fuel industryfossils.

Everything seemed mired at a time of great despair, if it had not been for the youth climate movement, and especially by young people like Xiye Bastida, who have been able to make clear everything that is at stake - mortally - in this crisis, carrying this messageTo the masses.

Part of the authority that Xiye Bastida has today is thanks to his life story.She grew up in San Pedro Tultepec, in the State of Mexico, until her family had to move north as a result of a series of disasters related to climate change: first were the droughts, then the lost crops, the rise in thefood prices, and later, torrential rains came without adequate drainage systems.‘Our street was a river full of water,’ says Bastida, ‘very, very, very brown water’.

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In some news reports some describe it as a ‘climatic refugee’, but this is not true, at least not technically.His parents are also environmentalist.His father, Mindahi, is a leader of the indigenous communities of the region and has worked on the preservation of wetlands.His mother, Geraldine, is an ethno-ecologist (both met at the Summit of the Earth in Rio, in 1992, in which the nations signed their first regulatory framework on climate change).When the floods occurred, they already planned to migrate to New York City and work at the Earth Ethics Center, a program founded by Karenna Gore, daughter of AL, in the Harlem Theological Union Seminar.

The family finally arrived in New York in autumn 2015 and settled in a two -room department that made the seminar available.Xiye had to share a room with his brother, Dankazi, who was 10 years old at the time.And her parents enrolled her in a public school on 130th street.It was a big change, Geraldine told me.