India should make climate education compulsory: Nine-year-old activist Licypriya Kangujam
Source: The Hindu, Date: , 2020
Licypriya Kangujam
was five years old when she first heard of climate change. She accompanied her
father to raise funds for the victims of the Nepal earthquake in 2015.Next
year, when she moved from her hometown in Manipur to Delhi, she was appalled by
the air quality there. Then in 2018 and 2019, when she was in Bhubaneswar, she
witnessed two cyclones -Titli and Fani - damaging her house. "All these
incidents turned me into an outspoken child, talking about the impact of
climate change," she says over e-mail from Delhi.