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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.

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