{"id":15209,"date":"2021-11-03T13:51:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T20:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/?p=15209"},"modified":"2022-11-07T11:48:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:48:40","slug":"pacific-island-youth-beauty-and-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/radical-joy-revealed\/pacific-island-youth-beauty-and-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Island Youth: Beauty and Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In 1992, when twelve-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JGdS8ts63Ck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Severn Cullis-Suzuki<\/a> warned of the dangers of climate change at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the gathered leaders smiled approvingly at this articulate young woman with a moving message.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now, thirty years later, another generation of youth are showing up, online or in person, at COP-26 in Paris. They are still articulate, but by this time they are also very angry and very scared.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/350.org\/haveyoursei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth4Pacific<\/a> is a group of young people from the nations of the Pacific and the Pacific diaspora. Declaring, &#8220;We are not drowning! We are fighting!&#8221; they&#8217;re working to interweave traditional practices and philosophies with urgently needed new modes of living, rebuild financial systems, end the use of fossil fuels, and promote young leaders.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When we talk about finding and making beauty in wounded places, we must acknowledge that the entire Earth is a wounded place and will become more so as climate change wreaks its unpredictable havoc. Youth4Pacific chose as its symbol the sei, a flower known for its beauty and its resilience. The questions we must all answer now\u2014youth and adults, people of all nations and ethnicities\u2014are, &#8220;How do use beauty as a tool for our fight?&#8221; And, &#8220;Recognizing that wounded lands grow wounded people, how can we offer support and appreciation to one another?&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1992, when twelve-year-old Severn Cullis-Suzuki warned of the dangers of climate change at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the gathered leaders smiled approvingly at this articulate young woman with a moving message. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"place":[],"event-year":[404],"media-type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16546,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15209\/revisions\/16546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15209"},{"taxonomy":"place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place?post=15209"},{"taxonomy":"event-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-year?post=15209"},{"taxonomy":"media-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-type?post=15209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}