What Do NYC Youth Want for Earth Day? An End to Fossil Fuels.
“My house gets flooded every single year,” 16-year old Diana Ramirez told City Limits. “I live in a basement apartment in Sunset Park because that’s what we can afford, so the rising sea levels and flooding caused by climate change are affecting me heavily.”
Ramirez was one of many New York City youth who took to the streets in the lead up to Earth Day to demand people in power stop funding fossil fuels.
