Can I Live?

Young people and Climate Justice

As part of a commitment to creating a more just and sustainable world and creating spaces for young people to connect over and talk about issues impacting their lives, this event will hold space to come together to discuss climate change, climate action and justice - our experiences, hopes and dreams for our futures.

Can I Live? film

“Why don’t we talk about it?”

An urgent question and an invitation offered by Can I Live?: a vital new digital performance about the climate catastrophe conceived, written and performed by Fehinti Balogun who shares his personal journey into the biggest challenge of our times. Weaving his story with spoken word, rap, theatre, animation and the scientific facts, Fehinti charts a course through the fundamental issues underpinning the emergency, identifying the intimate relationship between the environmental crisis & the global struggle for social justice, and sharing how, as a young Black British man, he has found his place in the climate movement.

In the face of a sense of helplessness about the climate catastrophe, Can I Live? is an outstretched hand, inviting audiences to recognise they are not alone – and that through understanding the issues and connecting with the many powerful activists around the globe driving change, we can find a sense of hope for the future.

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What is Environmental Justice?

‘Environmental Justice’ acknowledges the interconnected forms of extraction and oppression that result in the impacts of the climate emergency impacting people differentlty. Environmental Justice recognises that everyone – regardless of where you live, race, gender, sexual identity, economic status, or ability – has the right to the same environmental protections and benefits, as well as meaningful involvement in the policies and action that shape their communities. However this has rarely been a reality for many marginalised communities, who are also at the greatest risk of being impacted by the environmental emergency we’re facing, whilst at the same time having contributed to it the least. Marginalised communities voices and lived experiences have also been underrepresented in and excluded from climate and environmental action groups/movements.

Further information on Environmental Justice

• We Need To Rethink Climate Justice
• Greenpeace : Environmentalism Crosses Everything
• Ella’s law: Clean Air For All
• Greenpeace: Racism Report Summary
• RACE report