BBC OS Conversations: Climate change and the young
World leaders are currently meeting in Dubai for the United Nations\u2019 COP23 climate summit to discuss how to cope with a changing global climate. At the same time, a new study has suggested that air pollution from using fossil fuels is responsible for 5 million avoidable deaths around the world every year.
Host James Reynolds brings together three young people in India, Uganda and Bangladesh to hear their concerns and what it\u2019s like to live in a country struggling with air pollution.
\u201cI got up, I looked out the window, nothing. I couldn\u2019t even see my own lane. It was extremely sad,\u201d said 12 year old Myra in Delhi, India. \u201cI was getting ready to go to the school. I was going to my bus and I couldn\u2019t see anything. Almost all days smog is covering the entire city. It\u2019s suffocating.\u201d
Three women from the United States, India and the UK - all in their twenties - also share why they decided to not have children in order to help save the planet.
\u201cEvery year has become more significant,\u201d says Melissa in London, \u201cand of course making changes in my own life to help the climate like being plant-based and not having children seems to be quite a good decision in that regard as well.\u201d
A co-production between the BBC OS team and Boffin Media.