Gabriel Klassen, who grew up on Cape Town’s Cape Flats, is one of the many young climate activists in South Africa who are reaching out to their peers and pushing for change and action.
from 2015, with fears that freshwater reservoir levels supplying Cape Town would fall below 13.5% of capacity and most of the municipal water network would be shut down.
Klassen believes education is vital if more young people are to take an interest in climate change, which has wide ranging implications for food, land and water security as well as health. “The reason I have chosen to be a part of the fight for environmental and social justice is I, as well as many in this world from marginalised and frontline communities, suffer due to the climate crisis, the inactivity by our government, and the social injustice that intersects,” he said.
“While physical action has halted amid the pandemic for obvious reasons, I can say for a fact that community mobilisation and actions have not. “Many of us are unable to mobilise because we either don’t know what is going on due to lack of environmental education in school or because our priority is elsewhere.
Klassen is hoping that representation will change at the United Nations climate conference , set for Glasgow, Scotland, in November, when countries gather to recommit to mitigating the climate crisis.
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