No Farmers, No Food: Child Climate Activist Licypriya Joins Delhi Protest

New Delhi: The farmers staging protest in New Delhi have a child supporter. Licypriya Kangujam, a nine-year-old an environmental activist, told the farmers at Singhu border that climate activists across the world are with them.

Kangujam has been posting videos and pictures of her with farmers at the Singhu border. “Hope my voice will reach all over the world. No farmers, No food. No justice, No rest,” the activist wrote on Twitter along with a video in solidarity with farmers, a report in NDTV stated.

“Met with children who are spending last 14 days in this cold freezing temperature with their parents and grandparents at farmers’ protest site in the middle of the highway at Sanghu Border,” the activist wrote on the microblogging site.

She also urged the farmers to stop stubble burning as it increases air pollution. “Our farmers are the biggest victims of climate change. Frequent floods, droughts and other extreme weather events like cyclones, typhoons, locusts, etc are destroying their crops…,” Licypriya Kangujam said.

“Thousands of farmers are dying every year. Our leaders must listen to the voice of the farmers. We want climate justice for our farmers and also should take out a permanent solution to solve the ongoing farmers’ crisis at the earliest,” she added.

She is one of the youngest climate activists globally. She addressed world leaders at the United Nations Climate Conference 2019 in Madrid, Spain asking them to take immediate climate actions.