Sunrise Movement's Varshini Prakash on not losing hope on climate change: "I'm still here fighting"

Then, in October 2020, several Sunrise Movement activists staged a hunger strike to protest against Senator Manchin’s stranglehold on the Build Back Better bill. It was probably following the 2018 Pelosi action that Sunrise Movement did and representative Ocasio-Cortez participated in. We set out in 2017 to build a youth political force that could make climate change matter in our politics. In the climate movement, people can lose themselves in the gloom and doom or pretend everything is OK and not process the grief. You talk about the numbness you felt reading the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report from the climate change summit, and I share your terrifying fears that we are not doing enough to create a better, safer, more sustainable planet.