Jamie Margolin is a cofounder of the youth-led climate action group Zero Hour. She is the author of Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It and a student in film at New York University. What do you see as your role in confronting the climate crisis? My role has been shifting as I've been growing up. I've been known for my whole public life as “the teenage climate activist.” That's changing, because I'm 19, and I only have a few more months of teenage years. Since I was 15, I was a nonprofit leader and community organizer, led protests and was very much involved in the grassroots, nitty-gritty work. Zero Hour is a youth climate justice organization that is mobilizing as many people as possible to push governments to take urgent climate action. We...

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