Morris is a climate activist in Uganda and founder of the nonprofit Earth Volunteers.was 10 years old in 2008 when flash flooding displaced 400 people, including my family, from the Butaleja District of Eastern Uganda—a region wherealong riverbanks has exacerbated flooding already made worse by climate change.
It took me a while to figure out what was causing the flooding. But then, on a rainy day, around the time I was 16, I saw several neighbors dumping garbage, including plastic bottles, into the already-overwhelmed drainage network. The combination of trash and flooding clogged the entire system. One day, I saw a news report about a Ugandan girl standing in front of our parliament, demanding our government declare a climate emergency. Her action may not have forced Uganda to go green, but it did change the course of my life.—today she’s known around the world for her climate activism, but at that time she was just getting started. I rushed to Facebook to find her; luckily, she was on my friend list.
You people do realize floods though unfortunate are normal and healthy for the planet in many respects
You lost your home to floods. Yes climate change is true but that's why it's called 'climate change'. The climate will change just like everyone will die one day. God created the earth, you think he doesn't know that humans are foolish?
There no climate change
proud of your resilience mnyomb1
Then I am one of your supporters. Amen
Thank you mnyomb1 for sharing your story and for everything you do 💕
great milestone, mnyomb1 your voice and story is so important for this advocacy
mnyomb1 Such a powerful read. Thank you mnyomb1 for sharing your story.
Thank you magazine for airing out my voice in times like this when world leaders and policymakers are delaying to approve loss and damage finances to help global south in building resilience.
I figure you could have just moved out of a flood zone but hey, that's probably all they could afford at the time.