After Climate Change Forced Her to Miss School, Meet the Activist Fighting Back

Aug 20, 2021 | Joe McCarthy
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Aryaana Khan would rather not spend her days thinking about how humans are destroying the environment.

But no matter where she goes, the climate crisis has followed her family. First in Bangladesh, where severe flooding from tropical storms forced her to miss weeks of school at a time. She remembers how political protests would erupt like clockwork after these disasters because communities were deprived of resources. 

At the time, she had thought this kind of environmental upheaval was normal. But then her family relocated to New York in 2010.