By Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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LONDON, Feb 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - While many young climate activists aim to cool an overheating planet and protect nature, Vladislav Kaim worries about another threat in a warming world: debt-laden economies with few jobs for his generation and workers trapped in dying industries.
“Of course we want to save our planet. It is in everyone’s enlightened self-interest,” said the 25-year-old Moldovan, one of a group of youth advisors to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on climate change and sustainability.