BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 22, 2021
If young people are going to inherit the Earth, they want to make sure they can still live on it. Twenty-four-year-old Ania Wright of Bar Harbor has already attended three international climate summits, most recently COP26, the annual United Nations Climate Change summit where parties work toward mitigating climate change. She was disappointed by what she saw at the conference in Glasgow, Scotland. “It’s pretty discouraging, to be frank,” said Wright, a grassroots climate action organizer with Sierra Club Maine and youth representative at the Maine Climate Council. “We’ve seen a lot of big statements, but really what we need is actual political action and policy action.