Vinisha Umashankar's powerful speech after Earthshot Prize Award

We're really impressed with the latest winner of the Earthshot Prize, 15 year-old Vinisha Umashankar, who gave a compelling and honest speech at COP26 today. Umashankar was awarded the prize for her creation of a a solar-powered, mobile ironing cart, and addressed the room full of politicians with a clear message from herself and her generation. "Many of my generation are angry and frustrated at leaders who've made empty promises and failed to deliver." A powerful statement made in a room where the President of India, Joe Biden, and Boris Johnson were present, the first of whom is already under fire for his nation's severely delayed Net Zero Carbon goals. It echoed the sentiment shared by Greta Thunberg outside the conference, too, urging politicians to take action diligently and quickly, as indeed, the prize winner remarked: "You are deciding whether or not we are worth fighting for; worth supporting and worth caring." Umashankar's invention evoked the ingenuity that would be necessary for climate action to be effectively taken, as a smart solution to an everyday emission problem that's a big part of Indian culture. Prince William rounded off the speech with a poignant remark about the young innovators like Vinisha: "Today, I'm asking you to create the conditions in which they can thrive, and their ideas can scale." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgKpxBKW-6o