Eco-anxiety rap by girl, 14, wins Berkshire charity prize
The track samples Greta Thunberg's speech to the Youth4Climate conference in Milan, Italy, in 2021, in which the activist criticised progress at climate change summits.She told delegates: "There is no planet B, there is no planet blah. Blah, blah, blah."Amadiegwu's rap urges: "Do your own bit even if you can't fight/ Like buy less clothes and turn off the light."The teenager, from Dartford Grammar School for Girls, said her whole geography class had to enter the competition for their homework.She said: "I didn't want to do an essay. So when I saw that we could enter a rap or anything creative, I chose to do that."I usually do musical projects for my homework so I decided to do it here as well, but I never thought I was going to be a finalist."The competition has been run for 15 years by TSL, which operates The Living Rainforest, an ecological tourist attraction at Hampstead Norreys.
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