A Letter to Rutte | Rosalinde Leijdekker | TEDxAmsterdamWomen

What do you do if you are too young to vote? You write a letter to the prime-minister. Rosaline feels powerless about her future, her generation has to live through the decisions that are made now. What can we do to change our future and who needs to step-up? My name is Rosalinde Leijdekker and I’m a 15-year-old secondary school student. My passion is soccer, but there’s one thing that I love more than that and that’s writing. At the age of seven I already wrote short stories about unicorns and princesses. Now, I prefer to write about things that I’m interested in, like climate change. I wrote a letter to our prime-minister, Rutte, about my worries regarding climate change and all of its consequences. That letter literally changed my life. Different media platforms wanted to talk to me and conduct interviews. TED reached out to me, and I couldn’t say no. My talk is about climate change, an annoying cliché for some and a really important subject for others. Nonetheless, climate change will eventually define all of our futures. My generation doesn't have a say in our future. I can attend climate strikes, however, I cannot vote. After a strike it’s back to business as usual, so what else can I do? Exactly, write a letter to the prime-minister. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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