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Today, we’re speaking with Nyombi Morris. Could you tell us a bit about your background?

Yes. My name is Nyombi Morris. I’m a twenty-three-year-old climate justice activist from Uganda. I joined the climate change movement after witnessing the effects of tropical cyclone Idal, which had heightened impacts due to climate change, as well as other general weather changes, in the form of floods and landslides that took place, especially in 2018. Before becoming involved, I used to see activists from different countries, but I didn’t know much about it. I was following what was happening, though. In 2019, I was watching television, and I saw a girl – Vanessa Nakate – on the street outside our parliament building, striking for climate justice.

I’d heard a bit about her work, but I had to search for her online. I got in touch with her to learn more. So she talked to me about climate change, and in October 2019, I joined her climate movement. However, my background in climate change wasn’t strong, because before then, we had been living in a district in Uganda known as Masaka. It is near a wetland called Lwera. We used to get heavy rains, due to the companies that were doing sand mining – especially the Chinese, they used to come and mine sand in that wetland. This led to environmental degradation. After that, the wetland couldn’t drain anymore, and the water would come up into our houses, and most of the time, our crops were washed away by the floods. As time went on, my parents were forced to shift, because they couldn’t sustain a living. At the same time, they lost their investment in farming, because that living was no longer an option for us.

So when we moved to Kampala, we started living here with my grandmother, who agreed to host us for some time. In that process, at some point, my dad disappeared. He used to go and come back with some stuff, some food and other things, in the evenings, but one day, he went and never came back. So I struggled with studying. In 2016, when I finalized my 4 level (equivalent to US junior year of high school), my mom needed me to go, so she could support my siblings – there are three of them. So I began looking for jobs. But in 2016, luckily enough, I got a scholarship in a second university here. For two years, I worked on my course in IT and tech science. But when it came time to graduate, I couldn’t complete the degree because I couldn’t afford the completion fee. So I left with just a transcript. Today, I still have hope that one day, I will go back to school. But I don’t know when that day will be.

“I‌ ‌was‌ ‌writing‌ ‌for‌ ‌the‌ ‌Canadian‌ ‌equivalent‌ ‌of‌ ‌The‌ ‌Onion‌ ‌— it’s‌ ‌called‌ ‌the‌ ‌Beaverton‌ ‌— ‌for‌ ‌about‌ ‌seven‌ ‌years.‌ ‌And‌ ‌I‌ ‌was‌ ‌always‌ ‌trying‌ ‌to‌ ‌find‌ ‌satirical‌ ‌ways‌ ‌to‌ ‌get‌ ‌people‌ ‌to‌ ‌think‌ ‌about‌ ‌this‌ ‌issue,‌ ‌and‌ ‌various‌ ‌other‌ ‌ones,‌ ‌from‌ ‌a‌ ‌different‌ ‌perspective.‌ ‌And‌ ‌again,‌ ‌I‌ ‌was‌ ‌asking‌ ‌myself,‌ ‌‘with‌ ‌the‌ ‌skills‌ ‌that‌ ‌I‌ ‌have,‌ ‌how‌ ‌can‌ ‌I‌ ‌contribute?’‌ ‌I‌ ‌was‌ ‌pretty‌ ‌good‌ ‌at‌ ‌writing‌ ‌comedy,‌ ‌so‌ ‌I‌ ‌thought,‌ ‌let's‌ ‌just‌ ‌see‌ ‌what‌ ‌I‌ ‌can‌ ‌do‌ ‌with‌ ‌this.‌ ‌And‌ ‌that’s‌ ‌how‌ ‌I‌ ‌started‌ ‌my‌ ‌YouTube‌ ‌channel.‌”

I’m excited to be talking to you, because you’re also a writer, and I think it’s always interesting to talk with other writers. Could you tell us a little bit about your background?

Sure. I grew up in Portland, Oregon, and I’ve lived many places since then. I spent some time in Mississippi, trying to start a Planned Parenthood, and failing miserably. And I did other political organizing, around the Kerry campaign and women's reproductive rights. But climate was definitely always in there, which began in college with starting the solar panel club on campus. I was just the idea person, it was the students after me who really took it to the next level. Now, the whole campus has solar panels. Eventually I got my MFA from Hunter College in New York City. I’d always admired writers like Grace Paley and others who are writers and activists, it's just one in the same to them. But I definitely had a period of complacency during the Obama years where I didn't quite know how to hold both roles in my head. I started my novel around that time.

 After New York, after my MFA, I took about four years on the road at writing residencies and fellowships like Ucross and VCCA, this vagabond existence as I finished the book. I was living in LA by the time it came out, and I started writing for TV a few years after that. During that time, I went to the Arctic on an artist’s residency – it was this 19th century-replica sailing vessel with thirty artists and writers, ten crew, and a couple of climate scientists. I think we disembarked right when Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement. The scientists on board presented the facts to us while we were kind of at Ground Zero, watching the glaciers calve behind them as they made their presentations, and it reignited my climate activism. 

When you grow up in a country that is an oil state, as well as all the countries around it, nature gets compromised all the time. So when you go to the fields where this oil is extracted, you notice that the nature around it is completely destroyed. Our lakes are completely polluted. The indigenous people, or the people from the communities around these areas, are also affected, badly. So you see cases of cancer, or air pollution, or contamination of the water. Even the soil is affected. You may know that there are lawsuits against these companies, trying to mitigate the impacts they’ve had on natural resources. Some of those cases are getting into court, and the companies get fined. But a lot of them go unpunished. I suppose right now, with the awareness of climate change, that may change rapidly. And the companies that are there, they will need to make drastic changes, or curb their behavior, because we can’t allow them to keep destroying nature.

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