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Topic : Identifications main idea, purpose, and detailed information from Narrative Text
Theme/topic : Personal Biography
Xiye Bastida | USA
“We are on Earth to take care of life. We are on Earth to take care of each other.”
Xiye Bastida is a teenage climate activist currently based in New York City and one of the lead organizers
of the Fridays For Future youth climate strike movement. Bastida was born in Atlacomulco, Mexico to
parents Mindahi and Geraldine, who are also environmentalists, and raised in the town of San Pedro
Tultepec in Lerma. Her father is of Otomi-Toltec descentwhile her Chilean mother has Celtic ancestry.
Bastida currently holds dual Mexican and Chilean citizenship.
Bastida and her family moved to New York City after extreme looding hit their hometown of San Pedro
Tultepec in 2015 following three years of drought. Bastida attended The Beacon School. She enrolled at
the University of Pennsylvania in 2020.
Bastida began her activism with an environmental club. The club protested at Albany and New York City
Hall and lobbied for the 175Unit 4 Indonesian Environmental Figures The Climate and Community
Leaders Protection Act (CLCPA)and the Dirty Buildings Bill. It was then she heard about Greta Thunberg
and her climate strikes. Bastida gave a speech on Indigenous Cosmology at the 9th United Nations World
Urban Forum, and was awarded the “Spirit of the UN” award in 2018.
Bastida led her high school, The Beacon School, in the first major climate strike in New York City on 15
March 2019. She and Alexandria Villaseñor officially greeted Thunberg upon her arrival from Europe
by boat in September 2019 to attend the UN Climate Summit. Xiye has been coined “America’s Greta
Thunberg” however hassaid that “calling youth activists the ‘Greta Thunberg’ of their country diminishes
Greta’s personal experience and individual struggles”.
Teen Vogue released a documentary short we rise on Bastida in December 2019. Bastida has also
collaborated with 2040 film to create a short video titled Imagine the Future exploring what future
landscapes and cityscapes could look like in the future. Bastida contributed to All We Can Save, an
anthology of women writing about climate change. She recently spoke at the Leadership Summiton
Climate hosted by the Biden Administration, delivering a speech urging world leaders to participate
more in climate activism.
1. Find the main idea of each paragraph
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2. Answer the following question
a. What is the text about?
b. Why Bastida and her family moved to New York City?
c. What did she do in 2019?
d. “We are on Earth to take care of life. We are on Earth to take care of each other.”
What does it mean?
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