hour we'll revisit a conversations with great minds conversation that i had back in february with kumi naidoo the international executive director of greenpeace an economy tells the story of his extraordinary life as a human rights activist growing up in apartheid south africa and what changes we need to make starting right now to turn back the tide of global warming enjoy. fertilise conversations with great minds i'm honored to have joining kumi naidoo a human rights activist environmentalist road scholar now serves as the international executive director of greenpeace international comit welcome thank you very very happy to have you here with us to be. the first i'd like to talk about your your early life and what brought you to where you are now you were you were born and grew up in south africa under apartheid and at the age of fifteen became an activist in that country can you tell us about that what that was like and what what motivated you to at that young age to get into that. it was that national student uprising against the quality of education and i school students throughout the c

are through his conversations with great minds i'm honored to have joined me kumi naidoo a human rights activist environmentalist road scholar now serves as the international executive director of greenpeace international konya welcome thank you very much very happy to have you here with us to be. the first i'd like to talk about your your early life and what brought you to worry you are now you were you were born and grew up in south africa under apartheid and at the age of fifteen became an activist in that country can you tell us about that what that was like and what what motivated you at that young age to get into that. there was that national student uprising in the quality of education and i school students throughout the country these programs together with you know the students to be honest we didn't understand you know the politics of what you're doing for example the slogan the front of the box was that we want the public to see. this little bit because we want the cup. because because kids in white schools had color as you know was it is in fact the most popular sort of it w