for more, we go to kampala, uganda, to speak with climate justice activist vanessa nakate, author of er picture: my fight to bring a new african voice to the climate crisis." in a twitter thread this week, vanessa lamented how little the western media covers the disproportionate impact of the climate crisis on africa. vanessa, welcome back to democracy now! tell us what the world should understand about what is happening not only in uganda, but on the african continent as we deal with this global climate emergency. >> thank you so much. it is important for the world to know the climate crisis has been affecting the lives of so many people right now. when i speak for my country, because of the rising global temperatures, we have seen changes in weather patterns that have caused events like floods and droughts. currently, over 500,000 people in the region are starving because they have no food to eat. when you go beyond uganda, we're seeing a drought that has left over 20 million people with no access to food in the horn of rica. so what i want people to understand is the climate crisis