11/10/2021
! "“We won, and it was 10 times more awesome because it was the youth demanding our right to a livable future,” says Cobo, who has spoken out about environmental racism – the dumping of polluting and hazardous industries such as toxic chemical plants, fossil-fuel sites and highways in places where people of colour and indigenous communities live, work and play.
“It’s heartbreaking and infuriating how these industries and billion-dollar corporations have gotten away with poisoning us. The way the oil industry sees us is as just a little speck, but we’re humans.”
Cobo knows fossil fuel companies aren’t the only bad guys. “Our elected officials have a lot of power, but we vote them in and it’s their job to represent us. When they get into these positions of power, too many forget that. We need to work hard to humble them, remind them.”"
After forcing the closure of an oilwell that was making her family and community sick, Cobo seemed about to become a household name – but then she fell seriously ill
