Plastic in paradise: Goldman prize winner's fight to protect Bahamas

Kristal Ambrose had to beat prejudices about class and race to change mindsets on the islandsThe Goldman environmental prize winners 2020 - in picturesWhen the latest Goldman prize winner, Kristal Ambrose, began campaigning against plastic waste in the Bahamas, one of the first obstacles she had to overcome was prejudice about class and race."You have been around white people too long. We always use plastic bags," she recalls being told by neighbours in Eleuthera, one of the 30 islands in the ocean state. "I had to challenge the mindset that only a certain class of people get to care about this stuff. I told them it is not just for tourists. It's my island and I want to protect it." Continue reading...