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"Our disabled ways of life will be key to human survival through the greatest existential threat of our time: climate change.
The UK government has claimed to be a global leader on disability rights, while disabled people across the country lack basic access to elements of daily life. We can fix this – and give disabled people the true “freedom” of the cities they call home.
As a 23-year-old wheelchair user halfway through a Master’s degree at the London School of Economics, I didn’t expect to spend my past week working 16 hours a day to coordinate evacuations of people with disabilities from war-torn Ukraine.