Kevin J Patel is a climate activist from Los Angeles.

After experiencing health issues due to poor air quality in his city,

he founded an organization named it giving young people

from underserved communities a chance to be

change makers. On this Earth day, he gives his brief but spectacular take on giving climate

activism a shot.

When I was younger, my parents told me the story of them leaving India.

Both my parents had to come to America, not only to seek better opportunities, but as climate

migrants, because generations of my family are farmers.

In India, with the extreme droughts and extreme weather,

it was not livable for farmers.

Living in a... farmers.

Living in a community like South Central Los Angeles, you get to experience and see a lot of the injustices that occur in my community.

One potent example is a lack of access to fresh

food, non-gium, organic, vegan, or even healthier produce within the grocery stores.

But what we have an abundance of is fast food restaurants.

And I really wanted to do something about it because my father taught me the ways in which to grow our own food.

And that really kind of sparked me teaching fellow peers about where their food comes from

and speaking out against the issue of food injustice.

When I was 12 years old, I was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat

that was tied to the air and smog pollution that ravaged South Central Los Angeles,

understanding that air pollution and smog pollution now we impacted myself, but impacted my entire community.

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