I'm Elise Hugh. You're listening to TED Talks Daily. What could be different about the way we address climate change? A lot, according to climate justice organizer, Ozawa Baneshi Albert. She says the wrong leaders are negotiating the solutions, for starters. In her talk from

TED Women, 2021, she lays out a far more ambitious vision for tackling the climate crisis,

one that starts with the communities who are most harmed and those who she says would act

most urgently.

Fasin, good afternoon.

I come from the Yuchi and Inishinaabe Nations.

My home is in Oklahoma.

I have been a community organizer for indigenous rights,

environmental justice, and climate justice for more than 30 years.

I don't believe that I'm old enough to do anything for that long, but here I am.

I'm an indigenous woman who lives in the heart of oil and gas country.

And what that means for me is that I am in a constant state of thinking about the environment and climate change.

And so I want to share a few things that I know

and have learned along the way in my word.

One is, we cannot rely on those who created the problem to fix it.

Two, we need to move with an urgency that is not happening now.

And three, we need leaders who are experiencing the harm to be the ones coming up with the solutions.

So it is clear that world leaders are looking for solutions to this climate crisis.

But they are looking for them through a lens of the economy.

And so that means they are moving with a casualness

that doesn't make it seem like there's a real emergency.

And they're also being sold then solutions

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