They were asking how do you know you live with the climate crisis and I said well I can

recall the smell of mud. At the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow Scotland a few years ago

I met a young activist from Samoa named Brianna Freund.

I don't know if you've ever been like a storm or a flood, but when the flood drains back into the ocean,

it leaves piles and piles of mud, and so I've scooped mud out of my house.

More than 10,000 miles away from Samoa,

people in Uganda feel the effects of climate change in different ways.

Vanessa Nakate is a climate activist from Kampala.

So with the rising global temperatures,

it means that it's loss of people's farms,

drying of people's crops, destruction of people's houses.

The climate crisis is a health crisis, and it's hurting our patients now.

And in her work as a pediatrician, Dr. Harleen Mahwa sees the effects of climate change on her patients in Philadelphia.

Pregnant women are impacted by things like air pollution, extreme heat.

It puts the developing baby at higher risk for pre-term birth or low birth weight.

For people all over the world, climate change is not just a future threat, it is a present day

reality.

Each of the women we just heard from have attended COP, the annual UN Climate Conference,

where people from nearly every country on Earth gather to discuss solutions.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres spoke at last year's conference in Dubai.

We are miles from the goals of the Paris Agreement and minutes to midnight for the 1.5 degree limit.

But it is not too light. We can, you can prevent planetary crash and burn.

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