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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

My favorite Mr. Rogers saying goes like this.

Whenever things are scary, look for the people who are helping. There are always helpers. And what's happening on our planet right now is scary.

The climate is warming. Sea levels are rising in coastal cities like New York and Miami. The West

coast has literally been on fire for weeks.

Local species everywhere are threatened with extinction, and around the world, millions of people

have already been displaced because of climate change. But as scary and hopeless as that all seems,

we should look for the helpers. And even though traditionally marginalized people didn't create this problem, they're the ones who are helping to fix it.

Black women like Dr. Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson.

Dr. Johnson is on a mission to do something about climate change.

Outside Magazine called her the most influential marine biologist of our time.

In 2017, she helped organize the March for Science, in part because she wanted to bust the myth

that science is something that happens in a lab that doesn't really impact anyone's life.

She takes audiences through accessible conversations about climate solutions on her podcast with

Alex Bloomberg called How to Save a Planet. And this fall, she published All We Can Save,

Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, an anthology of writing from

women climate activists at the front line of climate change. Now, instead of doom and gloom, Dr. Johnson wants

everyone to feel like they have a stake in conversations around climate. How? By doing what

black women always do, through creating culture. When we spoke last fall, a profile of Dr. Johnson

had just been published in the New York Times, not in a science

section or the news section, but in the style section. Dr. Johnson uses culture to create

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