‘Our islands will be submerged.’ — President of the Marshall Islands Hilda Heine is doing everything in her power to save her country from the existential threat that the climate crisis poses.
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In current events today, the president of the Marshall Islands Hilda Heine spoke at the UN climate summit about the existential threat looming over her nation as sea levels continue to rise from climate change. Global warming, also known as the climate crisis, is happening according to climate science because of carbon emissions creating greenhouse gases which are stuck in the atmosphere and are causing the Earth to warm. Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is among the many who are trying to fight climate change with the climate strike movement.

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