As world leaders convened at the UN Climate Change Summit, poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner ( from the Marshall Islands) was selected to perform her piece "Dear Matafele Peinem" (written to her daughter). The poem garnered a standing ovation, and put a personal touch to environmental issues that are often bogged down by scientific jargons and numbers. The video is a collage of the people who are most effected by climate change and those that are leading the fight against climate change. She makes the important point that those being most effected by these environmental issues often come from places and countries that we do not give much thought about. -MK
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