Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

There are so many incredible women climate scientists.

I was studying.

So my PhD is in marine biology, obviously the ocean, a very big part of our climate system.

A third of the solutions are found in the ocean.

And that has had this generational shift where a lot of the professors are men, but a lot of the students and early career people are women.

There's been sort of like a gender inflection.

Like most science PhD world, very masculine.

And now it's much, many, many more women up and down.

young women have been leading this era of the climate movement right people are familiar with Greta Thunberg but there are so many I mean the majority of the people involved in youth climate work it's girls right like they are literally leading the way forward and shaking grown-ups and saying like

you better get on board with this this is our future and you're setting it on fire and that moral clarity that young people are bringing to this work is so critical like holding older generations accountable and saying you can't just look to us to solve this problem you created like we we actually need you to engage deeply and be a part of the solutions with us like all generations have a role to play in making this transition um

And so I think that's the first thing that young women, girls need to know is, like, you guys have already been leading on this.

So keep it up.

Obsessed.

Well, I'm not super great at that, but I'm working on it.

Yeah.

I would say I just go outside.

I mean, it's so simple.

Just remembering that you are one human, part of one species.

There are millions of species we're sharing this planet with.

How can we be a better neighbor to all the other life on this planet?