Q: "What Should Be Done to Address Climate Change?"(ONE QUESTION)

CHRIS HILL

Senior director of the Sierra Club's "Our Wild America" Campaign

We must protect our natural spaces. From wilderness to local parks, preserving more green space and water will help us fight the climate crisis--and bring health benefits to communities, conserve vulnerable wildlife and plant species, diversify and grow local economies, and provide more people access to nature.

However, in seeking to conserve more nature, we must center and follow the voices of communities on the ground. This includes promoting Indigenous rights and supporting frontline communities who have been historically and disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. Everyone should have clean water to drink, fresh air to breathe, green spaces to recreate, and healthy communities, no matter our race, age, identity, income, or zip code.

TINA GERHARDT

Journalist and visiting professor at Princeton University's High Meadows Environmental Institute

Climate change is a lens, not a frame. It touches all other issues: food, housing, health care, education, labor, and transportation. All politics, in other words, is climate politics.

And so we must work to fight environmental injustice--a systemic problem that disproportionately impacts people of color, the poor, and women. It requires systemic change to ensure equity across the board.

Each of us can learn about environmental justice issues. If you have time to support organizations that do this type of work, get involved. If you are able to...