 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. An asshole doesn't have any mountains, you travel from one end to the other, and on the mainland it takes you 30 minutes, it's pretty small. So since it's a low land ground to Avaluim, been affecting by the sea level rise, every day we see climate change. The sea will come underneath our land and fill up our roads, sometimes our homes, every day when the sea gets high time. And during one of these cyclones, I believe it's Cyclone Pam or Cyclone Tinoid hit Avalu really bad on one of our islands. So there are like graveyards near the beach coast and the waves will come and dug all the graveyards and all the the bones of my ancestors came up and it was really frightened. We are living in the presence of climate change. It just seemed like every single year like those floods were just happening, like it was just a thing that was just normal. I mean, but now that I think about looking back and people having been more familiarized with themselves and more of the climate science and all those kinds of things now, these typos and these floods we should be like once every 100 years or not, every 10, every 5, from since 2008 we've had like for example Typhoon De Landa whose anniversary is actually today. I mean, it's the 8th anniversary of Typhoon De Landa which really over 6,000 lives in the Philippines. That was a 23,000 that we had of course last year towards the cost of these Typhoons that were in the Philippines following massive floods that was taking the country. Most of us depend on the economic value of getting fish or fishing. There's also the navigation aspect, the transportation of food from one point to another because of course it's an island you have to navigate from that place to the city. So we've been having some problems with the high levels of Lake Victoria. The water levels of Lake Victoria has been increasing, making the water levels in Lake Victoria from Uganda and Tanzania being, you know, a little bit dropping. So back in my place we've been having floods, more often floods that has led to more destruction of homes and since us we believe in having these permanent houses we've been having such, you know, some bad and tough times. I always think there are differences between developed countries and underdeveloped countries climate and fight because we are, we belong to such area that nobody knows, neither the one never speak about us. I always think we are ignored people as I mentioned before. We are ignored people. We are not in the line of those people where one is discussing, where one is addressing. I never saw any person, anyone speaking about us. This made me think about this. Then I thought whatever I need to go in front of the world, I need to achieve international platform to address that. We are already such people. I was able to stumble upon this picture or this like graph, like it was about the Philippines of the capital city and then it was saying which parts of the capital city would be under water by 2050 within my lifetime of course. And then I was looking at it and I realized the medical school where I was studying was going to be under water. It made me think, what am I going to do? Why would I be studying to become a doctor in the hospitals I was going to work in would be under water. So that really just made me think for a while and then after a few months of really thinking about it I decided to use the drop medical school and do this full time because I realized like I always thought about this because like what's the point of giving people if you're just going to send them back to the conditions that will end up killing them right? I mean if you're going to treat people for the heat wave or for flood related diseases and then you're just going to send them back to a world where that's just going to keep happening. And that's the thing about things like the climate crisis. It's not just about the lives lost immediately when it comes to the floods. It's not just about the lives lost or the lives directly impacted by the drought. It's also about how things like nutrition, things like diseases, things like all these kinds of health related problems at all. So much more impacted downstream by the climate impact. That's what we also need to realize that it's again not just about our military missions or these extreme weather events but the slow ones and social impacts of like the crisis and that's what we also need to know about that. The time of warning for Tuvalu is over I believe and I want for us to act now I want I'm glad that I came I'm the only activist from to youth activists from Tuvalu that was able to come my country it's on lockdown and it's really hard for me to to get here it takes me three days so I'm still a little bit of jet lag and I came here to try to give the message and support my brothers and sisters to because together we can as young people together we can raise up our voices so that the leaders out there can hear our message. I didn't come here to show you that how peachy we are but I came here for us to work together as because this is our world and as youth the future we will be leading the future and I don't want my culture to be to disappear I want to stay in my country to sustain my language my culture and everything. Climate crisis that is caused by this capitalist system of overexploitation overextraction for the environment has destroyed destroyed lives and dreams of youth and it's it's clear with everyone with the smoke that it is destroyed it is changing people's lives and again they know in the dreams that when we were promised essentially a future of a world where we can live and breathe and have do what we want but it's not happening because of all of this mess and that's just something we always have to consider that when particular over as youth like we have been wrong of a life and that's just something that we have to take back and it's a shame we have to fight it's it's a tragedy we have to fight just to be able to enjoy life you know in the next few decades have a reasonable like you know yeah this this be alive but that's what we're doing here right now we're taking it back from the people who still live.