 My name is Tagajap Marvin. I am 13 years old and I live on Nammaruk Atoll in the Marshall Islands. I love this land so much. The land protects our culture and beliefs. Sometimes I just think, wow, this is the very, very place my ancestors stood. But every year the waves are eating away at our land, so we have less and less ground to live on. My grandfather showed me how much of the land has been taken by the sea and where the rising waters made the trees fall down. Climate change is also making the ocean warmer, which is damaging our reef and hurting the fish that live there. So is all of the trash people keep throwing in the sea. Our ancestors drank from the coconuts and ate from the breadfruit trees and from the sea. Nature provided for them. In Nammaruk we are doing things to try and keep our land and our lagoon safe. We use traditional canoes and bikes to get around. They don't need any fuel. Now we do pro farming to protect wild oysters and we use our coconuts to make oil and handicrafts to sell because we can't rely on the sea and the land to provide for us anymore. It's hard to imagine that when people do things far away it can affect our lives here. But that is happening so we have to find different ways to provide for ourselves. I want to say to people in places where they don't see what climate change does, don't just think about yourself, think about others too. When me and my friends play here, we are happy because Nammaruk is our home. That's why we want to look after nature and we'll do everything we can to make sure our island stays above water. So we don't have to leave. I will do whatever I can to keep my island safe. But I know that the only real solution is if others around the world join in and do the right thing as well.