Mary Robinson: Why climate change is a threat to human rights

“In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called upon to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground.” – Wangari Maathai

Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended — and their human rights threatened — by killer storms, starvation and the loss of their own lands. Mary Robinson asks us to join the movement for worldwide climate justice.