People just become so consumed with the things that are right in front of them, like the homeless people on the street that need and deserve our attention, or debt [that] is so prevalent in our society, or that people can't afford their medical bills, or that we don't have access to healthy food or clean water. We're so barraged by bad constantly. There's suffering everywhere, and there are so many things that need fixing. None of those issues actually matter if we don't have a healthy planet.

It's such an overwhelming topic, because it's so big that it becomes a subordinate issue because it feels so much bigger than all of us. Whereas I could walk down the street and buy a homeless person a meal and feel like I'm doing something. Whereas to really combat climate change, we have to go to the crux of the issue, which is industry and corporations and these people that are profiting at the cost and expense of our lives and our health. People get turned off to these larger issues because you feel so hopeless and you feel so helpless. 

We need a fundamental shift in perspective. Like we have such a tendency to constantly vilify the most vulnerable people amongst us, those people are going to be the ones that hurt first. The people that are succubuses in my opinion, are the people at the top that are so predatory and just acting with abandon. And to have all of these little peons arguing over who's getting the biggest pile of crumbs while people are making off with the whole entire cake. And it is just unfortunate to think about all of those people that the system has failed already, and we're going to continue to let it fail. It doesn't matter how much money you have. That's paper, like everybody deserves clean water. Everybody deserves healthy food. We really do need to fundamentally shift the conversation and address the problem at the origin point which is industry.

I'm Kayleigh. I'm 33. I am a diehard Eastside LA girl.