T It is important to participate in the talks and to push for an ambitious, justice-oriented global agreement. We also remember that at the end of the day, no one is coming to save us. Lives are on the line, we know that millions of people are already being affected by climate change.

Successful social movements do not always look to the police or state authorities for permission take action for justice. In the 1965 Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery, protesters were forbid to march on the first day across that bridge, yet they marched anyways.

"If you don't have a strategy, you are part of someone else's strategy” -Alvin Toffler in Beautiful Trouble

Our first 24 hours here have been a blur of jet lag, cultural adjustments, crepes and chaos. As tens of thousands of people arrive to Paris just days before COP 21, I see many contradictions.

Members of Earth Guardians Bhutan had the opportunity to meet with Chief Phil Lane, an internationally recognized indigenous leader in human and community development. Youth leaders shared with the Chief how their group pays homage to Mother Earth the ways in which they are engaged in protecting her.