Indigenous Communities Advocate for Mitzy Cortes and Her Fight for Climate Solutions
Who deserves to be in the center of climate conversations? Who is the most qualified to spearhead solutions to the climate crisis? To Mitzy Cortés, the answer is obvious. Indigenous peoples disproportionately experience climate impacts and are the only ones that have the thorough knowledge of local environments, and their protection of the land will restore the climate. Mitzy Cortés is a young environmental activist from San Sebastián Tecomaxtlahuaca and part of the indigenous Mixtec people of Mexico. As an inherent part of her culture, she was raised to love the living world around her and center her lifestyle around environmental awareness. However, while sustainability was a value she personally upheld, she realized the rest of the world became severely misaligned with protecting the en...