“Nuestro planeta: voces del cambio climático,” is a documentary from Telemundo Stations Group that seeks to explain how climate change is affecting and transforming our daily lives.The phenomenon is impacting our health, our safety and our economy, which is why several communities have already begun to adapt and explore mechanisms to protect the environment and themselves.
"It's very important to adapt to climate change and to help and promote the sustainability of sustainable production…and do my part to combat the effects of climate change," said Fabricio Prico, an agronomist at Rio Grande Valley College. After the devastation of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, part of his work focused on disaster recovery and resilience, according to his NASA bio page.
In California, there are workers like Carlos Contreras, who has spent a lifetime doing the important work of harvesting food and now, he says, has begun to see losses because the heat destroys the crops. After landmark agreements signed by former President Barack Obama, former President Donald Trump was quick to call the issue a sham and withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 Paris Agreement, a pact of 200 countries aimed at mitigating climate change.Under his administration, the U.S. rejoined the Paris Agreement and dozens of laws have been signed to allocate funds in the hundreds of millions of dollars to reduce the burning of fossil fuels.