Following two days of star-studded conversations about climate change, closed out the Environmental Media Association Impact Summit on Wednesday with a chat about kids and the planet — and a dig at ‘s recent . Clinton joined showrunner Gloria Calderón Kellett and environmental activist Anna Jane Joyner at the Pendry West Hollywood for a panel on how climate change is affecting children’s development. The Clinton Foundation is putting a particular focus on the issue via its Too Small to Fail program, and is pushing for it to be highlighted in Hollywood projects to increase awareness.
“There’s been a lot of really, really great efforts to convince people about climate change and a lot of really dramatic information and even dramatic movies about the consequences that we are facing,” Clinton told the crowd. “And so we know that part of the message of kind of hitting people over the head and saying, ‘For heaven’s sakes, wake up, it’s going to be a disaster if you don’t do something’ is a little bit overwhelming for people, because they’re not quite sure, ‘What am I supposed to do?’ There are things that they can do and that’s where we want stories to show them. A lot of the big structural institutional changes have to happen at the global, national, state levels, but we want to empower people to have enough information to be able to do things on their own.
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