Climate change is always spoken about in terms of the future; most will not feel its effects for decades to come. For that reason the majority of the world lacks a sense of urgency in its efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change. We are currently losing landlocked ice due to the warming of the Polar Regions and the subsequent sea level rise is already being observed in low-lying countries such as Bangladesh. The article Borrowed Time on Disappearing Land by Gardiner Harris of the New York Times [1] outlines the struggle of Jahanara Khatun, an impoverished farmer who lives in the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh. The land here sits only a few feet above sea level if at all, and the people living there are already witnessing the encroaching tides. To make matters worse large parts of the country are actually subsiding even lower as they pump the aquifers to supply their drinking water. The citizens such as Ms. Khatun struggle to survive on a daily basis in a place where the soil is being sewn with salt by the rising sea, living in mud and bamboo huts in a place known to experience cylcones that are predicted to become more intense as global warming continues. They are exceptionally vulnerable to the effects of climate change and yet Bangladesh as a nation is responsible for only .3% of the worlds increase in greenhouse gases.¹ This is a typical case of environmental injustice that recurs around the world as a result of anthropogenic climate change: those who have contributed the least will suffer its impacts most. We often forget that many people on the world struggle to survive every day, but let this serve as a reminder that those are the people most in need of rapid action on climate change, and we as a nation have a great moral responsibility to catalyze that action.