Level Five: Preserving the Planet
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President Barack Obama delivers remarks on climate change, at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., 2013. National Archives, Obama Presidential Library.
The rising Earth above the lunar horizon, as photographed by the Apollo 8 Mission, 1968. NASA.
Footage showing Earth from the International Space Station, 2021. NASA.
Death Valley Milky Way time lapse, Getty Images.
John Leong, an Obama Fellow, who is the CEO of Kupu, a Hawaii based organization that is dedicated to helping young adults gain transferrable job skills through service in conservation and sustainability, 2019. The Barack Obama Foundation.
Lioness Sitting With Young Lion On Tree At Serengeti National Park, Getty Images.
Foliage and trees in a forest in Forks, WA. Getty Images.
President Obama delivers remarks at the Opening Session of the 70th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, NY, 2015. National Archives, Obama Presidential Library.
A fireman walks by a burned forest in Maside, Spain, 2010. Miguel Riopa/AFP via Getty Images.
Anchalee Koyama holds her daughter while waiting for food relief in the floodwaters in the Taweewattana district of Bangkok, 2011. Gideon Mendel/In Pictures/Getty Images.
Boys in Beijing, China look at a smartphone in front of their house next to a coal fired power plant, 2015. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry signs the Paris Agreement For Climate Change while holding his granddaughter Isabelle Dobbs Higginson at the United Nations, New York City, NY, 2016. UN/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.
Representatives to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change celebrate, 2015. PARIS / COP 21 AGREEMENT © United Nations, 2015
Children from the remote Turkana tribe in Northern Kenya dig a hole in a river bed to retrieve water. 2009. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images.
Gaye Jaco hugs her stepdaughter Jennifer Leaver upon returning to their burned down home on the east side of Lake Bastop,TX, 2011. Erich Schlegel/Getty Images.
A dead sea turtle lies next to a rolling tide of crude oil, released following the sinking of the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, along the shore of East Grand Terre Island, LA, 2010. Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images.
Aerial view of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, HI, 2023. PMDP Hawaii/Andrew Sullivan-Haskins.
President Barack Obama speaks at Yosemite National Park, CA, 2016. National Archives, Obama Presidential Library.
A view of the High Line Park in New York City, NY, 2014. Alexandra Schuler/picture alliance via Getty Images.
Voice of environmental activist Bill McKibben: "There will be and already have been extraordinary losses due to climate change but I also know there's going to be a fight." Oral history interview with Bill McKibben 2021, by Dov Weinryb Grohsgal, Obama Presidency Oral History, Incite @ Columbia University, Columbia University in the City of New York.
A man on a rooftop looks at approaching flames as the Springs fire continues to grow near Camarillo, CA, 2013. David McNew/Getty Images.
Brothers Steven White, farmer, and Bill White, cattle rancher, stand on their land that is too salty for farming and too salty to grow grass needed for cattle, Stowell, TX, 2009. Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images.
The Minister of Public Works, Transportation & Housing of Honduras, Miguel Rodrigo Pastor looks at the damages caused by a landslide on the Pan-American highway near La Moramulca, south of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 2011. ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images.
People protest for greater action against climate change during the People's Climate March, New York City, NY, 2014. Andrew Burton/Getty Images.
"Forward On Climate" rally, Washington, D.C., 2013. Leigh Vogel/Getty Images.
President Barack Obama designates the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as part of the California Coastal National Monument in a signing ceremony in the Oval Office, 2014. National Archives, Obama Presidential Library.
Hundreds of climate activists march north along 14th Avenue NW to the White House to voice their favor for the Green New Deal, Washington, D.C., 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
Voice of Melanie Bahnke, Alaska Native and Arctic Issues Advocate: "There's a whole generation coming behind me. I feel like where my generation was taught to politely knock on doors, they're kicking in doors." Oral history interview with Melanie Bahnke 2022, by Charlotte Wang, Obama Presidency Oral History, Incite @ Columbia University, Columbia University in the City of New York.
Yellow flags reading "Don't Nuke the Climate" wave in front of the Eiffel Tower at outdoor COP21 Climate Summit rally in Paris, France, 2015. NBC News/Getty Images.
Forward on Climate change rally in Los Angeles, CA, 2013. Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.
Environmental activist and youth director of Earth Guardians, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival: "Not everybody's going to be up in front of a microphone, but we all have the potential to create change." Courtesy of Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and the Aspen Ideas Festival.
Third Act members during an action for climate, 2023. © Brooke Anderson.
Farmer Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm, Petersburg, NY. © Neshima Vitale-Penniman/Soul Fire Farm.
Policemen collect trash at Bulabog beach in the holiday island of Boracay, Philippines, 2018. REUTERS/Erik De Castro.
President Barack Obama speaks at the 20th anniversary of the Lake Tahoe Summit, 2016. National Archives, Obama Presidential Library.
Climate activists protest outside Senator Chuck Schumer's office building in New York City, NY, 2019. Tomas Abad/Getty Images.
SolarCraft workers Craig Powell and Edwin Neal install solar panels on the roof of a home in San Rafael, CA, 2015. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.
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