While the walls fall and the world burns / Seas rise and the clock turns / The earth fighting back with hurricanes / And the earthquakes and the pouring rain
Those are the opening lyrics to “Broken,” a song by Xiuhtezcatl (pronounced shoo-TEZ-kot) Martinez. He makes music with the goal of inspiring others to do something about the planet’s climate crisis. But music isn’t the only way Xiuhtezcatl calls people to action for the environment.
He’s also the youth director of Earth Guardians, an organization focused on helping young people make a difference. He travels around the world giving speeches and is part of a lawsuit against the U.S. government claiming it hasn’t done enough to protect the planet (see "Standing Up for the Earth").
Xiuhtezcatl learned early on the value of speaking up: When he was 9, he attended a city council meeting with his friends to take a stand against
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