Every individual is a climate change ambassador in Bhutan but not everyone understands it

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Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen during the climate action conclave stated:
“The people who live at the threshold of the melting glaciers contribute the least to climate change but are the first to see its devastating impacts.”
“Countries like Bhutan with the smallest carbon footprint are facing the grave consequences of climate change.”
“Our glaciers, which are the world’s freshwater reserves sustaining billions of lives are fast disappearing.”
“Bhutan has 567 glacial lakes of which 17 are potentially dangerous due to global warming.”
Although many are experiencing erratic weather patterns, shrinking of lakes and streams, water shortages, food shortages, increase forest fires, frequent floods, and landslides, people have little idea that such calamities are related to climate change. 
On the other hand, Bhutan is negotiating with world leaders calling out urgent climate action to protect vulnerable communities and people. The recent snowman race which is bigger than the marathon itself is one of Bhutan’s attempts to draw attention from world leaders to combat climate change.
Similarly, the greater agenda behind the Royal Highland Festival is again climate change and its impact on the vulnerable highland communities that experienced devastating impacts of climate change in the form of GLOF (glacial lake outburst flood) in 1994.  But can we afford to wait for another disastrous impact of global warming on our fragile mountain communities and people living downstream, to wake us all up and start planning mitigation and adaptation plans?
When an eight-year-old little girl from Lunana is aware of the impacts of climate change in her pristine community, it’s a shame for most of us to be ignorant. Some climate change deniers and ignorant citizens are failing to understand that her message to the world leader is bigger than herself. 
Some think it’s the political agenda of the foreign minister to gain political mileage. If everyone had the idea of climate change and its impact on Bhutan, every other issue becomes secondary.
Hence, the need for Bhutanese citizens to understand climate change is greater, although Bhutan as a country needs to tell its story to the world. When each one of us becomes a climate activist, advocate, or ambassador, that’s when our story of climate change will gain world attention and some aid to combat it.
When the foreign minister attends COP 27 in Egypt in November this year, Lyonpo should come up with a strong visual message like some other climate-vulnerable country’s leaders have presented in earlier COP meetings, strong images to show the devastation and impacts.
To understand climate change, children from an early age must be taught. Climate change should be discussed in the learning centers often so that they grow up and become a climate-smart citizen and understand the world better to respond to climate emergency calls.