The Outspoken Oppa Interviewed Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus

Last updated on September 17, 2020

This past week, the Outspoken Oppa Media Team and Editorial Board interviewed Peter Kalmus.

Kalmus is a data scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an Associate Project Scientist at UCLA’s Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering. Before his career, he studied at Harvard University and received a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. He is well known for acting as a lead organizer for Fridays for Future, writing his book titled Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution, co-founding an app called Earth Hero, and his passionate activism on climate breakdown.

He has been featured on multiple media outlets and received the NASA Early Career Achievement Medal for his contributions to the scientific community. To learn more about Peter Kalmus, visit his website. 

Within the interview, we discussed climate breakdown and it’s relevance in modern society. Mr. Kalmus then elaborated on the detrimental effect climate breakdown has on surrounding ecosystems and humanity. He explained the necessary steps to address climate change and what the proper political response looks like.

He then talked about Fridays for Future, an international movement of school students who leave class to protest for proper action against climate breakdown. He concluded with how students can be involved in the fight against climate change and what the future looks like if we do not do anything. The thirty-minute interview touched based on a variety of topics and will be published to inform the greatest amount of people.

The Outspoken Oppa wants to thank Mr. Kalmus for his time and effort in doing this interview. The video will be published on the Outspoken Oppa YouTube channel in a few months. 

Remember, let’s be polite; let’s be respectful, but most of all, let’s be outspoken.