Meet the inspiring, hopeful women fighting for climate justice | Maeve Higgins

I'm a comedian. Working on a podcast with the ex-president of Ireland I learned how women around the world are working to save the planet - and unlearned my 'west knows best' attitudeIn March this year I started to care about the planet. Like, in a big way. Before that, I fretted about it and treated it like an extremely beautiful but very sick creature I was afraid to get too attached to. If you want to know how my change of heart started, I'll tell you the same thing I told the poor old Texas man sitting beside me on a flight out of JFK. "I'm going for a chemistry test with the first woman president of Ireland so I could potentially be her co-host for this climate justice podcast she's about to make." He stayed quiet after that.The following morning, jet-lagged and disoriented on a winding London street, I couldn't find the restaurant where I was supposed to meet Mary Robinson. When I eventually did find it, I couldn't find the door, so her first impression of me was of a tardy wild-eyed woman knocking on a window mouthing "so sorry" and "just an omelette please". Continue reading...