My name is Xiuhtezcatl. I’m 16 years old, and the youth director of Earth Guardians, an organization empowering young people around the world to act for climate justice. Even though I’m too young to vote, I understand that the decisions out of the White House can have a powerful impact on the kind of world we will be left with. On many of the issues I care most about, including climate change, President Obama and administrations before him have not done nearly enough. With that said, the transition into a Donald Trump presidency has been nothing short of surreal.

Trump has filled his cabinet with corporate billionaires and oil tycoons — many of whom are charged with running federal agencies they don’t believe in. The role of head of the Environmental Protection Agency has been offered to Scott Pruitt, a fossil-fuel-loving, climate-change skeptic who doesn’t believe in environmental protection. His…