Seven-time Grammy winner BillieEilish has set her sights on a greater goal: saving the planet.
“I got injured right after we made ‘Ocean Eyes’”—the song Eilish uploaded to SoundCloud in 2015 that, as anyone who’s vaguely followed her career knows, started it all—“so, music kind of replaced dancing,” she says. Years of subsequent lower body injuries, and just as many misdiagnoses, increased the alienation Eilish felt in her own skin before she discovered, through her movement coach, Kristina Cañizares, that she has a condition called hypermobility.
“I’ve spent all of my effort trying not to be in people’s faces about it,” she says, her speaking voice assertive and unwavering. “Because people don’t respond well to that. It makes the causes that you believe in look bad, because you’re, like, annoying the shit out of everybody.” But she has tried to educate people.
All of the activists are under 30—the youngest, Ryan Berberet, who led a climate strike at her high school and has been part of a campaign to pressure California governor Gavin Newsom to declare a climate emergency, is 16 and accompanied by her mother to the shoot.
As for COP15, a separate UN meeting on biodiversity held in late December, Tsui offers a slightly more optimistic take. “COP15 showed that the biodiversity crisis is inseparable from the climate crisis,” says Tsui, an advisory board member of EarthPercent, an environmental music industry charity. “We need to ensure that climate justice encompasses the natural world, on which all life depends.”
There’s only one truly famous person in the room, but Eilish insists she feels unworthy of the company she’s in. “I feel like I don’t deserve to be here,” she says at the start of filming. “I don’t know much. I’m just learning.” She’s dressed in a matching Balmain baggy tee and pants, printed with what looks like cherubs floating in a blue sky, and immediately takes a seat on the floor for the first conversation, pulling her knees to her chest.
Baird has, in her own words, “worn many hats”—actor, screenwriter, improv instructor, music teacher—and currently heads Support + Feed, a nonprofit she founded during the pandemic that provides plant-based meals to food-insecure communities. She’s also been her daughter’s biggest inspiration in the climate fight.
Mothers on the front lines of climate activism, Gatheru believes, deserve more credit, particularly those who don’t always get the same recognition as their white counterparts. “Black and brown mothers have held up so many social movements and nurtured future generations in the face of colonization, imperialism, mass death, everything—and they still push forward,” she says.
Chasinghorse has collaborated with brands like Mackage and Ugg on sustainable products, but she names the fashion industry as “one of the leading causes of the climate crisis.” She acknowledges feeling guilty about being part of it at times. “It’s very unbalancing,” she says.
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