World-Renowned Explorer Talks About Climate Change

Will Steger Has Spent His Life Exploring the Arctic

When you explore the Arctic for decades, you tend to learn a thing or two about the environment.

Will Steger is a world-renowned explorer who has spent his life climbing mountains, kayaking thousands of miles, and taking expeditions across the North and South poles.

And he speaks to students at Denfeld High School about his experience, with a focus on climate change.

Steger says climate change is real, and it’s time to take the environment seriously.

“It’s happening all around us,” Steger said. “And not just in the arctic areas. I was sort of on the front lines in the polar regions, when we first saw the changes.”

When discussing global warming, Steger claims to have an eyewitness account of environmental changes.

He says it’s time to stop denying that climate change is happening.

“There’s a reality here of something serious that’s happening, but we definitely have the technology and the solutions,” Steger said. “But we really have to act now; we can’t be denying this and putting it away for the next generation.”

Steger has been giving a version of this talk around the country for a few years now.

His appearance at Denfeld precedes a visit to UMD to give the same talk to the public.