ayana elizabeth johnson, let's begin with you.an look at the globe for us -- i mean, if we took that view from space from the massive fires in the west of the united states to the massive flooding in china that we are seeing right now, that drought of the great salt lake, put this together for us. why we should care and what people are doing about it right now. >> we should care because this is the planet that we have to live on. we can't actually all leave the planet. it is interesting you open the segment by talking about the balance of coverage. we are simply not seeing very much climate coverage at all in the mainstream media. what we see is last year about 0.4% of the major news shows minutes were about climate. 0.4%. so we are not talking about what we are supposed to do and only 30% of the coverage that does exist on climate in major news outlets talks about solution so we're just not having the deep conversatio about what we do next. so katharinend i dided to put together this cadre of climate leaders to the fore to expand

. >> doctors ayana elizabeth johnson and catherine wilkinson, i have been very impressed with this.aperback version of their book, "all we can save, truth, courage and solutions for the climate crisis" comes out on july 20th. that's all the time i have today. i will see you back here tomorrow for more "american voices." but for now i hand it over to my colleague, joshua johnson. >> hey, alicia. thank you very much. >>> it is great to be with you. texas democrats are in washington to press for action on voting rights but the clock is ticking on congress to take up president biden's infrastructure bills. is there room to do both? >>> also, we are seeing unprecedented anti-government protests in cuba this week. demonstrators are facing a heavy police presence on the streets of havana. what led to these historic protests and what comes next? >>> and new covid cases and hospitalizations are on the rise in nearly every state. dr. anthony fauci shares his thoughts on these worrisome trends. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i'm joshua johnson. welcome to "the week." ♪ ♪