Jane Goodall is best known to the world as the foremost expert on chimpanzees. She began her study of chimpanzees in 1960, when she was 23-years-old. She spent the next 55 years studying wild chimpanzees social and family interactions. At the age of 78, she retired from her work as a primatologist and an anthropologist.

Her new venture in life has become being an activist for climate change. Her mother taught her that the best way to change the minds of individuals is to tell stories. Goodall now travels across the globe telling stories of what she has seen of the destruction caused by climate change. She maintains that the only way to stop this devastation is for everyone to get involved. Goodall said in the interview, “My job now is to try and help people understand every one of us mak…