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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Simmone Shah](https://time.com/author/simmone-shah/) ## Simmone Shah Reporter  Nemonte Nenquimo speaks at the 2024 TIME Earth Awards Gala in New York City on April 24, 2024. Nemonte Nenquimo speaks at the 2024 TIME Earth Awards Gala in New York City on April 24, 2024.Roy Rochlin—Getty Images for TIME Nemonte Nenquimo believes that Mother Nature is sending us a message—we just need to listen. “She’s crying. She’s shouting. She’s screaming. She’s saying that I am when the tides are rising, the rivers are rising. There are droughts. And this is my language. This is my alarm to you.” [Nenquimo](https://time.com/6958832/earth-awards-2024-nemonte-nenquimo/), an Indigenous leader of the Waorani peoples in Ecuador and founder of the nonprofits Ceibo Alliance and Amazon Frontlines, has focused much of her activism on preserving the Amazon from deforestation and oil extraction. The warning signs of the climate crisis are a reminder of our collective responsibility to the Earth, she said in her TIME Earth Award acceptance speech on Wednesday evening, after the honor was presented to her by Peter Seligmann, CEO of nonprofit Nia Tero and chairman of Conservation International. “My people are listening so closely to Mother Earth, and they know that Mother Earth isn’t asking that much from us,” Nenquimo said. “She’s not asking to be saved. She’s asking something very simple. She’s asking that we respect her.” In 2019, Nenquimo led a lawsuit against the Ecuadorian government that resulted in the protection of 500,000 acres of the Amazonian rainforest from oil drilling and set a legal precedent for Indigenous communities across the country. She believes that meaningful action will require support from everyone—not just communities at the front line of the climate crisis. “What gives me hope is being here together with all of you, and knowing that we can fight together,” she said. “I’m not asking you all to wait for Indigenous people to lead this fight against the climate crisis. What I’m asking is for all of us to join together and battle the climate crisis together. The water, the earth, the air needs our support.” _TIME Earth Awards was presented by Galvanize Climate Solutions, Amazon, Deloitte, Delta Air Lines_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/earth-awards-2024/6960482/nemonte-nenquimo-collective-responsibility-mother-earth-award/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/earth-awards-2024/6960482/nemonte-nenquimo-collective-responsibility-mother-earth-award/"},"headline":"Nemonte Nenquimo Says We Need to Listen to Mother Earth","datePublished":"2024-04-25T03:30:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:29:59.499Z","description":"Ecuadorian Indigenous environmental activist and TIME Earth Award honoree Nemonte Nenquimo spoke about collective responsibility toward the climate crisis.","url":"https://time.com/collections/earth-awards-2024/6960482/nemonte-nenquimo-collective-responsibility-mother-earth-award/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55c261d5e0f7c18f/698a55feb3fce33bc00cd14a/Nemonte-Nenquimo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Simmone Shah","jobTitle":"Reporter","url":"https://time.com/author/simmone-shah/"}],"creator":"Simmone Shah","articleSection":"Climate","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55c261d5e0f7c18f/698a55feb3fce33bc00cd14a/Nemonte-Nenquimo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/climate/","name":"Climate"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/earth-awards-2024/6960482/nemonte-nenquimo-collective-responsibility-mother-earth-award/","name":"Nemonte Nenquimo Says We Need to Listen to Mother Earth"}}]}] ```