I’m not allowed to talk about climate change around family; as my mom warned me, “climate change is not something that people think about in Mississippi.” But I’m worried for my family’s future.

I became an activist to be part of a force to save the natural world and go 100% clean energy.

I will never give up on you, on humanity, on the future.

And I know life more fully because of you whom I live on through. 

One day ten or twenty years from now, when you look back from the future, you will be able to clearly see the entire path.

I hope that we manage to change the system really soon, while there is still time. So that you are not left with the mess, and trying to fix something that you didn’t cause. I hope we figured out a way to be kind, and caring for others who will suffer more than us. A way to let go of the greed and look at ways we can help others rather than take from them.

I promise those who walked the Earth before me and those who will walk the Earth after me that I will not stand by and let nature slip through my fingers.