If we could talk, I would not be able to bear your gaze as you ask: How could you, the people in a position to change the course of climate change, fail to act?

I look at my baby niece today. The newest member of our family, just 3 days old. What will be left for her and her grandchildren?

There is a place on this planet called the Amazon, and I don’t mean the online shopping site (is that still a thing in your time?).

Thank you — Thank you — without you, I would not hear butterflies singing, without you, I would not understand black bear humor, or the creativity of jays planning their breakfast, without you, I would not feel flora whispers of long-lived wisdom on the back of my neck while sitting in Padmasana.

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

Today, I promise to keep my spaces clean and my environment cleaner.

A culture of consumption is the reason that my world faces such an ecological crisis, it is both necessary and proper to address the fundamental mindsets that have created such a destructive culture.

Maybe you heard about bats? Bats, the carriers of this disease that spread among us like wild fire. I love bats. When I was your age today, sitting in the evening on the back terrace of your grandparent’s home in Ibiza, hundreds of bats would play, dance and sing among the trees.