I feel deeply that it is my moral obligation as your Mom to protect your future and allow you to inherit a clean and healthy planet.

I will do all that I can, and hope my fellow inhabitants join my pursuit, to nurture this planet.

I can now see that the solutions are there, that a transition of the magnitude that is needed, is possible.

And, if this summer has taught me anything, I am content (because I have to be) living in this limbo, this seemingly endless waiting for the opportunity to change, when really the opportunity exists within our very selves all along.

I promise to do my part, supporting federal legislation to protect our earth while starting small with projects at home.

Please don’t wait to see the adverse effects instead adopt that river, stream, lake or ocean to make the world a better place.

I promise to raise you as a loving-nature human.

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

I promise to be successful and help save the environment.

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?