It’s never too late to make a difference. Our actions have very real consequences. We can educate ourselves, learn from our mistakes, and take action. We can hold companies like big oil and big plastic accountable for their negative impacts on the environment. We can educate ourselves and others about what causes climate change and what actions we as individuals can take to lower our carbon footprints.

I hope whatever happens, whatever I can’t imagine that you may face, that you will continue to seek light.

Starting in 2015 I committed my life to sustainability.

I think a lot about what you might be like when you grow up and about what kind of world you will live in.

There are so many more things that we can do together to help our Earth from the damage that has been done, and I am so excited to teach you.

I hope that you all can enjoy the Smokey Mountains in your lifetime too and that they look how they did back in 2017 when I saw them.

Cool, now that your jetpack is put away in your garage where you keep your flying car; how did the aliens save us from our own destruction? Did they have this hyper advance vacuum that just sucks all the greenhouse gases out of our atmosphere?

I hope that the fervor that is building continues to build and spread and that the world has made progress to minimize the effects of our past actions.

It was 2020, the year I realized that life is fragile—not just mine, but the entire planet—through immense consumption, pollution, greediness, ignorance, false bliss. This wasn’t the way I wanted to live my life, so I promise to actively make the change.