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.

More than getting through a global pandemic that has already taken hundreds of thousands of lives around the world, our true feat is even larger: to secure our long-term health and the health of the ecosystems upon which we depend for life. To do that, we have to cut our emissions in half in the next ten years, and continue to reduce it beyond that. And to succeed in that, we need to fundamentally shift the way we do EVERYTHING.

You both know I have made it my mission to get people to understand more about the state of our planet‘s climate and what was at stake.

The world is facing some serious crises right now as Viral pandemic and war situation between Ukraine and Russia.

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.

I want you to only see the beauty in this world; there is so much of it and I will protect this beauty for as long as I am here on this Earth.

I hope that by the time you’re reading this, things have changed and people have started to protect the earth

Last year most of the world’s reefs turned white at some point, but because it was underwater you and your friends didn’t see.

We wondered about how we might be able to eliminate plastics from our day to day routines, and recycled literally everything. We were amazing, you should have seen us. Now and again though, we wondered if these were the right questions.

Here in California we’re starting to recognize our climate changing the natural world around us.

I am doing this to protect you, the food, water, air and biodiversity of a country that I love.