I promise to do my very best to educate your parents as best I can.

I’m doing this work because I see it as the best way to save and improve as many lives as possible. I’m doing it so you, 2050 Ryan, can look at yourself in the mirror. And so you can tell your kids and grandkids someday that you did everything you could.

Tonight at bedtime, you asked, seemingly out of nowhere, “why are the glaciers disappearing?”

I wish for you both that another kind of life has been discovered, one of peace, moderation and concern for all life.

I will do my part to help ensure that there is an Earth left when we are done borrowing it.

I am getting your father on board too so that we can double charge this together.

We need to rethink our consumption habits in order to reduce the impacts on the environment.

Rather than exploit it, destroy it, poison it, why don’t we just enhance the beauty of it, guard it, and love it?

I think every parent believes that their child’s future is worth protecting – because I know the power of this force in me and what I am willing to do.

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.