See people can say they care about climate change, but caring is not action.

I don’t know your name
or even if you’re alive,
but I’m doing all I can
to make sure you survive.

I’m your great- great grandmother
who lived a century ago
in a world far different
from the one you must know.

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.

And I know life more fully because of you whom I live on through. 

It seems silly to saddle yourself with guilt for something that hasn’t happened yet. I don’t want to do that. As of today, I don’t really feel guilty. I guess I just want to make sure I keep doing more, so that when you read this, and ask what I’ve done since then, I can still feel good about my efforts.

Lucie, I love you more than you could ever know and I hope that my promises help contribute to a better world for you and inspire you to take action as well as you grow into the amazing adult I know you will be.

My own curiosity and knowing what a caring, aware young woman you are help me override despair.

Remember how passionate you felt at 20, I hope you keep that passion in you and are still working on climate 30 years from now.

I am doing everything I can because I want the footprint that I leave behind to be my feet in the sand on a beach and not a carbon one.