I want you to feel awestruck like I do. It is important to feel small sometimes, to feel the weight of reality, to recognize the scale of a challenge, to see where you fit and what you are up against. This is the case with climate change.

I am grateful for your soul, for your creativity, for your empathy. All these are precious treasures that you have to offer the world. They will help. I thank you for being in this world right now, so that you can offer these gifts at a time of transition.

Here’s the biggest secret: I KNOW it will have. We may not realize how, but we have changed the world.

I am so sorry we didn’t realize this predicament sooner.

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

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.

People are an amazing race and, if we have the will, I believe we have the ingenuity and resources to fix the harm we’ve done.

Surrounded by scientists who shared my fears and visions, I often had a hard time to accept that outside our small community climate change received marginal attention.

Each of us only has so much power and the problem is HUGE, but I worked at this every day.