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.

I want us to read this in future time and remember all the senses and views we witnessed.

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

Fighting for a system that rewards care for people and planet over profit.

I imagine at this point we have dropped our addiction to coal, gas, and oil and that our environment has made a turn for the better with the solar, wind, and other unimagined (at this point) alternative energy choices are in place.

Who knows what the future would look like? or what will happened in the future? No one knows right? That’s why it it’s scary because we don’t know what lies ahead. We couldn’t stop the future but we can always change it.

I will use my voice to help bring awareness about climate change.

I can now see that the solutions are there, that a transition of the magnitude that is needed, is possible.

We, in our time, still have the chance to change course. We have the knowledge and emergent means, even the profitable technologies, to do so.