You are young and have a rich future ahead of you. I am retired and aiming for a high quality of cultural life and comfort with whatever time remains to me. I do not want to see a world whose elders sacrifice your future for their short-term needs and personal gain. So it’s up to you and me to speak out.

I am most sorry we could not work through our differences, and see through the greed, get organized, and do more so that you could have a better life in your 2030 future.

We need to work to save our beautiful home.

I plan to plant more things this spring, as we do every year in our garden.

If there is one thing that I taught you it is to be honest in your decisions as they pertain to yourselves and the earth in which you live.

I know I need to write this to you, and I don’t want to because it makes me so sad. I have been desperately avoiding my feelings about climate change, for many years, but especially and with greater intensity every year since you were born.

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – The Lorax

I’ll be here to tell you all the ways I have fought for the health of our home, and fought to protect all of the wide, open spaces for you to run in. When you’re old enough, we can fight together.

I promise to do my part, supporting federal legislation to protect our earth while starting small with projects at home.

I promise to do everything I can as a daughter to our great Mother Earth to protect her wildlife and trees.