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

I do believe that the collective power of everyone’s best efforts can curb the worst effects of climate change, and provide you with a more stable and secure future.

In writing to you, I realize that I don’t want you to be hard on yourself if you choose to not make this your cause. But it is mine, so I hope that you hold me accountable to some of what I wrote here.

Hope we get to have that snowball fight I always dreamed we’d have.

I asked you, the future , to help us as well, to preserve our only planet that can give us life, that can let us watch anime, go to the beach, smell flowers, run through the meadow, listen to our songs, be in a concert, and let us live.

I hope, as your father, I’ve done enough to instill within you how science is a wonderful adventure.

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

What I wish most for you girls is that the care you have shown each other would extend to the big wide world around you.

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.

As I sit here and write to you, I’d like to share with you something more horrifying than a few boos – our current home, Earth.

I’m going to commit to raising you with your eyes open. Being aware as much as we can, how to better our environment together.