Recently, while on our joyous Polar Express, our chef asked each of us what we wanted Santa to bring for Christmas.
A young lady seated behind me had an emphatic reply – “for climate change not to be real.” I also learned that she is inspired by the work of renowned civil rights leader and humanitarian Dolores Huerta.
The past five years, while being present at my children’s colleges, I have been overly impressed with the clear and directed knowledge our future generation has about climate change. They know it is real and it is global and they know the science.
They also know they have to act and prepare to adapt, and they have to work together to help others.
They know that climate change is perhaps the single most catastrophic issue facing their lives.
As parents, grandparents and global citizens, it is our moral obligation to support our future generations.
Climate change reality is not a partisan issue; it affects all forms of life and our security, health, environment and, yes, our economy.
It is not just ice melting far, far away, and we must respond with magnitude beyond changing our light bulbs and carpooling.
Vote for and support renewable energy, support zero-carbon initiatives and technologies, and leave energy from coal in dust.
I cannot even imagine my grandchildren asking me, “Why didn’t you do anything while there was still time to act?”
Jackie Ellis
Durango
