I look forward to participating in our remarkable democracy in the coming weeks; I’ll be at the Margaret Rollins Community Center as an election official and will vote early. As a judge, I look forward to helping others enter the polls at The Crossing on that first Tuesday in November, part of a long-standing American tradition.
As you prepare to vote, please well consider your values, especially those relating to civility and respect and truth, and please appreciate the most pressing challenges before us. Undoubtedly, that most defining challenge, especially for us Delawareans living in coastal communities where the sea level rises and the landscape subsides, is climate change, a challenge wholeheartedly agreed on by more than 2,000 of the world’s leading climatologists. This truth, supported by a mound of evidence collected and shared by objective and reputable scientists, is clear and incontestable; it is the best information we have. Climate change fingerprints cover Helene and Milton, the huge, horrific storms that have killed so many and devastated so much.
If we do not respond to this truth, all our other challenges (e.g. overdevelopment, overpopulation, traffic, loss of fertile farmland, clean water, immigration, prejudice, poverty, pollution) will disappear as all life will be jeopardized.
One party, with candidates such as Lisa Blunt Rochester, Matt Meyer, Kyle Evans Gay, Sarah McBride, Russ Huxtable, Jane Gruenebaum, Claire Snyder-Hall, Stell Parker Selby, Tom Brett, Gregg Lindner and Rony Baltazar-Lopez, clearly recognizes climate change and is responding, whereas the leader of other party has called it a hoax.
The choice is very clear. Please vote to honor the truth and to protect all life here in Sussex County, in Delaware and beyond; our children and theirs and all life on earth deserve nothing less.
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