As we consider leadership and who will best lead us over these next years, please do all you can to support our democracy…to vote; our country, our democracy, depend on it.
Too, in placing your vote, please well consider those who will best address the most pressing challenge before us, the challenge “that will define the contours of this century and beyond more than any other”…climate change.
If you accept science, if you embrace truth, there is only one presidential candidate to help us meet this most urgent challenge. One candidate acknowledges the understanding of climate change, the truth as we best know it, the evidence put forth by over 2,000 of the world’s leading climatologists; whereas, the other candidate believes climate change is a hoax. Unprecedented wildfires, historic storms, weird weather patterns, intensifying heat waves and droughts, rising sea levels and more already are here and will only worsen especially if we, each one of us, do not respond. Money and property costs accumulate, as do the horrific losses of life, human and otherwise.
Please do all you can to put us on a most thoughtful path. Please vote (and, yes, please become the solution by recycling especially cans and cardboard, by conserving food and energy, by planting trees, by writing legislators and letters to the editor, by walking or biking, by driving gently in a fuel-efficient car, by supporting solar and wind energy, by buying carbon offsets, by choosing investment funds with strong ESG scores, etc.). Please vote for all those candidates who value clean air and water and healthy landscapes, and who acknowledge the truth of climate change and respond. All life will benefit and a new economy will emerge and prosper, one that fairly recognizes ecosystem services, that which comes from and promotes our fertile soil and water and air. Our children and grandchildren and the natural world which sustains all of us, will celebrate our thoughtful response.
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