There is no other issue more important than the preservation of the environment that sustains all of us. ​

And while there are many issues we face as a nation worthy of our attention, our inaction on global warming has created a problem too gigantic to ignore. We must act immediately or face damages that will threaten to upend the very foundations of our society.

Any political candidate who does not make this the priority shows an extraordinary recklessness and disregard toward their duty to protect our society, nation, and shared home.

The mobilization for change must involve every person. ​

We cannot rely on elected officials, corporations, nonprofits, or government bureaucracies to solve this problem alone. It requires that everyone take upon themselves the responsibility to change.

Our leaders must utilize the full productive capacity of our country to our common survival. It will not be easy. And if we wait for the worst destruction to happen before we decide to change, it will be far too late. The climate has already begun to change and we have no time left.

​The solution is simple: Stop releasing carbon into our atmosphere. Getting to that solution, however, will be one of the most difficult things we will ever do.

Every generation has its defining moments. ​

Sometimes we have stood up to the challenge and other times we have fallen far short of our potential. The short history of the United States is replete with both victory and failure.

This generation now has a choice before them. We can rise to the challenge and overcome fear, weakness, selfishness, and greed - we can work hard to preserve our people and planet - or we can be numbered among the generations who have failed. 

Let’s awaken and stand strong! Let us take the future into our own hands and work for the change we need. Let us not lose our freedom to choose in the future because we refused to act now.

Vote like our lives depend on it, because it does.

Vote for leaders who have the courage to change and who have the courage to stand up to the malignant forces that seek only for short term gain at the cost of our planet, nation, communities, and families. 

We know that if we continue on our current path of allowing emissions to rise year after year, climate change will change everything about our world. Major cities will very likely drown, ancient cultures will be swallowed up by the seas, and there is a very high chance that our children will spend a great deal of their lives fleeing and recovering from vicious storms and extreme droughts. And we don’t have to do anything to bring about this future.   All we have to do is nothing.    Just continue to do what we are doing now, whether it’s counting on a techno-fix or tending to our gardens or telling ourselves we’re unfortunately too busy to deal with it.

"All we have to do is not react as if this is a full-blown crisis. All we have to do is keep on denying how frightened we actually are. And then, bit by bit, we will have arrived at the place we most fear, the thing from which we have been averting our eyes. No additional effort required.

"There are ways of preventing this grim future, or at least making it a lot less dire. But the catch is that these also involve changing everything. For us high consumers, it involves changing how we live, how our economies function, even the stories we tell about our place on earth. The good news is that many of these changes are distinctly un-catastrophic. Many are downright exciting."

- Naomi Klein, ​This Changes Everything