Unfortunately, our selfishness and excessive greed have closed our eyes to the well-being of the planet, and it has suffered the consequences.

I will do all that I can, and hope my fellow inhabitants join my pursuit, to nurture this planet.

It seems silly to saddle yourself with guilt for something that hasn’t happened yet. I don’t want to do that. As of today, I don’t really feel guilty. I guess I just want to make sure I keep doing more, so that when you read this, and ask what I’ve done since then, I can still feel good about my efforts.

It’s my hope that the following will be helpful as you navigate your futures.  These are the confessions of a climate activist:

Right now I want to be hopeful. Right now I want to think that we took action to ensure this beautiful future for you.

Tonight at bedtime, you asked, seemingly out of nowhere, “why are the glaciers disappearing?”

We’re presenting at conferences, writing articles, and organizing events with the goal of mobilizing our profession to act on climate, and to help them understand that it will deeply impact our mission to preserve history for future generations.

My desire is for clean air, clean water, rich soil, and healthy nutritious food for you and all children always everywhere.

We wondered about how we might be able to eliminate plastics from our day to day routines, and recycled literally everything. We were amazing, you should have seen us. Now and again though, we wondered if these were the right questions.