As I sit here and write to you, I’d like to share with you something more horrifying than a few boos – our current home, Earth.

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.

The blue sky will no longer be grey, and the bleak clouds will be vibrant.

I want you to continue to enjoy bright, beautiful, blue skies, gigantic shady trees, chirping birds, scampering squirrels, sparkling creeks and all that this amazing world has to offer!

I hope that you start doing things that will help the world.

Hope there will be no more droughts,
And no more pollution with which we fought,
Regarding every human should be taught,
Ensuring that we uniformly follow these thoughts.

I hope that the state of the environment becomes a part of everyday discourse.

I am often faced with the question: why do I care so much about this pale blue dot that we inhabit?

But when you are reading this years from now, by the light of a solar powered lamp, know that your dad, mom and millions of others who burned brightly with love for our kids did what we could, when we knew the stakes.

We thought that the world was an endless supply of whatever we wanted… I know it sounds hard to believe, but that is the way it was.