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For people who worry about our changing climate — and wonder if anyone else does.

Maybe this is you. You’re a nurse, a family doctor, a pastor, a teacher, a small-business owner. You’re not an activist, and you’d never call yourself a “climate person.” But somewhere in the back of your mind, you worry about the heat that’s harder on your patients, the storms that keep breaking records, the world your grandchildren will inherit. And most of the time, you don’t say anything. It feels too political, too complex, too likely to start an argument at the dinner table. So you keep it to yourself. Almost everyone around you is doing the same thing.

As leaders in your community, people look to you for cues on what to think, say, and do. Every day, what you do and say matters to the breadth of people surrounding you. 

As the world rightly moves to renewable energy, we face a critical task: we must move away from fossil fuels — which are responsible for millions of premature deaths and extensive environmental damage — while ensuring that our solutions do not further harm people or the planet.

As the Los Angeles fires continue to rage, we’re receiving devastating reports from our partners, ambassadors, board members, and loved ones; stories of unimaginable loss and trauma in desperate need of human kindness. 

How could progressives and the mainstream media be so far off in their estimation of the 2024 election results? We have almost as many analyses flying at us from all directions as we had funding request texts before the election. One thing is clear...

For those of us who care about climate change and the myriad of issues affecting the most vulnerable among us, the election results were devastating. We’ve just gotten America on the path to solutions and now the hope and prospects to keep America and the world safe, thriving and healthy will be trampled on.