There Is Hope In This New Energy

"Global Warming. Everybody talks about it. We hear it in the news all the time nowadays. The Congress, major corporations, the insurance industry, and even the White House have picked up the point: the buildup of global warming pollution is heating Planet Earth."

"Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “we judge a man’s wisdom by his hope.” This is not just an opinion about hope. This is a finding about the relationship between human actions and the idea of “hope.” Why so? Today, we are experiencing the effects of a changing global climate. From melting glaciers to stronger hurricanes to the loss of habitable land and agriculture, we are recognizing that this heating of the planet is coming right at us. “Hope,” in this case, is not simply an option. As temperatures soar and the numbers of scary events increase, we see more people joining the global climate movement, more corporations recognizing the need for change, more governments taking stronger actions, more scientific reports warning of danger, and more big actions being organized everywhere. Why? Our recognition of the climate crisis creates hope, a hope in the new energy of the climate movement."

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