Copyright TIME
If you care about the future at all, you need to care about nature and act on that care. Use your platforms and your votes. Leverage your networks and your dollars. Where you keep your money is probably the biggest part of your personal carbon footprint, actually — even more than flying. So, divest your banking and divest your retirement savings. Call your money manager first thing in the morning and tell them you don’t want a single one of your dollars funding oil, or gas, or coal. Then, move toward a plant-based diet. Remember: We already have the solutions we need. And it’s not all or nothing. Every tenth of a degree of warming we prevent, every inch of sea level rise we avoid, every increasingly unnatural disaster we avert, every species we save, every bit of nature we protect and restore, it all matters. Addressing the climate crisis is the work of our lifetimes. So I invite you to join me: Act as if you love the future. And be tenacious on behalf of life on Earth. Thank you.
