Up to last month, I’d avoided speaking to my 33-year-old daughter about climate change, foolishly thinking that she was unaware of how dire it has become. A through-hiker, she is a thirty-mile-a-day solo sojourner who loves the Oregon woods as her true home. I suffered from parental guilt at not having done more to fight climate change so she could enjoy her forested cathedral for a full measure of years. I wanted to give her hope but had none to give.
Hopelessness is not my natural state, so I sought help and found it in Awake on Earth: Facing Climate Change with Sanity and Grace by Carla Wise who describes herself as ‘an environmental writer, climate solutions advocate, and mother’. From her, I learned to live with uncertainty and to alleviate my angst by acting locally, regionally, and nationally to do what I can to help my family face whatever comes. I won’t go down without a fight!
For me and for many others that means embracing the vision of Jay Inslee who is the only candidate who places climate front and center as an organizing principle and a means of saving the planet while not sacrificing the economy but inceasing social justice.
Right now, I fight for—not against—windmills which Jay Inslee notes cause Jobs not cancer. Using the lens of climate change, I discovered an analysis by the Washington Post of candidate’s social media posts on the issues: 81% of Inslee’s posts are about climate change; Hickenlooper is second at 33%; Gabbard at 13%, and Gillibrand at 12%.
Governor Jay Inlsee is running to be our Climate Change President, bringing with him two decades of climate change activism, embrace of scientific evidence and technological innovations, and three decades of proven executive ability.
When asked why he decided to run for president, Jay Inslee is anwering a call written into his political DNA:
Ultimately, I believe there is one central, defining, existential-with-a-capital-E threat to the future of the nation: climate change. It is clear that it will only be defeated if the United States shows leadership. And that will only happen if the US president makes it a clear priority — the number one, foremost, paramount goal of the next administration.
That is the only way we will be victorious in this fight. And I believe I’m uniquely positioned, by willingness and history and vision, to be able to do that. So I do feel compelled to do it. On my last day, I want to be able to say I did everything I could on [climate change].
And on my last day, I want to be able to say to my daughter that I did everything in my power to save the planet.
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INSLEE: Climate First!
Inspired by Governor Jay Inslee who prioritizes defeating climate change first and foremost, this group embraces his positive message that the same Americans who put humankind on the moon can defeat climate change and thrive while doing it. As the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, we accept the mantle of being the last generation who can defeat it.
EARTH DAY MESSAGE FROM JAY INSLEE:
Happy Earth Day! I want every single Earth Day to feel like a celebration, a moment of thanks to the planet we have with a commitment to do more to protect it.
Politicians often use Earth Day to make empty platitudes and host one-day trash pickups. But that’s not what our earth needs -- it needs a strong president right here at home, someone who will make fighting climate change the center of their administration. That’s exactly why I’m running for president.
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