To the Editor:

Here we are now, standing at a cross-roads. Will we travel towards hope, or despair?

It's a strong, strong feeling of needing to seek out answers, needing to reach out to powers beyond for spiritual guidance.

As a Co-Leader of Living Lightly on Earth, a group advocating for an eco-friendly future, I go to the mountains in A Spirit of seeking, listening, reaching out to spirit powers of the Earth, looking for answers.  

We're feeling called upon to focus our group's work on concerns for a worsening global Climate crisis. Our group is learning about the consequences of failing to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% by 2030; Net ZERO by 2050.

Climate scientists are now warning us that, as the planet continues to warm, certain natural forces will come into play which will then precipitate quote “unstoppable warming.”  Natural forces like the melting of the Arctic permafrost, like shrinking ice sheets in the planet's northern and southern hemispheres' polar regions. Like changes in ocean currents. These natural forces will launch climate crisis into an advanced stage of climate breakdown. 

Worsening global climate will reach a point where global warming becomes quote “unstoppable.”

This all sounds very much like a doomsday forecast for the future of life on Earth.

 More and more we are convinced that it's going to take a real miracle for us to turn this worsening situation around and snatch a climate victory from the jaws of defeat.

There would be hope on the horizon if we could all join together in a global version of the Civilian Conservation Corps of the past century's economic crisis.

With A Global Climate Action Corps making miraculous progress towards net zero by 2050, there would indeed be hope on the horizon.

Dave Cree Hassig

 Co-Leader Living Lightly on Earth, Colton