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The next few years present a time of choice. Do we continue down the path of fossil fuel destruction of the world’s climate and life support systems, or do we embrace the future with renewable energy, clean technology and innovation that can transform our world? The United States, the country with the largest economy and carbon footprint in the world, will choose a new President in 2024. Will we become a shining example to the world? Will we choose one who can lead America and the world through the Great Transition into a Sustainable Future or a President who maintains the status quo of a world-wide economy based on the extraction and burning of fossil fuels and the consequential catastrophic collapse of the biosphere?
Mother Earth is at a crossroads. Nature has given us warnings for decades, and she is not constrained by political ideologies, national boundaries, race, color or culture. Unmitigated climate change, coupled with an expanding human population of 7.8 billion (projected to reach 10 billion by mid-century) and one of the most critical leadership elections on the planet looming ahead. Next year may become a tipping point in the history of the human race and for all life on earth.
We must ask — do we continue the trajectory of racing toward the 6th great extinction which is unprecedented in 65 million years, or do we embrace a future based on the shifting of consciousness in mass to a higher level of attention, awareness and understanding of the impact our presence has in the web of life and the balance of the biosphere that enables all life to continue?
This has become our choice and it’s time to choose.
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