A New Year of Climate Action & Challenges
As we turn to a new year, climate change and the threat it poses to people and the environment top the headlines, as do the challenges a changing governmental landscape could bring to the efforts to address its impact. Now, more than ever, it is essential that the work to strengthen the resilience of our community and to lessen its contribution to climate change continues. The Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative is grateful for the efforts of our partners, supporters and those on the Cape who undertook the difficult task of tackling this existential threat in 2024, and we encourage all to press forward, undeterred, in this important work in 2025.
The work ahead remains difficult, as we are reminded almost daily with new reports of record heat, drought, floods and fire ravaging our world. It is easy to understand why some may throw up their hands in despair, but, as the environmental activist and author Rebecca Solnit tells us in her new book with Thelma Young Lutunatabua, Not Too Late, “Hope means recognizing the uncertainty of the future and making a commitment to try to participate in shaping it. It means facing difficulties and accepting uncertainty. To hope is to recognize that you can protect some of what you love even while grieving what you cannot - and to know that we must act without knowing the outcome of those actions.”
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