Climate Change so often seems too big to get our hands around. We wonder where we can start and how we can actually make a difference. Each one of us has a different path that we will follow. Some of us cut a wider swath than others, but each of us has a role to play. We would like to introduce you to some amazing individuals, ClimateMamas and Papas who are making a difference, who are, through their daily lives, affecting the lives of all of us. They inspire us, empower us, and challenge us to reach for the stars, to strive to do the best we can to help change the crash course we are currently on with our environment.
Remember, this site is for all you Climate Mamas and Papas, wherever you call home.
P.S. If you know of an amazing Climate Mama or Papa (you?) please reach out to us. We’d love to feature them (you) on our site!
Joyous, overwhelming, indescribable….holding my children for the first time. Feelings of responsibility wash over me, the realization that it is my “job” to make the world as safe and as secure as I can. Motherhood – not only providing a safe “womb,” – but also providing a “safe” world for my children to grow and flourish in. I live where access to clean water, food, and shelter are all easily within my reach. This is not the case for so many of our Climate Mamas and Papas – too often the climate crisis is daily reality.
For those of us in the global north, it is often unseen that we need to mind, to remember and to address – our forgettable but unforgivable actions that are making our world unsafe for our children – the fumes escaping from our cars; the energy that is burned and escapes into the sky when we heat and cool our homes; and the needless waste, as we buy products wrapped in beautiful packages, packages that end up in the garbage within minutes of reaching our homes. Pollution, carbon dioxide, human created greenhouse gases of all kinds – climate pollution – regularly are poisoning our water, our earth, and our children.
As Climate Mamas and Papas many of us have the opportunity to reach out and talk to people in our communities, our families, and our work places about the dangers we are facing with climate change. Remember to not only talk, but to listen too.
To me – my job, my calling, my profession, my passion, and my RESPONSIBILITY as a mother – it all makes sense. Transformational; my eyes are now wide open. I know what we face. I know what we are up against. You need to know too.
Join me and demand a better future for our children and our grandchildren. We need to stop burning fossil fuels. We need to demand a clean energy future for our children. As they grow, and ask you what you did, when you had the chance to change their future, you can tell them you didn’t stand by – you raised the alarm and demanded solutions. Our job as parents, caregivers, uncles, aunts and caring adults is to protect and nurture our children. Join me as we stand up for our mother, Mother Earth. She is hurt, she is crying, and she is angry! She is showing us, in no uncertain terms, that we need to do something, and do it now.
Yours,
Harriet
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