I grew up in the clear skies of SLC in the 60’s and moved to Southern California as a newlywed in the 80’s. The sky was grey there with pollution. People complained of chest pain. There was a large mountain range just 20 miles away that I NEVER KNEW EXISTED. Even on a clear day it was too smoggy to see more than a few miles. That’s like living in Magna and not ever seeing Mount Olympus and the Wasatch Mountains. And then it changed.
Continue readingDuring this time that we celebrate Earth Day I am reminded that the most effective thing we can do to combat climate change is to use legislative power to change our practices as a community.
I am a long time registered Republican mom of three, and am also presently working in elementary schools across the State as part of the iSEE network. I see these kids and realize it is my responsibility to hand off the planet to them in the best shape I can.
Continue readingOn this Earth Day 2020, I want to thank you for caring about our environment and the work your office does. Protecting our earth is an issue both Democrats and Republicans think is important. How exactly that happens will take both sides to be willing to compromise and see the other sides point of view. I encourage you to keep engaging with the other side for the health of our children and grandchildren, and because God has entrusted us to be good stewards of the earth.
When it comes to global warming, I know there are things we can do personally to take care of the earth, but without the help of government on a wider scale we cannot get to where we need to be. Personally, I am a fan of carbon pricing to incentivize industries to create cleaner energy solutions.
I was my daughter’s age — 12 — when I found out about global warming while reading a magazine in my room in 1991. This was not long after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate almost issued its first report, which said that global average temperatures had already increased by .5°F and, if we continued to release greenhouse gasses, temps would go up by 1.8°F by 2025.
We’re up to about 1.9° now.
Continue readingAs a woman of faith, I believe that we should be good stewards of our environment. For example, President Russell M. Nelson proclaimed: “We should care for the earth, be wise stewards over it, and preserve it for future generations.” Caring for the environment is a spiritual responsibility and a commandment (see Numbers 35:33-34, Doctrine and Covenants 104:13-17). I take seriously the important obligation to safeguard the earth and her resources for our children and the generations that follow. As Wendell Berry once said, “To damage the earth is to damage your children.” We may not have to face the worst consequences of our inaction in our lifetimes, but our children will.
Continue readingI am a resident and concerned citizen of Tennessee, and of our beautiful United States.
I love the outdoors, I love learning how to live a more sustainable lifestyle, and I enjoy the state and national parks so close at my disposal. However, as a citizen, an inhabitant of this planet, and a steward of this earth, I am concerned.
Continue readingI am writing today to urge you in any capacity that you are able to help stem the tide of climate change. Growing up in a conservative household I never understood the resistance to stop climate change efforts – this should not be a partisan issue! Please do all you can to help in society’s efforts to take better care of the earth. Sustainability should be our short term goal, reciprocity in the long term: are there ways that we can live and structure our society that can actually HELP the earth? I believe we can.
Continue readingI’m an independent voter writing for your support regarding a number of environmental issues facing our planet. I have grandchildren and great grandchildren that I want to be able to enjoy clean air, water and enough food to sustain them. I firmly believe that if a great effort is not made to save our planet they will not have the luxuries of these elements that we take for granted.
Continue readingI look at rapidly changing temperatures, increased natural disasters, rising sea water, and diminishing ice at the poles, and it terrifies me. We know these changes are caused by climate change. What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren?
Continue readingFor the past week, my two preschool-age sons and I have been celebrating Earth Day. We have talked about the ways this planet nourishes and cares for us and our responsibility to care for our beautiful Earth.
It has prompted me to think of similar discussions I had with my parents when I was younger. I know our family has tried to do our part to protect the environment and we’ve been getting better at it in the last 30 years. But the efforts of a single American family or even many families is not enough to counteract the irresponsibility of corporate actors.
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