I walk around my neighborhood and I see new housing developments going up where there were once fields. I see maps online in which the entire Western United States is colored deep red.

Our species is certainly special in many ways, but we also need to figure ourselves out before it’s too late. We not only affect the lives of (the world’s poorest) millions of people, but countless other species as well.

It is the great call to arms for the current generation, all of us alive today, to address climate change. Let us work together and contribute to the solution.