People are an amazing race and, if we have the will, I believe we have the ingenuity and resources to fix the harm we’ve done.

I hope that we manage to change the system really soon, while there is still time. So that you are not left with the mess, and trying to fix something that you didn’t cause. I hope we figured out a way to be kind, and caring for others who will suffer more than us. A way to let go of the greed and look at ways we can help others rather than take from them.

You ask insightful questions, and together we learn about the mysterious world we inhabit.

You should make a time machine and come back to past and solve all the problems.

Maya, my love, I promise to be courageous. I promise that when I face a decision, I will think of how it will impact you and your future. I promise that I’ll also step outside my individual decisions and add my weight to the forces that shift culture and systems.

I promise to do my part. I promise to be the change I want to see in the world, and I hope that you, reader, will do the same.

I want you to feel awestruck like I do. It is important to feel small sometimes, to feel the weight of reality, to recognize the scale of a challenge, to see where you fit and what you are up against. This is the case with climate change.

My own curiosity and knowing what a caring, aware young woman you are help me override despair.

A message from co-founder Jill Kubit:
Writing letters to our kids about climate change is hard. It should be.