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I believe mankind has looked at climate change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, as if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.But I think we know better than that. Every week , we’re seeing new and undeniable climate events, evidence that accelerated climate change is here right now. Droughts are intensifying, our oceans are acidifying, with methane plumes rising up from the ocean floor. We are seeing extreme weather events, and the West Antarctic and Greenland ice-sheets melting at unprecedented rates, decades ahead of scientific projections. None of this is rhetoric, and none of it is hysteria. It is fact. The scientific community knows it, industry knows it, governments know it, even the United States military knows it. The Chief of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Locklear, recently said that climate change is our single greatest security threat.My Friends, this body – perhaps more than any other gathering in human histo...

You’ve changed me. I used to see the world as black and white. Now everything is gray and messy, full of nuance and beauty because of you. In an alternate universe, we’ll still be together. A team ready for anything. But where I’m heading now, I have to go on my own. I want to be the man you think I am, so know I am doing this to do the right things. And that means saying GOODBYE. I know this is a difficult conversation. But I care about you very much. And that’s why it’s important that I set these boundaries moving forward, so I can built an environment, where we feel comfortable, trusted and open to sharing our feelings. The truth is for so long I’d forgotten what those even were. I‘ve been stuck in one place “in a cave” you might say. And then I left some egos out in the woods, and you came into my life and for the first time in a long time, I started to feel things. I started to feel happy. But lately, I guess I’ve been feeling distance from you. But I know you’re getting older...