Taking action on climate change is about so much more than just burning less fossil fuels, it's about a vision for how we live together as a community and how we can create a more awesome, humane, technologically and culturally rich and socially inspiring future for us all. It was so exciting to see the overwhelming response to our community engagement; to hear about people’s concerns, people’s successes (as well as their failures) and most of all people’s ideas. We heard that, as a community, we need to:

• Stand with the most vulnerable among us as well as in the best interest of our common goals.

• Come up with creative solutions that take into account people and not just policies.

• Bring in new voices from often-unheard segments of the community.

• Treat the people that are in fear for their jobs generously and with thanks, rather than demonizing those jobs and not providing a safety net as those jobs are retired out.

• Find a way to move forward on climate in a manner that also addresses our other pressing community concerns such as affordable housing, mental health, jobs and inequality.

We know, from everything you said, that we already have all the tools we need to fix climate change. We just need to use them. Our biggest obstacle right now is that we are running out of time. Both people and governments are slower to move than we need and bad ideas die-hard.

We are, at this moment in the midst of an unprecedented triple crisis: a public health crisis, an economic crisis, and a climate crisis, each unlike anything we’ve ever faced. The threads of these three existential threats are intricately and tragically interwoven. Turns out, the most effective way to unravel them all may be to solve them together. If there was ever a time to be bold, this is it. As individuals, as a community and through our political levers and representatives we need to act. Now.