it's never one individual. Far from it. It has to be a critical mass of people who bring their ingenuity, their innovation, their creative thinking a… - Christiana Figueres

We have the capital, the technology, the policies. And we have the scientific knowledge to understand that we have to half our emissions by 2030. So we are facing the most consequential fork in the road. If we continue as now, we are going to be irreparably going down a course of constant destruction, with much human pain and biodiversity loss. Or we can choose to go in the other direction, a path of reconstruction and regeneration, and at least diminish the negative impacts of climate change to something that is manageable. But we can only choose it this decade. Our parents did not have this choice, because they didn’t have the capital, technologies and understanding. And for our children, it will be too late. So this is the decade and we are the generation.

We're not victims of the past; we are creators and creators of the future.

Whatever we hold as being possible, and whatever values and principles we live by, determine the actions that we take.