Maybe you are not an expert in climate change but for sure you are an expert in raising your children and you are taking any effort to protect them against any possible harm that could spoil their life now and in the future.
Well, then it is high time you realize that there is one of those threats in view. It is not an everyday threat like, say, a car to avoid in crossing the street, or a wasp possibly stinging one of your children.
It is Big and it is Global and it is starting to get Dangerous right now and it will worsen very much unless you take some precautions. Your children could actually be exposed to and face a much warmer world than the one you where grown into.
Warmer means more dangerous, as in a warmer world there could be less food for your children, and theirs. There could be wars stemming from the scarcity of water and food. There could be immense migrations far exceeding the ones we already see now. There could be no more snow on the mountains because of warmer winters, no more beaches for holidays because of raising sea level, no more forests to take a stroll because of uncontrollable fires.
Life could get miserable for all of us, also for your children. Unless.
Unless you realize what climate change and global warming really mean for you and your children.
Unless you raise your voice in the name of your children and ask the powerful and the rich to stop spoiling the climate of planet earth and the future of us all.
Unless you tell them we need good food, fresh water, clean air, and pristine landscapes to carry out lives worth living, and that all this is in threat because the powerful and the rich do not want to change.
Unless you tell them to change. Change from dirty oil, dirty coal, dirty gas, to clean power, made from sunshine and wind.
Dirty fossil fuels are pouring enormous amounts of carbon in the air. It is invisible but it is there and growing. It is spoiling our climate and menacing the survival of your very children.
Don’t look any more at a blue or starry sky without thinking of it.
Carbon dioxide is accumulating over your head and pushing the natural greenhouse effect, now keeping the planet warm enough for life, to new dangerous levels year after year, day after day.
Remember planet Venus, very near the earth but impossible to live on, as too much carbon dioxide pushes its temperature as high as 400 degrees Celsius (750 F).
Scientists are telling you that there is not much time left for change and that changes must start right now.
We need new laws to make us no more dependent on fossil fuels and to make us all dependent on the freely available sunshine and winds.
Politicians must realize that you are asking that for the sake of your children, and that your vote depends on that.
They must deliver and they have to do it right now at all levels, from your city lord mayor up to the central government.
Please read carefully the news about climate change, with the same care you devote to ensure a healthy dinner for your children. They have the same importance for them.
Please contact other mothers and discuss this subject with them. Please explain this to your husband and parents.
Look at your children and fight to protect them against global warming.
Your children will thank you for doing so.