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And people are going to say that they had no idea.

What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?

What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?

What if the rainforest ADVANCES?

What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?

What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?

What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?

What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?

What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?

What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?

What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?

What if we win?

The condors are back. The whales are saved. The sea turtles are no longer endangered. The cranes are back. The bees are recovering. The air in LA and Tokyo and London is clean again. The aquifers in the LA Basin are refilling.

Children are kinder than previous generations. Parents are stopping the abuse cycle. Being trans and queer is more acceptable than ever on a ground level.

It's hard to see if you're young, if you don't know how to step back from social media and the news. But remember--bad news sells, and the algorithm knows despair keeps you scrolling. It's a skewed lens.

We are fighting and we are winning against this adminstration's bullying. We are coming together against the bullies and they are running away scared because they don't understand that we will do that.

People are working hard every day to find ways to make sure fewer animals get hit by cars and planes and rockets.

Maker spaces are more common than ever. Solar and wind are more common than ever. Coal plants are shutting down every day.

Unprecedented numbers of acres are being bought back or given back to their rightful stewards, and the world heals because of it. People are working hard every day to learn how to help a forest recover faster.

We are not at zero. We are at decades of effort to heal the world. We've come SO far.

In 1982 there were only 22 California Condors left in the world. In 1992, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), with its public and private partners, began reintroducing captive-bred condors to the wild. In 2001 the first wild nesting occurred in Grand Canyon National Park since re-introduction. In 2002 there were only 8 pairs of wild nesting birds population-wide. In 2008, for the first time since the program began, more California condors were flying free in the wild than in captivity. Today there are nearly 500 – more than half of them flying free in Arizona, Utah, California, and Baja Mexico.

When I was born, there were no condors in the wild. I'm 37 now, and there are over 250 condors flying free.

When my mom was born in 1955, there were days when she wasn't allowed to go outside to play, because of the air pollution. When I was born, that never happened anymore.

When I was born, humpback whales were critically endangered, and people thought they were going to go extinct. Today, they've recovered to exceed their recorded numbers. Other whales too!

We fixed it.

Since 1990 extreme poverty has decreased worldwide by over HALF.

The current that powers the Atlantic Ocean is called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). This current brings warm water north to the Arctic - and south to the Antarctic - which helps regulates the climates of Africa, Europe, and North America which makes it one of, if not the most, crucial currents on the planet; and easily the most critical current in the Atlantic. There is a growing cold "blob" of water off the coast of Greenland that indicates that AMOC has weakened further which will have catastrophic effects globally.

Scientist have watched with concern as the cold water blob has grown over the last couple of decades because it shows that AMOC is longer able to distribute heat as efficiently as it once was able to. The growth of this blob is in contrast to the dramatic increase in the surface water temperatures that we've seen elsewhere in the Atlantic, and around the world.

Amidst the historical AMOC slowdown, a long-term cooling trend of surface temperature has been observed to the south of Greenland10,11 (Fig. 1a), which is known as the North Atlantic Warming Hole (NAWH)12, and in contrast to global warming elsewhere13. The formation of the NAWH was attributed primarily to the AMOC slowdown and associated meridional oceanic heat transport divergence across the North Atlantic." - Kai-Yuan Li & Wei Liu, Communication earth & enviornment

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Not only does this indicate that AMOC is struggling to bring warm water up north to the Arctic, it also means that cold water is no longer being brought south to the equator and beyond. There is growing evidence that the slowing of this critical ocean current has shifted weather patterns and driven the increase in violent hurricanes in the Caribbean, torrential rain falls along the African west coast, and the deadly heat waves that have roiled Europe over the last decade.

The increased rainfall will also screw over crop production in the American northeast, and the African west coast, as their fields will be inaccessible for longer which would make it more difficult to get crops planted and harvested in time before the winter hits. There is also a chance that Europe may unlock more arable land as the globe continues to warm, if AMOC continues to slow the wouldn't be able to access the fields due to the increased droughts on the continent and those gains would be wiped out.

Scientist have used data from satellites and ocean monitoring sensors to check in on AMOC. But their ability to monitor the current, and ocean temps, has been threatened as the Trump administration currently has plans to remove 900 deep-sea monitoring instruments that have played a key part in these studies.

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