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Denizens of Earth:
Climate change is an issue. However we as a race are treating it like an assignment from a teacher that says "you can't do this the night before," but in this case it's the truth. The problem is real, but we're procrastinating in the thick of needing to combat a self-created problem. We will do too little too late.
We need to focus on a plan "B" we can work on to preserve the human legacy. We need to take to the stars! If we start our interest anew we can hope that we will be equipped to escape the toxic hell that we will face. To Mars, the Kuiper Belt, and beyond.
Zackery Jorgensen
Saratoga Springs