How do we save this fucking planet?

I’m one of those people. I’m currently in college, trying to get my bachelors’ degree in environmental science.

It’s a long and depressing road, but rest assured, there is an entire generation of bright, young, smart, politically aware, and spirited students working hard, day in and day out, in the laboratories and the lecture halls and the internships and the field work. I am simultaneously happy about my choice of education, and conscious of the Herculean effort it will take.

But even with all the suffering and pain that’s now unavoidable, we can at least mitigate and defend against some of the damage - and critically, find ways to rebuild. We will survive, we will win, and we will get through, as a species. It does not matter whose flag you fly anymore. Money cannot buy oxygen.

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