1 0 0 YEARS OUT: ADAPT SURVIVE THRIVE

A Poem

Here We Are, At the Beginning and the End: the Future Now

we are thinking about survival

we are thinking about

challenges we are facing

in this warming world

we are thinking about how humanity and

our communities

fortify and

shore themselves up

for the next 100 years

we are thinking about

how our communities can

adapt

survive

thrive

for the next 100 years

we are thinking about how we can fight for and ensure

equity

access

and compassion

for all

for the next 100 years

for the next 100 years

how to

illuminate a way

a path

a highway

to a quality life

one that all desire

one that all deserve

for the next 100 years

for the next 100 years

for the next 100 years

Young People of the Nation!

how do we adapt, survive, and thrive?

we have to think future-forward

dig deep

think wide

true hearts

open eyes

sci-fi fantastical

we have to imagine

what kinds of challenges our communities will face

on this warming Earth

and answer with our our imaginations

to innovate our way humanely forward

we have inherited a warming world

a warming world that is precipitating

difficult

and disastrous events

natural

social

political

in scope

a world in which it will be increasingly difficult to survive

this is a call to arms

this is a call to arms

a call to arms

a call to arms

a call to brilliance

slake thirst

stave hunger

provide home for those here

provide refuge and solace for those displaced

how do we adapt, survive and thrive?

we must think about

building

willing

particle theory-ing

into

existence

a survivable

thrivable

sustainable

equitable

future

now