Xiye Bastida

The second tool for hope is learning insights from nature. I grew up learning that nature is very wise, that we must act in reciprocity, in harmony and in balance, but you don't really learn insights from nature until you truly observe, when you truly immerse yourself. A few years ago, I was walking down a beach, and I saw how with each step my footprints would be marked on the sand. The stronger I stepped, the deeper the footprint would be.

Ja olin huomannut, että olen aina sanonut, että pitäisi jättää markkia tälle maailmalle. Jos haluaisin todellisesti jättää markkia, olisin pysynyt edelleen ja pysynyt pysyväksi. Päästämme isomman kuvan. Emme pysty tekemään sitä, missä pitäisi olla, koska olemme liian keskittyneet jättämään markkia.

Learning from nature leads to connection, and connection leads to this deep feeling of stewardship. That fuels my fire, it really does. I know that I will never stop fighting for this beautiful planet, even when there is ups and downs in the movement. If we're popular or not popular, it doesn't matter, because I have seen many things that I'm blessed to have seen.

The third tool for hope is conscious, vivid imagination. Every single story that I have been told about the future, especially when it comes to climate, has been futures with no water, cities frozen over because a climate solution went wrong.

Meillä on vain yhdessä yhteinen ajatus tulevaisuudesta, jossa emme pysty elämään luonnossa. Meillä on ollut se, ja näen, miten se on ilmaisua. Meidän on helpompi katsoa tällaisia elokuvia tai elokuvia,

Have you thought about how it's way harder to imagine positive futures? It is harder to think in the year 2050, waking up one morning and thinking about how that day is going to be. And some of the most beautiful times that I share with my fellow climate activists is when we sit together and we ask, what does the future look like if we win? And all of a sudden, the future is truly beautiful.

I imagine taking my granddaughter to see the reefs. I imagine taking my grandson to see the ice. I imagine a world where we don't have to run from hurricanes or wildfires. I imagine a world where we are connected and our kids get to experience the world that we have the privilege to see.

I've been called naive many, many times. And I think the naivety is to believe that we keep going in the way that we are and thinking that we will be OK.

I have spent my life in this and I will keep doing it. My ask from you is that you see my fire and that you mirror it. My ask from you is that you shine so bright that the future can see you. My ask is that we become vessels of the fire of humanity that makes us truly who we are.

I will leave you with one last thought, which is we marched by the thousands, not because we wanted to change government and businesses, not because we wanted empowerment and we wanted community. We marched because every single step represented a possibility that we could get a better future. And I invite you to walk every day in your lives

With each step that we take, we are walking into possibility. Thank you.