We are walking because we want to make this world safer and more viable for
our grandchildren. Global warming is one of the greatest threats to life on this
planet, with the potential to cause immense suffering to the generations that
follow ours: to our children and especially our grandchildren and great-
grandchildren.
We believe we must cooperate with all efforts around the world to reduce the
effects of global warming. We must do our share to reduce carbon emissions by
changing our individual consumption patterns, and by enacting and enforcing
legislation that will drastically decrease our national output of greenhouse gases.
We are walking to call attention to global warming, and hopefully to inspire people along the way to do whatever they can to fight this danger. We are not scientists or environmental experts. We are grandmothers (and grandfathers, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, neighbors, teachers…), concerned citizens who love the earth and its creatures. We hope that large numbers of Americans are ready to join in this challenge to change our ways.
What exactly do we need to do? Our success will lie in a combination of good individual efforts, good laws, and good inventions.
It is our belief that the most effective solutions are those that can be mandated by the Government. We know it is part of the American spirit to resist big government, but it is also part of our spirit to rise to big challenges. This is an extraordinary time when we must demand that our government set radical goals and we must be ready to take on those mandates as our own. So we are walking to urge you to rise to the challenge and act boldly for the sake of all the grandchildren.
