Please pass this climate change article to your "Uncle Bob".

"So I just don’t get it. Do you really think it’s wise to bet the future of our planet on the hope that 97 percent of climate scientists are wrong? Why not seek solutions while we can?"   

Soapbox: An open letter to Uncle Bob regarding climate change 

Todd Mitchell is a Fort Collins resident.

We all know an "Uncle Bob/Aunt Bobbie" and he or she needs to understand what is happening now. As a species we have managed to survive calamity beyond my imagination. Some of those disasters were natural, most were caused by humankind's constant want of more. Now nature itself is changing because of our unquenchable thirst.

However you look at it, God or no, we have only this one Earth. By chance or divine intervention, here we are on this perfect planet, and it came with all these resources. They looked unlimited when all we could do was stand on a hill. Now we understand how small and isolated Earth is.

We all must start making conscious decisions about our future, our children's future, humanity's future. You had better start now. It will only be getting worse. We can no longer prevent the "Hot Generation". We twiddled our thumbs to the facts and chose to believe the lies. "Someone else will take care of it." we thought. Now all we can do is try to prevent the "last generation".

So, as my father used to say (His name was Bob, a different kind of Bob) "Get up off your dead asses and do something!" You have seen the children suffering famine with their eyes hopelessly pleading? They are looking at you. The mother holding her dead child mouthing the word "Why?". She is asking you. And if you don't DEMAND CHANGE, imagine those images from the news when you look in the mirror.