ニッキー・リードさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニッキー・リードInstagram)「Hi guys happy Monday! Once a week my social media is given to a different student from our @yearsofliving #PutAPriceOnIt campaign to talk carbon pricing. This Sunday's post comes from Emily Radkowski, Our Climate Fellow and rising sophomore at UMass Amherst. We're so excited to share Emily's story from our Massachusetts campaign. “My New England woods have walls. I found one the other day, only a few feet high, made of cobblestones, and overgrown with a mossy coat. I doubt that the farmer who laid these stones anticipated that their actions would echo across centuries, that their handiwork would remind every wayfarer that ax and plow once dramatically transformed this landscape from forest to field. Today, our use of fossil fuels transforms our landscapes in staggering ways. We have chopped off the tops of mountains to access coal seams. Petroleum-derived plastics litter the oceans and choke marine life. Abandoned gas stations sit unused in almost every town and city on soils contaminated from decades of leaking tanks. Yet, when I see saplings and ferns surrounding stonewalls, I am reminded that our present trajectory is not our destiny. Farmlands have become forests once more. Our ecologies are resilient, but they require our assistance. That is why I fight for just and equitable climate policies because we, like the persistent trees and underbrush of my New England woods, can reclaim our landscapes.”」7月16日 2時51分