Dear Canary Media reader,
Could you resist a plea from this lovable pup? I know I can’t. When Lily needs one other walk across the block, I’m powerless to withstand.
I’m hoping that a few of Lily’s persuasiveness will rub off on me at the moment as I make my plea. Hear me out.
I’m one of many luckiest journalists on the earth. For the previous two and a half years, as Canary Media’s director of reports, I’ve been capable of get up each morning excited to take my subsequent crack at understanding and conveying the complexity and urgency of the best problem humankind has ever confronted — tips on how to rework our fossil-fueled industrial financial system and society to 1 powered by clear vitality, and arranged in a method that embraces, slightly than ignores, the inexorable legal guidelines of physics and ecology.
It’s not at all times enjoyable. Each day, I should confront and canopy the tough realities that may typically make this transformation seem to be a wishful mirage — the inertia and complacency of political and monetary powers that be, the fractious and too typically falsely knowledgeable discourse within the public sphere, and the perverse incentives of short-term profit-seeking that stymie the initiative to fight local weather change. The undeniable fact that these threats are not hypothetical however all too actual — and that they fall the toughest on these of us with the least energy — provides guilt and rage to the despair I typically really feel.
But I’m pleased to report that these emotions are outmatched by the inspiration I obtain from my each day work with all the individuals — such as you — who’re rising to satisfy the problem. Every day I get to be taught from among the smartest and most impressed individuals I’ve ever met — people who find themselves growing and making use of cutting-edge applied sciences, crafting progressive public insurance policies, and dedicating themselves to the collective motion wanted to hold out this transformation. I owe my skilled profession and my private function to those individuals — to all of you.
Today I’m writing you (and shamelessly roping in my canine) to ask a favor: Can you donate to Canary Media to help me and my colleagues continue our reporting? We can be vastly grateful.
We’re a nonprofit, so all donations are tax-deductible. Do you’re employed for a firm that matches charitable contributions? Then your reward would make much more impression.
No different information outlet is doing what Canary Media does — deep-dive, accessible, partaking reporting on what’s wanted to make the vitality transition a actuality, available free for everybody to learn. But we are able to’t sustain that work with out assist from our group of readers. Please help us out.
I thanks — and Lily thanks you even extra.
Sincerely,
Jeff St. John
Director of News and Special Projects
Canary Media
