We can feel the connections between us.

We can feel the brokenness and the closing window to heal it.

This earth, our home, is telling us that a better way of being must emerge and fast.

In my experience, to have eyes wide open

is to hold a broken heart every day.

It's a grief that I rarely speak,

though my work calls on the power of voice.

I remind myself that the heart can simply break,

or it can break open.

A broken, open heart is awake,

and alive and calls for action.

It is regenerative, like nature.

Reclaiming ruined ground, growing anew.

Life moves inexorably toward more life, toward healing, toward wholeness.

That's a fundamental ecological truth.

And we, all of us, we are life force.

On the face of it, the primary link between women, girls and a warming world

is not life but death.

Awareness is growing that climate impacts hit women and girls hardest,

given existing vulnerabilities.

There is greater risk of displacement,

higher odds of being injured or killed during a natural disaster.

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