President Biden,

We address you and your office with great respect and commend your efforts to address the threat of global warming. Your convocation of leaders and activists in your recent Leaders Summit on Climate is a good initial step towards Glasgow.

We need a Constitutional amendment to address the health of our country, the planet and the threat of global warming.

THE 28TH CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SHALL GIVE LEGAL PROTECTION TO THE ENVIRONMENT UPON WE AND ALL LIFE DEPEND. THAT IT SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXIST AND THRIVE AND BE LEGALLY PROTECTED FROM EXPLOITATION, POLLUTION, MALICE, GREED AND HUMAN HARM.

The United States along with its G8 partners must steadfastly promote that ECOSYSTEMS HAVE RIGHTS TO EXIST AND THRIVE. We must help amend and ratify constitutions worldwide to convey CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS to oceans, rivers, lakes, estuaries, forests, savannas, valleys, meadows, mountains. That these shall have the right to remain undeveloped and unburdened by profit or short gain, and to be afforded legal protection from assailing pollution and harm, intentional or not. There can be no environmental justice otherwise. These ecosystems are the lungs and the blood of life on the planet. These diverse pluralities make the planet whole. We have failed to be proper stewards of the biodiversity that nurtures us.

We now boast a space force, yet our planet remains unprotected and unguarded from human malice, greed, and profit at the expense of nature.

We may not get to a 28th constitutional amendment during your tenure, for our society is too politically divided. But the groundwork must be laid now by the brick and mortar of urgency and necessity.

How many pages remain in human history? We bear the burden of responsibility for what we have destroyed and destroying is easy. Our most onerous task is building and preserving.

The pressing times require your presidency to be ambitious. America is tasked to find solutions that are not just national but global as each day the world becomes more local. The present pandemic is testament to that.

RAS