Daniel Kammen

The climate emergency will require a mix of decisive and inclusive action, and the Biden-Harris administration has already shown it is up for the challenge.

The UC Berkeley community must step up again and further educate itself, as well as partner locally and globally on a range of climate-smart actions.

UC Berkeley students can play a most immediate and hugely impactful nationwide role by reaching out to fellow students, parents and friends both across California and across the country to highlight how doubling down on equitable clean energy projects offers a rare and genuine win-win at a time when the country is more divided than ever.

Human-caused climate change is a fact — sorry, fake news enthusiasts — and it is causing increasingly costly impacts on everything from human health to ecosystem health. It is increasing inequality, creating situations where the poor do not have the means to respond to higher food, energy or medical costs.