in december, i spoke with esther not kayla baron -- astronaut kayla baron. was aboard the international space station and i was at my home. she is traveling 17,500 miles per hour above us and orbiting the earth once every 90 minutes. i was honored that she took my call. i asked her what perspective this experience gave her about our collective home, this planet . she said something that really has stuck with me. she told me she was amazed by how thin our atmosphere is. how at night there is a burnt orange glow at it edge, revealing just how paperthin the layer is between the livable world and the nothingness of space. she said the most important thing we need to survive is the ability to breathe clean air. our planets fragile state is not just merely graph with a narrow point to that calamity. you saw floods go through the windows. people who lost 600,000 acres of commercial timber to wildfires. when i looked into the eyes of people who have lost their home and i see the pain they have, that is the pain of climate change and we have to do everything we can t