If we learned anything in 2020, it is that we need a unified American community if we are to defeat this virus and return to normal life.

If we can wed the genius of free enterprise to the goal of a less polluted planet, we might find a pathway back to an American environmental consensus.

The future I would like to see depends on the election tomorrow and on a unified national mobilization to finally address the COVID crisis.

Human ingenuity and persistence give me hope and help me navigate the worst public health catastrophe in a century.

We need to learn how to work together again as an American community. The alternative is to die alone while clinging to our ideologies and sense of moral superiority.

We need to overcome divisions and come together in a single human community to combat a threat that disregards national boundaries.

We need effective state and federal environmental cops to protect the fragile blue dot in the vast vacuum of space that we call home.