Thousands of fire, flood,
hurricane, tornado and heat
survivors from across 50 states.
hurricane, tornado and heat
survivors from across 50 states.
“We’re not numbers.
We are not invisible.
We’re human beings.”
– Bebá Zarate
Flood Survivor, CA
Our Stories,
in our Words
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Your Voice Matters
“I will find a way to fight.”
“We thought this was going to be our forever home, but now we’re looking at it as in how many years do we have left until we can’t take it anymore and we have to move somewhere else.”
“Why are all these costs always dumped on us? On regular people? We already lost everything, now we can’t afford our insurance premiums or can’t get insured, can’t afford to fill up our gas tank, can’t afford to keep our homes cool. Can’t these companies with all these profits, can’t they chip in a bit too?”
“Wouldn’t it be amazing if Vermont became more of a model about how we are going to tackle climate change? It would be amazing for my kids.”
“We have to come together and help each other.”
“We need to rethink the way we approach the next ten years… instead of making grand political gestures that don’t really impact people’s lives.”
“I feel trapped with my daughter in my home. My daughter’s only three. She wants to go play outside and I’m like, ‘It’s too hot.’ It’s too hot. It’s simply not safe.”
“It’s important for me to tell my story so that people who haven’t been touched by this can learn from it.”
“These expenses with climate change and everything else that goes up in price, it has a real paralyzing effect. You can’t respond because you don’t have any money.”
“It can be really lonely being in this situation and feel really isolating in a lot of ways; I think it’s important that people share their experiences because maybe that will help another community.”
“It impacts all of us, and it shouldn’t be a political issue. It’s about our survival and the survival of future generations.”