 Clark and I are here to seek your valuable endorsement for the Arlington Declaration of Climate Emergency and its war article. COVID-19 has put a stop to many things around the world, but as of today, Arlingtonians came together to protest for one thing which is climate change. In 2020, a growing number of Massachusetts municipalities issued declarations of climate emergency, adding Arlington to the rapidly growing list of cities and towns that have adopted climate emergency declarations would bolster local climate initiatives and strengthen wider state and regional efforts. We will continue our outreach efforts into the spring in order to garner support for passing the war article during the 2021 town meeting. We request your valuable endorsement of this war article. Resolution to declare climate emergency in the town of Arlington. To see if the town will vote to endorse a resolution calling for a declaration of climate emergency in which the town would take immediate action in areas within the town's authority to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, report on the quantity of the town's emissions, promote and encourage climate action by other governmental authorities, and protect the rights of people at greatest risk for the purpose of reducing harm from the pace of warming and global ecological collapse to the maximum extent possible or take any action related thereto. The warrant article proposed is accompanied by a more detailed resolution to mitigate climate disruption in our warming world. The draft resolution for Arlington has five provisions. The full length version of this short video goes through the five provisions one by one. Over the past six months we have held a series of fun and lively community outreach events in cooperation with Sunrise, Extinction Rebellion, Mothers Outfront, and Sustainable Arlington. We've distributed yard signs, collected signatures, and submitted the warrant article that we hope you will support. And we met with key stakeholders who have done so much for climate action in Arlington for so many years. East Arlington Livable Streets endorsed our warrant article in October. Sustainable Arlington endorsed it in January. Mothers Outfront endorsed it in February. And we have upcoming meetings with other important stakeholders. We have done our best to base our declaration on the science and to support rather than contradict the good work the town is already doing. But also to emphasize the honest limits of the current plan on the table and to continue to push for bolder, faster action.