Climate change is posing a serious threat to the earth and to the well-being of mankind, and it is not hard to see that it is occurring. Gone are the days of winters that build up and wind down slowly; instead winters waiver between extreme snow events and summer-like temperatures. Ice skating on local ponds is a thing of the past. Back in the 90s, climatologists predicted that global warming would lead not just to localized warming, but to extreme weather events of all kinds, and we're seeing that now. I have children whose futures I worry about constantly. We need our government to do what it can to promote the switch to renewable energy. Across the country, renewable energy has been the biggest source of job growth in the energy sector, so the argument that switching to renewable energy will undermine Virginia's economy just doesn't hold. Many European countries are also quickly ramping up their infrastructure to support renewable energy, so why not us?  Let's be leaders and not followers in the realm of energy development.