Dear Environmental Health colleagues, I am writing this note in a difficult time for all of us. We are facing a defining challenge for all of popus, but also with a sense of great purpose for those of us who have worked to improve general civic readiness for our climate destiny, chemical and biological hazard assessment capacity, and evidenced-based public health research. This work is carried out in the public sector, the intersectional social and environmental change movements, academic departments, and always in community-based campaigns and organizations. At this moment we also happen to possess the “gift” of having worried about these things, abstract threats, for a long time now (many of us). it’s easy to become dissipated and isolated by this or any crisis. We protect ourselves and those we care about. But we also have a role to play in helping people who need assistance and guidance and mostly emotional support and hope right a...