A Founding Member letter from Climate Change Community and Climate Tribe Social

If an invitation brought you here, welcome — this is the message it pointed you to. Some of you received a long letter from me and some a short note. However you arrived, the invitation is the same, and it is sincerely yours.

You Were Chosen, Not Collected

This letter did not reach you by accident. It did not come from a mailing list, a purchased database, or a campaign blast. I chose you. I sat with your work, with your words, and with the way you hold people’s attention and then hand them something worth keeping, and I decided that you belong in the first circle of what we are building. Over the coming weeks I am sending a limited number of these, one at a time. Every name was weighed with care.

So let me begin where an honest invitation should: with thanks. Whether you reach a few hundred readers or millions of listeners, you have done something rare. You have made people feel less alone in what they are thinking, and more willing to think it through. That is the gift this moment needs.

Why I Am Writing to You Now

In February 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called the warming of our climate system “unequivocal.” That is when climate awareness stopped being something I read about and became something I could not put down. For just shy of fourteen years I also worked in the court system as a Tech Support Specialist, in daily conversation with judges, court officers, and law and bench clerks. It taught me something I carry into this work: evidence matters, testimony matters, and the verdict arrives whether we are ready for it or not.

The evidence is in. The IPCC’s 2023 Synthesis Report warned of “a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.” That same summer, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the era of global warming had ended and the era of global boiling had arrived. The World Meteorological Organization has since confirmed that 2024 was the first calendar year in which global average temperature ran more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels — the line the Paris Agreement asked the world to defend. A single year above it is not the same as breaching the Agreement’s long-term goal, which is measured across decades. It is still a signal we were told to expect much later than this.

I do not share this to frighten you. You already know it, and fear has never built anything lasting. I share it because what happens next cannot be left to governments, markets, or headlines alone. It will be decided by whether ordinary people, guided by trusted voices, learn to respond together.

History Is Watching

Every generation is handed at least one moment when what people do in a short window decides what their grandchildren inherit. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. named the feeling: we are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

Think about how those moments were actually won. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days, and it was not one speech that carried it — it was thousands of people walking to work, organizing carpools, and refusing to give up on each other. Seven years later one writer, Rachel Carson, published Silent Spring, a single book that helped awaken a nation and left us a line that sits at the heart of this work: in nature, nothing exists alone. The first Earth Day, the women of India’s Chipko movement, the Montreal Protocol that every nation on Earth eventually joined — each proves the same thing. When people organize across their differences, the impossible becomes policy. History did not only remember the marchers. It remembered the people who gave them the words.

A Story About a Hummingbird

The late Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, loved to tell an old story.

A great fire broke out in the forest. Every animal fled to the edge and stood watching, frozen by the size of the flames. Only one small hummingbird flew to the stream, took a single drop of water in its beak, and flew back to drop it on the fire. Again and again it went. The elephant, with its great trunk, laughed and asked what the little bird thought it could possibly do. The hummingbird answered without stopping: “I am doing the best I can.”

Maathai said she would be a hummingbird, and she lived it — beginning in 1977 with women in rural Kenya, the movement she founded went on to plant tens of millions of trees. Climate Tribe Social is a gathering place for hummingbirds. More than that, it is a place where we learn to carry the water together, so that no one has to carry it alone.

What We Are Building

Climate Change Community LLC exists to help turn climate concern into climate competence. Our flagship, Climate Tribe Social — some of us already call it Climate Tribe City — is organized around what we call the Five Emergencies: the Climate Emergency, the Ecological Emergency, the Humanity Emergency, the Democracy Emergency, and the Displacement Emergency. A free foundation called The Commons holds the news, the archive, the climate basics, and The Symposium, where the larger conversations happen. Around it sit themed Collections and Spaces: cafés for nurses, firefighters, teachers and farmworkers; Language Dialogue Lounges, so that climate conversation does not require English; Spaces for Indigenous Peoples and Land Defenders, for elders, for children and youth, for mental health and climate grief; and an honest look at what AI can do for this work and what it costs the planet. Rather than list every room, I will point you to our Internal Structure & Intent post, which sets out each one and what it is for.

Many Languages, One Rhythm

I come from New York, and my roots run through Caribbean percussion and salsa. If you have ever stood in front of a salsa band, you know the secret. The clave holds the pattern. The congas, the timbales, the bongó, the cowbell, the piano montuno — every one plays something different, and none of them is the song alone. The music only happens when each player listens to the others and keeps time with the whole.

That is the kind of community I am inviting you into. Bienvenidos. Bienvenue. Karibu. Bem-vindos. Willkommen. Benvenuti. Huānyíng. Swāgat hai. Whatever language you greet the morning in, there is a place for you here, and for the people who listen to you. We welcome people of every faith and people of no faith at all; we stay grounded in science, and the goal that unites us is written into our mission — protecting our children’s future and the future of biodiversity.

Built to Be Trusted

You have every reason to be careful about what you lend your name to, so let me be plain about how we are built. Climate Change Community holds a hard annual compensation cap of $235,000 for any owner or staff member, covering all forms of pay, and no exception can be made without a transparent member vote. We are committed to Green AI practices. We do not mine or sell member data, and we do not run advertising.

We are also building toward a Financial Support Program, intended one day to send modest financial support to members and communities hit hardest by climate disasters. I want to be exact: that program is not active yet, membership does not entitle anyone to a payment, and nobody should join expecting one. It is a commitment we are working toward, and we will report publicly on how close we are. Our Financial Aspirations post explains it in full.

And I deliberately call myself the Content Curator, not the owner or the founder, because in a few years I intend to hand ownership of this company to a young girl who is not yet a teenager today — the very generation we keep saying we are fighting for. This is not a celebrity platform, and it is not a doom platform. It is a working community, and it will only be as good as the people who help shape it in these first months.

What It Means to Be a Founding Member

Founding and Senior status is limited to the first 2,350 members. Those who come in first will always be considered senior, and they will help set the culture and direction that everyone who arrives later inherits. It is a permanent recognition and a standing seat in these conversations. It is not a discount, and it is not a financial benefit.

As a Founding Member, you would be invited to:

  • Help shape our Spaces before the community opens to the public — telling us what is missing, what is wrong, and what is working.
  • Propose a Space, host a dialogue, or carry a question from your own readers or listeners into our community.
  • Join small, human-scale conversations with other Founding Members who share your seriousness and your hope.
  • Speak honestly, including when you disagree with me. I would rather be corrected early than applauded and wrong.

I am not asking you to endorse anything blindly. I am asking for your presence, your honesty, and your craft. Even if you simply arrive, look around, and tell me where we can do better, that matters more than you might imagine.

What It Costs

Climate Tribe Social runs on annual subscriptions, and I would rather you hear that from me than find it at a checkout page. There is a free tier, each Collection is priced on its own, and all five Emergency Collections are offered together as one reduced bundle. The Internal Structure & Intent post lists every price beside every Space. If cost is the only thing standing between you and this community, say so when you write to me. That is a conversation I would rather have than lose you over.

How to Answer This Letter

If something here speaks to you, write to me at contact@climatechangecommunity.com. Please include no links in your message; it keeps all of our inboxes safe. Tell me you would like to talk, and we will set up a Zoom dialogue at a time that works for you. Your personal Founding Member invitation will then come from invite@climatetribe.social.

The community opens to the public on December 21, 2026, or on January 2, 2027 if anything delays us. Once our founding membership is established we will hold the first 11-Person Face-to-Face Dialogue Sessions, and I would be honored to have you in one of them. Membership is for adults 18 and older; younger family members are always welcome to take part alongside a subscribing parent or guardian.

A Closing Word

Jane Goodall once said that what you do makes a difference, and that you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. I wrote this letter because I believe the difference you can make is larger than you know. I do not need your answer to be yes. I need it to be honest. If it is yes, the door is open, your seat is waiting, and history will remember who showed up when the hour was late and the stakes were whole.

With my highest regard, my gratitude, and my trust,

Mr. Alvarez | Content Curator, Climate Change Community LLC

Protecting our Children & Biodiversity’s future towards a more sustainable and habitable Earth!

Compiled & Mr. Alvarez’s Thoughts | AI Enhanced.

A note on how this was written: I use artificial intelligence as a tool to enhance my creativity and thinking. The vision, the invitation, and the trust behind every word are my own.