If you’re one of the 70 percent of us in the U.S. whose communities have experienced a climate disaster or extreme weather in the past year, you already know that climate change is personal.

We asked members of The Wilderness Society community to tell us some of the ways climate change impacts are affecting their lives. Many responded and shared disheartening stories by video and text message, about families in danger and lives uprooted. But they also shared how these experiences motivated them to take action.

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Recent data show that parts of the Arctic, already warming much faster than the rest of the world, are warming even faster than scientists thought. That’s all the more reason to take strong action on climate change, including countering drilling threats in places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Western Arctic, which would lead to massive climate pollution and make the problem even worse.

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The proposed Ambler road would cut through 211 miles of northwestern Alaska, threatening caribou that are important to Alaska Native communities. Tell the Biden administration: The Ambler mining road is a threat to communities and wildlife!