MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — As the Trump administration moves to reverse green energy policies, instead promoting more fossil fuel production, a new theatrical production touring the nation is pushing back.
The inspiring new musical was just in Miami Beach over the weekend, using art and the stage to wake up a global audience to take action and protect our planet.
The youth of a small town rising up, demanding the adults protect the town’s forest from greedy developers is the premise behind “Dear Everything,” a brand new musical touring the country that puts climate change at center stage.
The musical was created by Obie and Tony Award-winning playwright Eve Ensler, who now goes by the name of V.
Her latest work is perhaps the most urgent she’s ever penned.
“It’s like we’re building this huge, huge chorus around America of young people who are singing for their lives, singing for the Earth,” said V. “I worked on many, many issues, but the climate is the most pressing issue because if we don’t have an earth to live on, we’re not able to live here anymore. All the other issues really don’t quite matter.”
The musical was just in Miami Beach at the North Beach Bandshell after premiering in Atlanta.
It comes at a time when climate science and green energy policies are under attack despite the ominous warnings we see all around us. Those warnings include more powerful hurricanes, more intense floods, devastating wildfires, coral reefs disappearing and extreme heat and drought exacerbated by climate change.
“When you hear the most powerful man in the world say that climate change is a hoax, and in your body and being, the evidence everywhere that we are headed for a disaster on all proportions is, it’s crazy making,” said V.
The Trump administration has been scaling back on renewable energy efforts and doubling down on fossil fuels, as Trump underscored in front of world leaders at last week’s United Nations general assembly.
But the science says otherwise.
Brian Soden is a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School, specializing in the climate feedback processes and the response of extreme weather events to global warming.
“Climate change is absolutely not a hoax. It is 100% real,” said Soden. “There’s so many tangible signs that the climate is changing. You can see it here in South Florida with the rising sea levels. You can go to colder climates, you can see it in declining snow coverage. Lakes and streams that would freeze over in the past no longer freeze over.”
In fact, the overwhelming majority of the scientific community strongly pushes back on Trump’s climate change claims, calling his statements false and misleading.
The fact is that solar and wind energy are now “almost always” the least expensive and the fastest options for new electricity generation, according to a UN report from July.
“Wind is a great source of energy. Solar, sunlight is a great source of energy,” said Soden. “They’re cheaper. It costs about half as much to build renewable energy, like solar, wind, than it does to build a new coal plant.”
What’s more, science says the clock is ticking to dramatically reduce the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions this decade to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, including more days of extreme and triple-digit heat indices.
“We’ll see a half a year of July and August temperatures in South Florida. You’ll see sea level rise,” said Soden. “We’re going to see extreme, more extreme flood events, the things like the flooded Fort Lauderdale Airport a couple of years ago.”
It’s those loud alarms that ‘Dear Everything’ is ringing, using art to communicate not just the gravity of what the planet is facing, but through the collective theatrical experience, move the soul to climate action.
“It’s to wake people up,” said V. “It’s to say, ‘What can we do to be more responsible citizens on this earth to protect our mother who gives us everything?’ As people, we have the power. We have the power to change things. We have the power to rise up.”
The tour is also leaving an impact on every community it visits. With the money the production has already raised, the tour can give away most of the tickets in each city to people who normally can’t afford the theater.
Not just that, the production is also donating $20,000 in each city earmarked for local climate change groups.
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