I’m a Climate Activist Facing Criminal Charges for Protesting Private Jets at Hanscom Field

I decided to risk arrest at Hanscom Field because I don’t have a retirement plan. Thousands of climate scientists predict that “untold suffering” will wreak havoc on the planet if fossil fuel expansion, among other actions worldwide, does not come to a screeching halt. In fact, in many ways, the havoc is already here. Even the privileged people whose homes have yet to be lost to flames, floods, or brutal bombings, those who have not yet been reached by the ripple effects of crop failures, or whose organs have not yet failed during a heat wave still cannot lay claim to a livable future. A lot of the concerns that white, middle-class climate activists like myself have about our future are already the current reality for a majority of the world’s population. I don’t have a retirement plan because I wonder whether someday I will join the legions of people whose everyday survival is already under threat as a consequence of the…