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-Hi. My name is Joshua Newman.
I live in Ravenna
with my wife and our four kids.
I've been a lifeguard,
a preschool teacher,
and for the last 13 years,
an engineer and union member
of IFPTE 2001 at Boeing.
I've coached my sons' baseball teams,
served on the board of my synagogue,
and I've been the president of both
the Maple Leaf Community Council
and Seattle Subway.
I'm a policy wonk,
and I dig deep into the data,
but when we get stuck fighting
over this rule or that street,
we aren't talking
about the big picture.
We aren't talking about
the fear and uncertainty
we feel for the future.
Our parents and grandparents
were confident that our lives
would be better than theirs.
How many of us feel that way
for our children and grandchildren?
It's not clear what will become
of the city we love
or if our children
will have a place here.
Seattle has grown
by over 167,000 people
in the last 20 years.
Climate change is already here.
If Seattle is to thrive
in our uncertain future,
we need leadership who can turn
that uncertainty into opportunity.
We can do this by staying true
to our progressive values
and letting some pieces
of Seattle evolve.
Our future needs to be
different from the past
in three critical ways.
First, cars are not our future,
and we need to make it easy
for most people to get around
without them.
Second, we have to build
more homes of more shapes
and more sizes
so people can find a home
to fit their needs,
and so our most vulnerable neighbors
don't end up on the streets.
And third, we need to build
enough renewable energy
in the next 10 years
to match and replace
all of our fossil fuel needs.
We can do this together.
If we are brave,
we can manage these challenges
and plan for the future.
We can give our children and grandchildren
lives that will be better than our own.