I’m not fooling! Chemistry needs us. Maybe now more than ever.

It takes a certain amount of humor, courage, or both to be the ACS immediate past president and write my final C&EN Comment for April Fools' Day. Can you trust what I am saying? Am I providing accurate data? Making a cringeworthy chemistry joke ? Or am I just expecting some sort of a reaction? Or a HeHe? April Fools' Day or not, I'm not fooling around when I say—as I have been since campaigning for ACS president—that now more than ever, society needs the solutions that chemists create. And creating and rolling out those solutions needs all of us! So without being CuTe, let me share some sobering but hopeful data and then some new ways all of us can get involved. All it takes is trust—in science and scientists. As scientists, we are passionate about pushing forward to new frontiers and creating useful, safe, and sustainable innovations to