Dear Future Generations: Sorry

Dear Future generations. I think I speak for the rest of us when I say Sorry. Sorry, we left you with our mess of a planet. Sorry that we were too caught up in our own doings to do something Sorry, we listened to people who made excuses to do nothing I Hope you forgive us. We just didn't realize how special the Earth was like a marriage gone wrong We didn't know what we had until it was gone.. For example, I'm guessing you [probably] know it as the Amazon desert, right? Well believe it or not it was once called the Amazon rainforest and there were billions of trees there. All of them gorgeous and oh.. You don't know much about trees. Do you? Well, let me tell you trees are amazing. I mean we literally breathe the air They are creating they clean up our pollution or carbon, they store and purify water give us Medicine that cures our diseases food that feeds us which is why I'm so sorry To tell you that we burn them down Cut them down with brutal machines horrific at a rate of [Forty] Football Fields every minute That's 50% of all the trees in the world gone in the last hundred years why? For this. And that wouldn't make me so sad if it weren't so many pictures of leaves on it You know when I was a child I read how the native Americans had such Consideration for the planet that they felt responsible for how they left the land for the next seven generations Which brings me great sorrow because most of us today don't even care about tomorrow? So I'm sorry I'm sorry that we put profit above people greet above need the rule of gold above the [Golden] [Rule] I'm sorry we use nature as a credit card with no spending limit over Drafting animals to extinction stealing your chance to ever see their uniqueness or become friends with them Sorry, we poison the ocean so much that you can't even swim in them But most of all I'm sorry [about] our mindset cuz we had the nerve to cause this destruction progress Hey Fox news if you don't think climate change is a threat. [I] dare you to interview the thousands of homeless people in Bangladesh [see] wow while you were in your pit house nestle their homes were literally washed away but need their feet due to rising sea levels and Sarah Palin, you said that you love the smell of fossil fuels Well, I urge you to talk to the kids of beijing who are forced to wear pollution. Masks just to go to school So you can ignore this but the thing about truth is it can be denied Not avoided I'm sorry future generations. I'm sorry that our footprint became a sinkhole and not a garden I'm sorry that we paid so much attention to isis and very little to how fast the [ice] is melting in the arctic I'm sorry, we doomed you and I'm sorry we couldn't find another planet [and] time to move [to] [I] am You know what cut the beat? I'm not sorry This future I do not accept it because an error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it We can redirect this how let me suggest that if a farmer sees a tree that is unhealthy And they don't look at the branches to diagnose it they look at the root so like that farmer We must look at the root and not to the branches of government and not to the politicians run by corporations we are the root that we are the Foundation this generation it is up to us to take care [of] this planet. [it] is our only home we must globally warm our hearts and change the climate of our souls and Realize that we are not apart from Nature We are a part of nature and to betray nature is to betray us the save nature is to save us Because whatever you're fighting for racism or poverty feminism gay rights or any type of equality it won't matter in the least Because if we don't all work together to save the environment We will be equally extinct so Hey guys for the past several weeks I've been here in Africa the heart of Africa witnessing the horrific destruction of the rainforests which inspired me to write this piece Wire for is being destroyed that such an enormous rate for this Today, we live in a world where destroying trees? Makes you money, so what can we normal people do about it? One way to directly fight the destruction is to stand for trees by standing for trees Not only can you save the lives of trees help forest communities and protect the rights of animals to live in their homes? But you will also balance the amount of pollution that you yourself give off your everyday activities Making you a part of the solution and not the problem This is the option that I chose but whatever way that you choose to stand for trees do it because a wise man once said When the rivers are all dried up and the trees have been cut down Man will then realize that he will not be able to eat Money.

Channel: Prince Ea

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Id: eRLJscAlk1M

Length: 6min 2sec (362 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 20 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/RogerDFox]

So poignant

[u/GrumpySquirrel2016]

Our economic system needs to change. Capitalism touts continuous growth on a planet of finite resources. Things that grow continuously in nature: cancer. That one kills the host too.