I promise that I shall continue to do all that is within my capabilities to leave you a world where there is fairness and justice.
You entered a troubled world in 2020. It was a world for which I did my utmost in terms of the climate crisis that engulfed the planet then.
I promise that I shall continue to do all that is within my capabilities to leave you a world where there is fairness and justice. Jesus is our Guide and I pray that you will feel able to follow him in the way you live your life to bring others to know him too and to work to his priorities.
With love – always
Pops x
To my grandchildren,
Ahora vivo en la ciudad de México y cuando debe de llover no llueve… cuando hace calor de verdad hace calor.
Dear grand nieces and nephews,
I wish you this security knowing we changed because we love you.
Dear Students,
I imagine at this point we have dropped our addiction to coal, gas, and oil and that our environment has made a turn for the better with the solar, wind, and other unimagined (at this point) alternative energy choices are in place.
Dear Maya,
Maya, my love, I promise to be courageous. I promise that when I face a decision, I will think of how it will impact you and your future. I promise that I’ll also step outside my individual decisions and add my weight to the forces that shift culture and systems.
Dear Future Grandchild,
We can learn a lot about how to treat others from stories that have been passed from generation to generation.
Dear Future Self,
More than getting through a global pandemic that has already taken hundreds of thousands of lives around the world, our true feat is even larger: to secure our long-term health and the health of the ecosystems upon which we depend for life. To do that, we have to cut our emissions in half in the next ten years, and continue to reduce it beyond that. And to succeed in that, we need to fundamentally shift the way we do EVERYTHING.
To my child,
For the pale blue dot we live on, a precious beauty, I try to help.
Dear Tomorrow,
I promise to sign up for 100% renewable energy.
To older Rochelle,
You should’ve reduced your carbon footprint, should be using some source of renewable energy and be a vegetarian by now.
Dear friend,
I will fight for this cause and I will never ever give up because we, the youngsters, are the hope.
To my brother’s children,
We wondered about how we might be able to eliminate plastics from our day to day routines, and recycled literally everything. We were amazing, you should have seen us. Now and again though, we wondered if these were the right questions.
Queridos filhos Heloísa e Henzo,
Tenho muito orgulho da minha função (agente de fiscalização ambiental do Acre) pois é através dela que posso dar um pouco do meu suor, para que no futuro ambos possam ter um lugar melhor para viver.
