My hopes have always been to live in a brighter and better generation, where women are respected around the world, human rights are respected and last but not least where animals and mother nature is cared for by us individuals.

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.

How can I look at your bright eyes and light dance and tell you we are facing a war?

Right now I want to be hopeful. Right now I want to think that we took action to ensure this beautiful future for you.

If there is one thing that I taught you it is to be honest in your decisions as they pertain to yourselves and the earth in which you live.

But when you encounter that resistance–and you will, regularly–know that you must respond just how we have had to these past 50 years. With love, and sternness, and most of all, courage. Because that is what the resistance fears the most. We who came before you promise that we will do the same while we wait for you. Know that you will never be alone.

I hope you are healthy and happy and that you feel supported by the ecosystem around you because we are all deeply truly interconnected. We depend on the earth to take care of us, and nature needs us to take care of her in turn. We all need each other.

It’s not enough to just recycle. I will sign petitions and call my local representatives. I will also engage in conversations about climate change – even with people with whom I don’t see eye-to-eye.

Espero de verdade saber contribuir para legá-la inteira para você, e que todos saibamos fazer isso em conjunto também.

Last week I took you to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Here’s the biggest secret: I KNOW it will have. We may not realize how, but we have changed the world.