We can learn a lot about how to treat others from stories that have been passed from generation to generation.

Eu quero esse mundo melhor para você, onde o povo tem voz, seja lá quem você seja, eu vou fazer se tudo para proporcionar um mundo melhor para você.

I hope, as your father, I’ve done enough to instill within you how science is a wonderful adventure.

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.

I am doing this to protect you, the food, water, air and biodiversity of a country that I love.

I am a better person because of you, and I want the world to be a better place for you.

You are young and have a rich future ahead of you. I am retired and aiming for a high quality of cultural life and comfort with whatever time remains to me. I do not want to see a world whose elders sacrifice your future for their short-term needs and personal gain. So it’s up to you and me to speak out.

Que vocês possam contar para seus filhos e netos que minha geração tomou consciência de sua responsabilidade e assumiu sua condição de natureza e a ela se reintegrou, com inteligência, interação respeitosa e solidariedade.

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.

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – The Lorax

I promise that I will plant more trees in places where there are none.