Com essas ideias simples e força de vontade, podemos tornar um mundo, um lugar melhor para se viver, com menos mortes, menos lixo, transforma-lo em um mundo diferente.

I don’t know your name
or even if you’re alive,
but I’m doing all I can
to make sure you survive.

I’m your great- great grandmother
who lived a century ago
in a world far different
from the one you must know.

Last year most of the world’s reefs turned white at some point, but because it was underwater you and your friends didn’t see.

Tonight at bedtime, you asked, seemingly out of nowhere, “why are the glaciers disappearing?”

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.

Love, help and build a future in unison that benefits and protects the whole world.

In writing to you, I realize that I don’t want you to be hard on yourself if you choose to not make this your cause. But it is mine, so I hope that you hold me accountable to some of what I wrote here.

I haven’t met you yet, but I already know you deserve a better tomorrow.

My hope is for all who live in your time to still know the joy of swimming in the ocean, walking through the woods, and hiking in the mountains.

In the coming months, we plan to complete a full assessment of our environmental impact online. We hope to discover our biggest areas of resource consumption, learn what we can do better, and create an action plan to improve over the next year.

Sweetie, you deserve clean air, water and soil. You deserve to thrive in an environment that supports you.

I love you my son. You are waking up now. Hopefully tomorrow, more of us will, too.