As I sit here and write to you, I’d like to share with you something more horrifying than a few boos – our current home, Earth.

I vow that I will try to make a difference every day, so that you may enjoy the world as I have.

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.

I hope that when we look back on these years,  you’ll see that humanity can be good. That we joined together and fixed it because of we don’t, who will?

I will stand on the streets, in the courts, and in the schools to encourage awareness and empathy for the earth.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you your actions don’t matter. Every single thing you do matters. You matter.

I pray that you are having a happy life and that you have contributed each year of your life into helping to make our planet healthy, cleaner, thriving and greener- a better place for all people and animals to live.

Be fearless – do not be afraid to talk to each other and do not be afraid to fail.

What I wish most for you girls is that the care you have shown each other would extend to the big wide world around you.

Quero que você beba água pura, coma alimentos sem agrotóxicos e que sua casinha branca com varanda, seja voltada para o leste, onde o sol vai nascer.