I promised myself after watching Leonardo Di Caprio’s movie Before the Flood I will make an effort to not to sit by and talk about climate change, but to make efforts to rescue the globe from destruction and greed. I hope I take my passion from young age to an old man when I read this back.
To my great-great grandchildren,
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.
To my children – Chase, Maya and Harlan
I hope that we manage to change the system really soon, while there is still time. So that you are not left with the mess, and trying to fix something that you didn’t cause. I hope we figured out a way to be kind, and caring for others who will suffer more than us. A way to let go of the greed and look at ways we can help others rather than take from them.
Dear Tomorrow,
I promise to ditch all the natural gas and go all electric with my home!
Dear Tomorrow,
I promise composting in my house and getting an EV for my first car.
My dear daughters,
I will use my voice to help bring awareness about climate change.
Dear Seamus and Tuva,
So it’s 2050. If the good people are winning the greater struggle, fossil fuels are a shamefully long chapter of the past, and there has been a full scale awakening to the need for only renewable, clean energy.
Dear Future Me: Only open after March 4th, 2050
I don’t regret my past ventures, nor do I believe I will regret my future ventures, but I’ve learned that I’ve needed to manifest these experiences into actions of sustainable development and conservation and protection of our environment.
Dear Evan,
We want your future family to enjoy the same beautiful places we enjoyed.
Dear World,
I vow that I will try to make a difference every day, so that you may enjoy the world as I have.
Pick up your trash wherever you go!
My Mini & Lou,
Since I first sat down with these words, a pandemic has erupted. Racial violence is reaching a fever pitch and protests are raging across the nation. It feels like the planet is succumbing to entropy, slipping further into chaos. But I write to you from a time of shifting tides.
To My Future Self,
This lead me to my final project, which focused on reforming the education system to incorporate sustainability classes into the current curriculum.
