As I write this, I consider giving up as it sometimes seems that all is lost. But then I think of you.

Please don’t wait to see the adverse effects instead adopt that river, stream, lake or ocean to make the world a better place.

Maybe you heard about bats? Bats, the carriers of this disease that spread among us like wild fire. I love bats. When I was your age today, sitting in the evening on the back terrace of your grandparent’s home in Ibiza, hundreds of bats would play, dance and sing among the trees.

Hope we get to have that snowball fight I always dreamed we’d have.

I look at my baby niece today. The newest member of our family, just 3 days old. What will be left for her and her grandchildren?

I’m doing this work because I see it as the best way to save and improve as many lives as possible. I’m doing it so you, 2050 Ryan, can look at yourself in the mirror. And so you can tell your kids and grandkids someday that you did everything you could.