Sent on
March 7, 2018
by
Anonymous
Send Your Own Message

To future generations,

I am currently working towards a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies right now to help preserve the earth for you. My hope is that by the time you’re my age, climate change has begun its reversal and sustainable energy has become more prevalent than fossil fuels. After learning about climate change, ocean acidification, air and water pollution, fresh water shortage, and unsustainable agricultural practices, I felt it was my responsibility to contribute to the reversal of these harmful environmental impacts because they will directly and negatively affect you. I promise to do my part in working towards a sustainable future for you by:

  • Living consciously of my actions and how they will impact you.
  • Reducing my waste and to recycle and compost everything in my ability.
  • Inspiring others around me and businesses to adopt more sustainable practices.
  • Doing my best in promoting environmentally friendly businesses and products.
  • Voting for candidates that will work towards protecting the environment.
Share on:
 
Send Your Own Message

More Messages to the Future

 

Dear Samuel, Willa, and Ben,

To the core of my being, and only through the power of community, I will honor the voices of the youth who are pleading, “Don’t burn my future.” Samuel, Willa, and Ben, your little voices I know, will join that chorus soon enough.
 

I promise to stop eating junk food.
 

To older Rochelle,

You should’ve reduced your carbon footprint, should be using some source of renewable energy and be a vegetarian by now.
 

Dear Tomorrow,

I promise I will encourage everyone to adopt a plant-based diet. Good for our health, the animals and the planet.
 

Dear Gabriel,

When the worst consequences of climate change still feel far away today, or the barriers to acting on climate change seem steep today, I do not think about today. I think about you, and your world when you are my age.
 

Dear Alex and Vivian,

This is my most important work.
 

To our sweet grandson Caleb,

We want a safe and beautiful world for you, little Caleb, and for your children and grandchildren. We promise to do our part.
 

Dear Matthew, Sam, and Sophie,

There is a promise in the Bible: ‘I shall restore the years that the locusts have eaten’ and that points to a promise of complete healing and restoration. But until that comes I intend to do my best to ‘save the planet’ in whatever way I can, and I encourage you to do the same.
 

Dear Annie and Eric,

I hope that this life of good things is not just yours to enjoy, but that you also have decided to fight for others to have this life, too.
 

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 Nephews,

I want you to see those corn fields in the north, the beautiful beaches down in Florida, and the stars in the woods at night.
 

Dear Future Self,

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.
View All Messages

Send Your Own Message