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Dear Future generations.
I think I speak for the rest of us when I say
Sorry.
Sorry, we left you with our mess of a planet. Sorry that we were too caught up in our own doings to do something
Sorry, we listened to people who made excuses
to do nothing I
Hope you forgive us. We just didn't realize how special the Earth was like a marriage gone wrong
We didn't know what we had until it was
gone..
For example, I'm guessing you [probably] know it as the Amazon desert, right?
Well believe it or not it was once called the Amazon rainforest and there were billions of trees there. All of them gorgeous and oh..
You don't know much about trees. Do you?
Well, let me tell you trees are amazing. I mean we literally breathe the air
They are creating they clean up our pollution or carbon, they store and purify water give us
Medicine that cures our diseases food that feeds us which is why I'm so sorry
To tell you that we burn them down
Cut them down with brutal machines horrific at a rate of [Forty] Football Fields every minute
That's 50% of all the trees in the world gone in the last hundred years why?
For this.
And that wouldn't make me so sad if it weren't so many pictures of leaves on it
You know when I was a child I read how the native Americans had such
Consideration for the planet that they felt responsible for how they left the land for the next seven generations
Which brings me great sorrow because most of us today don't even care about tomorrow?
So I'm sorry
I'm sorry that we put profit above people greet above need the rule of gold above the [Golden] [Rule]
I'm sorry we use nature as a credit card with no spending limit over
Drafting animals to extinction stealing your chance to ever see their uniqueness or become friends with them
Sorry, we poison the ocean so much that you can't even swim in them
But most of all I'm sorry [about] our mindset cuz we had the nerve to cause this destruction
progress
Hey Fox news if you don't think climate change is a threat. [I] dare you to interview the thousands of homeless people in Bangladesh
[see] wow while you were in your pit house nestle their homes were literally washed away
but need their feet due to rising sea levels and
Sarah Palin, you said that you love the smell of fossil fuels
Well, I urge you to talk to the kids of beijing who are forced to wear pollution. Masks just to go to school
So you can ignore this but the thing about truth is it can be denied
Not avoided
I'm sorry future generations. I'm sorry that our footprint became a sinkhole and not a garden
I'm sorry that we paid so much attention to isis and very little to how fast the [ice] is melting in the arctic
I'm sorry, we doomed you and I'm sorry we couldn't find another planet [and] time to move [to] [I] am
You know what cut the beat?
I'm not sorry
This future I do not accept it because an error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it
We can redirect this how let me suggest that if a farmer sees a tree that is unhealthy
And they don't look at the branches to diagnose it they look at the root so like that farmer
We must look at the root and not to the branches of government and not to the politicians run by corporations
we are the root that we are the
Foundation this generation it is up to us to take care [of] this planet. [it] is our only home
we must globally warm our hearts and change the climate of our souls and
Realize that we are not apart from Nature
We are a part of nature and to betray nature is to betray us the save nature is to save us
Because whatever you're fighting for racism or poverty feminism gay rights or any type of equality it won't matter in the least
Because if we don't all work together to save the environment
We will be equally
extinct
so
Hey guys for the past several weeks
I've been here in Africa the heart of Africa witnessing the horrific destruction of the rainforests which inspired me to write this piece
Wire for is being destroyed that such an enormous rate
for this
Today, we live in a world where destroying trees?
Makes you money, so what can we normal people do about it?
One way to directly fight the destruction is to stand for trees by standing for trees
Not only can you save the lives of trees help forest communities and protect the rights of animals to live in their homes?
But you will also balance the amount of pollution that you yourself give off your everyday activities
Making you a part of the solution and not the problem
This is the option that I chose but whatever way that you choose to stand for trees do it because a wise man once said
When the rivers are all dried up and the trees have been cut down
Man will then realize that he will not be able to eat
Money.
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