Dear, The Future Generation

In 2020, I writing to you as someone who has grown up as a kid who used to go outside and play in the fall leaves, who used to ride my bike in the summer time to a friends house, who used to build snowmen in the front yard, and who used to love walking to school on nice spring days. I was the type of kid who would rather play baseball in my front yard with my siblings, than stay inside on a phone. As a kid, I took advantage of how beautiful the changes of the seasons can be. Now, writing this letter as an adult, I can honestly say that I wish I could go back. I wish I could go back to the days when I was excited to see the leaves falling and the snow in my front yard. I urge the people of our once beautiful planet to look around them and ask what the world really looks like. Because the answer might not be too pleasant.

When people look at the news, social media, and even in school, there are always questions about what the real problems of society are. Are the problems caused by the multibillionaire corporations, everyday people, factories, the rich, the poor, or everything all at once. Movements take place to try and save the Earth but only long enough to go viral on the next social media app. Everyday people make changes to their daily life to try and save our Earth, but maybe they slowly stop trying because they start to think that they really can’t be helping that much.

People don’t understand what is really happening to our Earth because of how much influence people in power have over their minds. Climate change, air pollution, endangered species, trash polluting our oceans, etc. I could go on forever naming all the terrible things that are happening that people choose to ignore. Some people know the truth but choose not to speak because it could hurt their reputation, or their business and those people influence others to believe that it isn’t happening at all. I Hope that I am writing to a generation that can stand up to the people who are keeping secrets and lying about the damages happening to the Earth. But in reality, I am writing to a population of people that do not exist if we keep going in the direction that we are currently going in right now in 2020.

Global warming and pollution are killing our Earth and people choose to ignore it. Because of their own beliefs and selfish greed, people of today’s world are ignoring the fact that the place we call home is dying. Our world is slowly getting warmer and warmer due to the burning of fossil fuels, the greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere and the deforestation of our trees. Because of this, our ocean surface is getting warmer, glaciers are melting and causing rising sea levels, and air pollution is getting worse by the second. We take for granted what we have now as a population because we are unaware of its consequences.

To whoever may or may not be reading this, I hope that you are able to change the fate of our current generation and the generations to come after us. I hope that you can see what is truly happening to our Earth and save it from our destruction. I hope that you can go outside and be excited to see the four seasons take place before your eyes and not take what we once had for granted. I wanted our future generation to be able to see the leaves change and fall, to be excited to build a snowman in the winter time, to go to the beautiful beach in the summer, and to play sports in the front yard with the nice spring breeze blowing in their hair. But to have that, our story of greed and disbelief of our generation must change so that your can live your life to the fullest. You should be able to live life without having to worry about saving the entire world while you grow up. If our generation has not destroyed the world by 2099, I really hope we have time to fix it enough to give you a chance to live without fear of the Earth, your home, crumbling at your feet. I hope we can save you, so you don’t have to.

Sincerely, a hopeful Earth lover