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 going wrong We didn't know what we had until it was gone For example I'm guessing you probably know what is the Amazon Desert, right? Well believe it or not It was once called once called the Amazon Rain Forest And there were billions of trees there And all of them gorgeous and just um.. Oh, you don't know much about trees, do you? Well let me tell you that trees are amazing And I mean, we literally breath the air They are creating, and they clean up our pollution Our carbon, they store and purify water, Give us medicine that cures ours diseases, food that feeds us Which is why I am so sorry, to tell you that We burned them down Cut them down with brutal machines, horrific At a rate of 40 football fields every minute That's 50% of all the trees in the world all gone In the last 100 years Why? For this. MONEY. And that wouldn't make me so sad If there 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 7 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 Greed over need, the rule of gold above the golden rule I'm sorry we used 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 oceans so much that you can't even swim in them But most of all, i'm sorry about our mindset 'cause we had the nerve to call 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, while you was in your penthouse nestled Their homes were literally washed away Beneath their feet due to the rising sea levels And Sara 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 See, you can ignore this, but the thing about truth is It can be denied, not avoided So I'm sorry future generation I'm sorry that our footprints became a sinkhole and not a garden I'm sorry that we paid so much attention to ISIS And very little how fast the ice is melting in the arctic I'm sorry we doomed you And I'm sorry we didn't find another planet in time to move to I am s... 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 They don't look at the branches to diagnosis it They look at the root, so like that farmer We must look at the root And not to the branches of the government Not to the politicians run by corporations We are the root, 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 To save nature, is to save us Because whatever you're fighting for: Racism, 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
