Dear Future Generation: Sorry

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 did not 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 

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 about the kids of Bejing 

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