I pray that you are having a happy life and that you have contributed each year of your life into helping to make our planet healthy, cleaner, thriving and greener- a better place for all people and animals to live.

People are an amazing race and, if we have the will, I believe we have the ingenuity and resources to fix the harm we’ve done.

I hope you got your dream job of using your business degree to reduce co2 emissions and promote sustainable energy.

I hope that my work helping to make your schools more sustainable will be something you carry on as you grow older.

So it’s 2050. If the good people are winning the greater struggle, fossil fuels are a shamefully long chapter of the past, and there has been a full scale awakening to the need for only renewable, clean energy.

To think that my choices of sustainable commuting, eating a plant based diet, and working on our City’s zero waste program likely pale in comparison to the impact of not having a baby is nothing short of devastating.  Does it make me a bad environmentalist to honor my maternal instincts?

I can now see that the solutions are there, that a transition of the magnitude that is needed, is possible.

I promise to do my part. I promise to be the change I want to see in the world, and I hope that you, reader, will do the same.

I’m sad and angry that collectively more has not been done to this date. And that still with such dire warnings, obvious impacts, those in power are acting far too slowly.

I hope that people are still enjoying the wonders that nature has to offer.