Que se multipliquem estes novos heróis da Terra!

It seems silly to saddle yourself with guilt for something that hasn’t happened yet. I don’t want to do that. As of today, I don’t really feel guilty. I guess I just want to make sure I keep doing more, so that when you read this, and ask what I’ve done since then, I can still feel good about my efforts.

I can feel the change happening — many people are working to transform the world.

When the worst consequences of climate change still feel far away today, or the barriers to acting on climate change seem steep today, I do not think about today. I think about you, and your world when you are my age.

This lead me to my final project, which focused on reforming the education system to incorporate sustainability classes into the current curriculum.

I will do all that I can, and hope my fellow inhabitants join my pursuit, to nurture this planet.

There is a promise in the Bible: ‘I shall restore the years that the locusts have eaten’ and that points to a promise of complete healing and restoration. But until that comes I intend to do my best to ‘save the planet’ in whatever way I can, and I encourage you to do the same.

I don’t wish to go backwards, but I do wish we would slow down and design our brave new world with more care.

I asked you, the future , to help us as well, to preserve our only planet that can give us life, that can let us watch anime, go to the beach, smell flowers, run through the meadow, listen to our songs, be in a concert, and let us live.

We can learn a lot about how to treat others from stories that have been passed from generation to generation.