Sweetie, you deserve clean air, water and soil. You deserve to thrive in an environment that supports you.

You are young and have a rich future ahead of you. I am retired and aiming for a high quality of cultural life and comfort with whatever time remains to me. I do not want to see a world whose elders sacrifice your future for their short-term needs and personal gain. So it’s up to you and me to speak out.

I’m doing this work because I see it as the best way to save and improve as many lives as possible. I’m doing it so you, 2050 Ryan, can look at yourself in the mirror. And so you can tell your kids and grandkids someday that you did everything you could.

Eu quero esse mundo melhor para você, onde o povo tem voz, seja lá quem você seja, eu vou fazer se tudo para proporcionar um mundo melhor para você.

I will never give up on you, on humanity, on the future.

What I wish most for you girls is that the care you have shown each other would extend to the big wide world around you.

Dear tomorrow, thank you for letting me ride the wave of wonder that reaches toward you for all generations of all species to come.

We, in our time, still have the chance to change course. We have the knowledge and emergent means, even the profitable technologies, to do so.

Anytime I’m at the crossroads of life, I pray that I, or anyone else in the same position, will keep you in mind, and try to shape a world that’s the best possible for you.

My hopes have always been to live in a brighter and better generation, where women are respected around the world, human rights are respected and last but not least where animals and mother nature is cared for by us individuals.