We pledged in 2019 to reduce our carbon emissions to zero by 2030 (www.familyclimateemergency.net) and to regenerate biodiversity. We also pledged to campaign to reduce systemic emissions. We started with an average footprint of 3.5 planets each! After a year of trying this did not change. Only 9 years to go.
Dear Tomorrow,
I promise to ride a bike and take a smart train.
Dear Tomorrow,
I’ll buy only food that I plan to eat before it spoils.
Dear Nova and Remi,
I wish for you both that another kind of life has been discovered, one of peace, moderation and concern for all life.
Dear Future Self,
More than getting through a global pandemic that has already taken hundreds of thousands of lives around the world, our true feat is even larger: to secure our long-term health and the health of the ecosystems upon which we depend for life. To do that, we have to cut our emissions in half in the next ten years, and continue to reduce it beyond that. And to succeed in that, we need to fundamentally shift the way we do EVERYTHING.
Dear Potential Future Kiddo,
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?
To my children,
I hope that the fervor that is building continues to build and spread and that the world has made progress to minimize the effects of our past actions.
Dear Spike, Loulou and Yoshua,
I’m going to start a campaign to try to convince everybody in the Netherlands to not eat meat one day a week.
To my brother’s children,
We wondered about how we might be able to eliminate plastics from our day to day routines, and recycled literally everything. We were amazing, you should have seen us. Now and again though, we wondered if these were the right questions.
Dear Kiya,
Fighting for a system that rewards care for people and planet over profit.
Dear future generations,
Past generations took all the trees, polluted all the water, fished all the fish, and hunted all the animals so that there’s almost nothing nice left.
Dear Tomorrow,
Don’t use plastic straws!
Dear Eleanor,
You are so small. So innocent. So beautiful. For you and for everyone else, I will try harder.
