Dear Future Tate Cook,

We need air, we need food, and we need life. We deserve every one of those, and we take it away from ourselves. Covid-19 is a message, or an effort, keeping us indoors so we don’t go out and destroy the earth. To this day I am 12, almost 13, it’s March 8, the week our school got shut down for this virus. Life isn’t the same, and it never will be. What my age is when I receive this I don’t know, but I do know that things will be different. If I do receive this and my dumb self didn’t do anything to get me killed, then I have one question, how was my life in your eyes? Was it a smooth path? Was it hard? And most of all, what is the status of the ones I love.?

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Dear future me,

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.

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 Future,

We need to work to save our beautiful home.

Dear my future family,

I will promise to help climate change as much as I can.

Dear Tomorrow,

The only way to survive it, even if you don’t feel like you’re winning, is to keep your hands on the rope.

Dear Tomorrow,

I promise to stop using a plastic straw.

I promise to plant more flowers.

Dear Tomorrow,

This is just the beginning. It’s the accrual of little seeds of change that will lead to the tree of revolution.

Dear Granddaughter Rosalia,

This is my heritage for you my beautiful cacheticos de melon.

Dear Gabriel,

One day ten or twenty years from now, when you look back from the future, you will be able to clearly see the entire path.

Dear fantastic,

We as the human race are smarter than this struggle at hand and need to rise above large corporate interests and confusion on this topic.

Dear Ezmae,

As I write this, I consider giving up as it sometimes seems that all is lost. But then I think of you.

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