Dear grandchildren,

I am glad to write this letter to you and wish you encounter the environment in great condition. As I am writing in the year 2020, the environmental condition is not so great. We are living under stress and bad health condition because of the COVID19. A virus that infects the respiratory system and vital, especially for the elderly. Due to global warming, disease season is longer and the virus ‘s life is longer as a result, people are suffering more. I hope this will end soon.

Global warming has gotten worse and many changes have affected ice in the arctic and poles. Continental ice is melting and sea level is rising. People are in danger and will need to move to a safer place. The effort is going now to save the environment, especially that the harm is being noticed. Fires, floods, volcanic eruptions, and temperature increase, diseases, and longer disease season have been noticed increasing.

Many students are studying the environment trying to make a change. If they can’t, I hope you can make the change.

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Dear Alanna and Valeria,

I promise you to keep trying, to keep educating, to keep pushing our elected officials to act and protect your health now and in the future.

To My Future Child(ren),

The fact that you are reading this means that you would know the answer to a question that has kept me up at night more often than I would like to admit: Did I make you proud?

Dear Gabriel,

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.

dear tomorrow,

I hope that the state of the environment becomes a part of everyday discourse.

I promise to plant trees and to turn off the lights.

Dear Tomorrow,

I promise to use a reusable water bottle.

To my future Niece,

While I will work my hardest to create any positive change I can, you must continue this quest. You cannot give up hope, and you must always remember that the beauty on this Earth is worth saving.

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 Llewyn, beloved grandson …

I can only say that I devoted myself to doing as much as I could to make it better, to provide for a just transition, and to fight those forces that continued to exploit the Eaarth with extractive methods, methods that always also included oppressing some people–because those doing the oppression believed that they were better and deserved more.

Dear X—, Dear A—,

As with our struggles to eliminate police brutality, as with hate crimes, so it is with climate change – there are actually a lot of people out there who care.

to my dearest children,

Our future is being made now, and I promise to do everything in my power to make yours safe.

To my wide-eyed warrioresses,

Since my two daughters emerged into this world, all of my tomorrows have become more dear.

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