If we could all slow down, look around and connect: with each other, the Earth, the sky, the plants and rocks and animals, then maybe we can all remember to treat everyone and everything with respect and live in love.

It’s scary, this is the stuff you see in movies about the end of the world.

Despite all the difficulties, we are from a family whose principles are honesty and love for others, and that’s what I want to share with you.

Young people are making a lot of noise and politicians are now listening.

We had a lot in common obviously, and our concern for the planet we live on was one of the many things we bonded over.

I hope you are healthy and happy and that you feel supported by the ecosystem around you because we are all deeply truly interconnected. We depend on the earth to take care of us, and nature needs us to take care of her in turn. We all need each other.

So it’s 2050. If the good people are winning the greater struggle, fossil fuels are a shamefully long chapter of the past, and there has been a full scale awakening to the need for only renewable, clean energy.

I imagine at this point we have dropped our addiction to coal, gas, and oil and that our environment has made a turn for the better with the solar, wind, and other unimagined (at this point) alternative energy choices are in place.

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.