What will the future generations think about us, their ancestors, in last years of this century and early in the next? Will they think of us as we think of our slave owning ancestors? Will they be ashamed? Will they criticize us for the damage we had done to the climate and the ecosystems?

            Will they have had to change their living conditions so much that many areas of the world became completely uninhabitable? Wealthy people will be able to adapt to the increased temperatures, droughts, flooding, dangerous weather patterns, and rising seas. How will the rest of the people who do not have the money to compensate for the changes survive?

            Will those generations to come want to know why so many people denied what was happening for short term greed and power? Will we all be cursed by them for not making those in power stop the disaster they are living in a hundred years from how? Will the generations to come understand we knew what disasters they would have to contend with and didn’t care? The legacy of those in power today who do not do all they can to stop climate change will be worse than slave traders of the past.

            Send this letter to your elected officials and polluters. Maybe it will move them because every day is critical and because every day we waste makes life for coming generations worse.