SPOKEN WORD- A Letter To The Past, Present and Future Generations

princessvanessa (52)in #steemstem • 6 years ago

SAVE THE EARTH
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whatever you're fighting for:
Racism, Poverty, Feminism, Gay Rights,
or any type of Equality.
It won't matter in the least,
because if we don't all work together to save the environment,
we will be equally extinct.
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For example The Forest,
and there were billions of trees there,
and all of them gorgeous and just um..
I forgot Only the Past Generation Enjoyed it and the Future Generations May not get to see it because the present generation
we are too caught up in our own doings to do something.
we listened to people who made excuses,
to do nothing.
we just didn't realize how special the earth was,
like a marriage going wrong,
we didn't know what we had until it was gone

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Well let me tell you that trees are amazing,
and I mean, we literally breath the air
they are creating, and they clean up our pollution,
our carbon, they store and purify water,
give us medicine that cures ours diseases, food that feeds us.
Which is why I am so sorry, to tell you that,
we burned them down.
Cut them down with brutal machines, horrific,
at a rate of 40 football fields every minute,
that's 50% of all the trees in the world all gone
in the last 100 years.
Why? For this.(MONEY)

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And that wouldn't make me so sad,
if there weren't so many pictures of leaves on it
The Past Generation cared but the Present Generation don't care for the planet and don't feel responsible for how they left the land for the next 7 generations.
Which brings me great sorrow, because most of us today,
don't even care about tomorrow.
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we put profit above people,
greed over need, the rule of gold above the golden rule.
we used nature as a credit card with no spending limit.
Over drafting animals to extinction,
stealing your chance to ever see their uniqueness,
or become friends with them.
Sorry we poison the oceans so much that you can't even swim in
We have all ignored this, but the thing about truth is,
it can be denied, not avoided.
so I'm sorry future generation,
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You know what, I'm not sorry.
This future I do not accept it,
because an error does not become a mistake,
until you refuse to correct it.
We can redirect this, how?
Let me suggest that if a farmer sees a tree that is unhealthy,
they don't look at the branches to diagnosis it,
they look at the root, so like that farmer,
we must look at the root,
and not to the branches of the government,
not to the politicians run by corporations.
We are the root, we are the foundation, this generation,
it is up to us to take care of this planet.
It is our only home, we must globally warm our hearts
and change the climate of our souls
and realize that we are not apart from nature,
we are a part of nature.
And to betray nature is to betray us,
to save nature, is to save us.
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