Angela Glore, Parent/Non-profit Director

My sweet girl, When you were born, we decided you would be our only. This decision was born from the same place as our vegetarianism -- we want to live lightly on the Earth. I think about your future all …Read more

Martin Gugino, Computer Analyst

Yes we knew. But there were other problems as well, as bad. And the need to make dinner and go on with life. In the United States, and increasingly in the rest of the world, there was the takeover of …Read more

David Gregory, Radiographer

Today it was announced that a deal had been struck and all the political leaders congratulated themselves on taking action. That political theater- as you well know- proved to be folly. Humans have once again shown themselves to be all …Read more

Yunni Min, UWT Student

To my future children, I hope by the time you read this that our world has changed. Right now I live in a world where people are dying from just breathing in the air outside because of pollution. I live …Read more

Jessica Summers, Fashion/Interior Designer/Artist

To anybody that might be reading this, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry! I don't think I have the vocabulary to even describe the pain I have felt--mind, body and soul--when I think about the things we could …Read more

Dawn Tucker, Seeking Full Time Employment

I fully expect this letter to be floating around, landing long enough for a random stranger to read it and toss it into the wind. Hi. I'm Dawn- I helped cause these ruins. I never had kids because I saw …Read more

Violet Jarasitis, Student

The generations before me used this beautiful Earth as a huge garbage can. I am sorry for this. We now know that the resources of out planet are limited and that we are merely visitors on this land. I hope …Read more

Carol Davis, Sustainability Manager

Can you forgive us? Your lives are so much harder than they had to be. Does it matter to you that many of us tried? Does it matter to you that I tried? We tried so hard - we devoted …Read more

Kelcie Hollingsworth

I am sorry. For what we did to the air, what we put in the water, and what we did to the trees. I'm sorry that we did not think ahead, that we didn't think about your future and only …Read more

Jay Snider, HR Leader

A letter from a father to his two daughters. In the past there was a world where people cared more about being heard than being right. People cared more about arguing their point than listening to a differing opinion. People …Read more

Ahmed Gaya, Climate Activist

To my Grandchildren, I’m sorry. Your world is so much harder because of what we did not do. It took us too long to realize there was a problem. It took longer still to realize the scope. Once we understood, …Read more

Jared Hines, Artist

Dear Future Generations, Flesh of my begotten flesh- how might I ever ask for your sovereign forgiveness with such mounting distance between you and I? Temporally eons away, yet we find ourselves having made land on shores not dissimilar in …Read more

Greeley Miklashek, MD, Retired Neuropsychiatrist and Active Stress Researcher

So, as you find yourselves scrounging for whatever resources your predecessors didn't already thoughtlessly exhaust, look around yourself. If there are more than an absolute maximum of 2 billion of your fellows attempting to scratch out a living on a …Read more

Gabrielle Barnes, Student

On behalf of all mankind, I am sorry. I apologize for inviting you to live on a planet that has been previously abused. It’s like we invited you to a wild party that just ended, and in return you have …Read more

Annette Faurote, Retired National Park Guide/Interpretor/Driver

What can I say. There are no real words to explain all that is going on in our world today. Earth and all the gifts it's given are so incredible and beautiful. I am grateful everyday for the amazing trees …Read more

Mark Stemen, Professor

I am sorry. As I sit here early in the morning and think about my great, great-granddaughter, living in a climate-changed world, I am sorry is the main thought that keeps coming to mind. I am writing this letter to …Read more

Kerry Schumann, Exeutive Director, Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters

Dear great, great grandchildren, As you look back on my generation, I hope you are thanking us. I hope we are remembered as having come to the brink of disaster, but turned back just in time to leave this planet …Read more

Jack Miles, Professor of Religion, Pulitzer Prize Winner

We are sorry, so very sorry. You are living in a wrecked world, those of you who have not already perished, but you did not wreck it. We did, we of the early 21st century. The great nations of our …Read more

Mark Farmer, Professor of Cellular Biology at the University of Georgia

These words will bring you no solace and they bring no joy to me, but I feel that by way of confession I must say them nonetheless. I am sorry. Very, very sorry. As I think of the misery we …Read more

Carol Talmage, Retired from Human Services

Dear future generations, On what we have done in the 20th century: Technology before wisdom, greed before love, wealth before compassion. Too much, too big – unless you have nothing. Oil spills, plastic pervades, species disappear. Climate changes, ice melts, …Read more

Carolyn White, Children's Book Author, Professional Storyteller

Dear Future
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Michael de Guzman, Writer

Dear Boychiks, When you are my age, this century will be three-quarters over. I think the world will be vastly different in some ways, and much the same in others. Air and water will certainly be more polluted than they …Read more

Daniel Glick, Journalist and Author

I know. I know. "I'm sorry" sounds hollow and more than a little pathetic. Not enough of us tried hard enough; too many of us had on ear buds and went deaf. I'm still sorry, though.Read more

Maureen McGarry, Director, Volunteer Center of the Redwoods

Dear Family of the Future, Since I did not have children, this is for all who came after me. I loved and cared for many children and saw them as future guardians of the planet, and of all that is …Read more

Donn Harris, Executive Director, Oakland School for the Arts; Chair, California Arts Council

Even back then, I always had mixed and complex ideas about climate change. As a proponent of almost every progressive cause, this was one I'm less sure about. The info and analysis I got back then was suspiciously in line …Read more

Mark Foster

We are sorry that we spent billions of dollars and mortgaged your future over what you now know was a scheme to redistribute money throughout the earth. We corrupted science and lied to further the power agenda of a few …Read more

Kim Stanley Robinson, Author, Nebula and Hugo Award Winner

Dear Great-Great-Grandchildren, I’ve been worried about you for a long time. For years it’s seemed like all I could say to you was, “Sorry, we torched the planet and now you have to live like saints.” Not a happy message. …Read more