Wythe Holt, Retired Law Professor

I live by the sea. I am 73, so I probably won't see the ocean come up to my front door and eventually ruin my home, but that has become inevitable with the essential failure of the Climate Change talks. …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

Victoria Frey, Student

Dear Future Generates, You've all probably heard of dinosaurs, the almost mythical creatures that roamed the earth millions and billions of years ago, and we are still finding out more and more about them. Do you ever think about how …Read more

Robin Kristufek, Public Health Nurse

Dear Great great grandchildren, You must be wondering “Why??? Why can we only walk on 1% of earth’s land? Why are water and soil so poisonous that our mother does not let us touch it in some places? Why are …Read more

Dion Lewis, Scientist

Sorry. You know... For everything. I'm embarrassed, writing to you; civilized, knowledgeable, peaceful, happy, wise. My membership in time is an abhorrent way to be, can you transport me? Your history teaches that we were troglodytes who became territorial-squabbling-troglodytes. Trivial, …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

Dagmar L. Anders

I just finished my vegan meal. That is normal for you. Most people around you eat vegan, most people on earth eat vegan. There is nothing to point to about it. But in my times there was. Eating a plant …Read more

Bob Kalayjian, MD, Physician

Dear Grandchildren, We were slow to start and spent too much time fighting about who was more responsible and how much each country should do. So many of us were distracted by wars and greed that we didn't see how …Read more

Beverly Naidus, Artist, Author, Activist, Professor

Dearest ones, I write this with a heart full of both grief and gratitude. It may be difficult to imagine that there were ancestors who really cared about your future, but there are many of us now who do, and …Read more

Jake Davis, Groundskeeper

Dearest friends, We didn't realize what we were doing. We just didn't. We didn't realize how bad things were getting or how bad they were going to get. In my time we lived in a world of such plenty; plenty …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

Daniel Wilson, Journalist

Dear Future, I am going to cut right to the chase because I waited until the last second to get this done. Hey, what can I say? I’m a journalist and I’m used to working on deadlines. If that deadline …Read more

Perry Elerts, Student

Children, There have existed few moments in history where the future of the world has looked as bleak as it did in 2015. Climate change threatened the very existence of life on earth. The most pivotal moment in our history …Read more

Leonard Sobczak, Real Estate

To the children of the future; We tried. I was heartened back then when President Jimmy Carter was promoting and modeling fuel conservation. I was horrified when President Ronald Reagan dispensed with that message and heralded the era of gas …Read more

Arlene Williams, Writer

I hope you are alive. I have to admit that you may not survive. Every day that we warm this Earth without changing our technology, your chances are getting slimmer. If you are alive, I fear that the conditions you …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

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

David Sweet, Retired History Professor

Dear Ones, Here’s hoping that you and other 23rd-century people will read these letters, and know that many in the 20th and 21st came finally to understand that our relationship to the rest of nature is wrongly conceived, intrinsically destructive, …Read more

Julia Brabenec, Retired Orchardist and Gardener

Dear children of the future, I want to tell you a story: It began in 1926 when I was born, and is near to being finished in 2015. Once upon a time: The world that I was born in was …Read more

Joy Horowitz, Journalist, Author, Teacher

Dear Future Ones. Tonight, I'm going to a City Council meeting in Torrance, Ca. to hear how residents are worried about the future of the Exxon Mobil refinery there. It blew up about six months ago. The explosion shook houses …Read more

Ralph Alldredge, Lawyer/Publisher

The Paris Conference of 2015 helped to focus world attention upon the problems of global warming and suggested some steps that might might be taken to lessen its impact. But within two years it became evident that the tipping point …Read more

Sean Bechtold, Writer

Dear Us; I've done a lot of thinking about our future, how best to prepare for it, and what future generations might think about my contemporaries. Although I've only anticipated a little of what we might expect, its better than …Read more

Joey Garcia, Author, Advice Columnist

Dear Ones, I am writing to ask for forgiveness and understanding. More accurately, I want to explain how our relationship with Earth went terribly, terribly wrong during my lifetime. At the 2015 Paris Climate Talks, the differences between Earth’s needs …Read more