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Paris Winter, Carer

Hi Oldies Don't Panic. We've got it. Have to admit it took you long enough to get things straight, but I can see you are afraid of what change might be like. Let me tell you the change in lifestyle …Read more

Sandra Cruze, Hair Stylist

Lucia this is for you, your children and your children’s children. This coming week is historic. Community representatives from all over the world are gathering in Paris to hammer out an environmental plan that will be a defining moment for …Read more

Christine Colasurdo, Writer

Dear Children of the Future: Are you alive and well on a healthy planet? This is the question that worries many in my generation: have we Homo sapiens destroyed future viability for ourselves and other species? Have we gone too …Read more

Carter & Olivia Ries, Founders of One More Generation (OMG)

Hi, my name is Carter and together with my sister Olivia, we started our own nonprofit called One More Generation (OMG). We are writing to tell you about a problem we were facing back when we were just early teenagers. …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

Jose Guerrero, Graphic Designer & Web Developer

Dear future spawn of mine, Sorry about the predicament we put you in. I know sorry won't stop the dryer longer droughts or reclaim the billions of acres of arid wasteland. Sorry won't calm the maniacal fervor of the superstorms …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

Rob Swigart, Writer

Dear Ari, I wanted to tell you a little bit about my world, because yours is going to be very different. For one thing, I was born into a world where we communicated over long distances by physical letters, or …Read more

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

John Mott-Smith, Columnist

Dear Maceo (the name of my descendant to whom I am writing this letter), The Paris Climate Talks are over and I’m very happy to report that, finally, world leaders came together and didn’t leave the table until they agreed …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

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