Dear Earth,

Your climate is changing and it’s all of our faults. We came onto this planet
thinking we could do anything we wanted, live how we wanted, and thought that you wouldn’t
suffer the un-comprehensional consequences that are being faced today. Only to know that they
will be faced for years to come. Time isn’t our friend in this case; it will keep passing by as
quickly as a shooting star in the sky. “Time is irrelevant”, is what some say, when in reality the
time we have right now is what could be the little that is possibly left before everything that has
happened, and is yet to come, is permenit; continuing to get worse month after month, and year
after year. Time is relevant, time is priceless, time is important, and is what we need to use as an
advantage in this case to reverse the effects of climate change.
We chop down your trees, we contribute to the raging infernos, and we displace animals
as well as other organisms from their habitats that they can’t survive without. The wiggling
finger-like roots of your trees are no longer dancing freely as before due to us humans cutting
your trees down. We use your trees as paper that we write on, crumple up, and throw away as if
we’re trying to be like Steph Curry and shoot a three pointer to win a Basketball game. As the
time runs down, the clock hits zero, and time is up; time for us humans to do anything has
expired, unless we act now and we act fast. Thriving over surviving should be our mindset, but
are we going to start doing anything to help the habitats, it’s animals, and forests? The answer is
yes. Yes, I believe that we need to come together to begin acting on this web of problems instead
of doing nothing about it.
The amount of pollution that we continue to dish out on you is unfathomable. It’s
continuously piling up at fast moving and unspeakable rates. Air pollution is causing major
health problems to people globally, but we choose not to deal with it knowing that we’ll have to
work hard to stop the dangerous, unthinkable path we’re on. The pollution that us humans cause
to end up in your oceans creates problems for the marine animals. They don’t deserve to have to
live with the endless build up of plastic invading their home and mistaking it as food. Later on
dying with the added possibility of their species becoming endangered, and or extinct because of
what we have done to your oceans.
Earth, your oceans should be as clear as crystal and I’m sorry that many of them aren’t.
The environment can’t thrive and flourish the way it should because of what we have done to
you, everything from the types of pollution to deforestation and the agonizing impacts many
animals and organisms face. If we want a future to look forward to for ourselves and the next
generations to come, then action needs to be taken sooner than later. Earth, as humans we need to
do better, we need to do better for you.
I’m sorry for what we have done to you,
Ashlyn