Dear Future Generations,
I think I speak for the rest of us when I say
Sorry, sorry we left you with our mess of a planet
Sorry that we were too caught up in our own doings to do something
Dear Future Generations,
I think I speak for the rest of us when I say
Sorry, sorry we left you with our mess of a planet
Sorry that we were too caught up in our own doings to do something
Sorry we listened to people who made excuses
To do nothing
I hope you forgive us
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
For example
I'm guessing you probably know what is the Amazon Desert, right?
Well believe it or not
It was once called once called the Amazon Rain Forest
And there were billions of trees there
And all of them gorgeous and just um..
Oh, you don't know much about trees, do you?
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.
And that wouldn't make me so sad
If there weren't so many pictures of leaves on it
You know when I was a child
I read how the Native Americans had such consideration
For the planet that they felt 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
So I'm sorry, I'm sorry that we put profit above people
Greed over need, the rule of gold above the golden rule
I'm sorry 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 them
But most of all, i'm sorry about our mindset
cause we had the nerve to call this destruction
Progress
Hey Fox News, if you don't think climate change is a threat
I dare you to interview the thousands of homeless people in Bangladesh
See, while you was in your penthouse nestled
Their homes were literally washed away
Beneath their feet due to the rising sea levels
And Sara Palin, you said that you love the smell of fossil fuels
Well I urge you to talk to the kids of Beijing
Who are forced to wear pollution masks just to go to school
See, you can ignore this, but the thing about truth is
It can be denied, not avoided
So I'm sorry future generation
I'm sorry that our footprints became a sinkhole and not a garden
I'm sorry that we paid so much attention to ISIS
And very little how fast the ice is melting in the arctic
I'm sorry we doomed you
And I'm sorry we didn't find another planet in time to move to
I am s...
You know what, cut the beat, 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
Because 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
Sorry
Drage buduće generacije,
Mislim da govorim za nas ostale kad kažem
Oprostite, oprostite što smo te ostavili s našim neredom planeta
Žao mi je što smo bili previše uhvaćeni u vlastita djela da bismo nešto učinili
Oprostite što smo slušali ljude koji su se oprostili
Da ništa ne radi
Nadam se da ćeš nam oprostiti
Jednostavno nismo shvatili koliko je zemlja posebna
Poput braka koji ide po zlu
Nismo znali što imamo dok ga nije nestalo
Na primjer
Pretpostavljam da vjerojatno znate što je pustinja Amazona, zar ne?
Dobro vjerovali ili ne
Nekada se zvao nekoć zvan Amazonska kišna šuma
I tamo je bilo milijardi stabala
I svi su prekrasni i samo um ..
Oh, ne znaš puno o drveću, zar ne?
Pa da vam kažem da su stabla nevjerojatna
I mislim, doslovno udahnemo zrak
Oni stvaraju i čiste naše zagađenje
Naš ugljik, oni pohranjuju i pročišćavaju vodu,
Dajte nam lijek koji liječi naše bolesti, hranu koja nas hrani
Zbog čega mi je tako žao, reći vam to
Spalili smo ih
Smanjite ih brutalnim strojevima, stravično
Brzinom od 40 nogometnih terena svake minute
To je 50% svih stabala na svijetu
U posljednjih 100 godina
Zašto? Za ovo.
I to me ne bi tako tužno
Ako na njemu nije bilo toliko slika lišća
Znate kad sam bio dijete
Pročitao sam kako su Indijanci imali takvo razmatranje
Za planetu koju su smatrali odgovornim
Jer su napustili zemlju za sljedećih 7 generacija
Što mi donosi veliku tugu, jer većina nas danas
Ne zanima me ni sutra
Tako da mi je žao, žao mi je što smo zaradili preko ljudi
Pohlepa zbog potrebe, pravilo zlata iznad zlatnog pravila
Žao mi je što smo prirodu koristili kao kreditnu karticu bez ograničenja potrošnje
Preko sastavljanja životinja na izumiranje
Krađa vaše šanse da ikada vidite njihovu jedinstvenost
Ili se s njima sprijateljiti
Žao mi je što smo toliko otrovali oceane da ne možete ni plivati u njima
Ali najviše od svega, žao mi je zbog našeg razmišljanja
jer smo imali živaca da nazivamo ovo uništenje
Napredak
Hej Fox News, ako ne mislite da su klimatske promjene prijetnja
Usuđujem se da intervjuirate tisuće beskućnika u Bangladešu
Vidite, dok ste bili u svom penthouseu
Njihovi su domovi doslovno oprani
Ispod njihovih stopala zbog porasta razine mora
I Sara Palin, rekla si da voliš miris fosilnih goriva
Pa, pozivam vas da razgovarate s djecom Pekinga
Koji su prisiljeni nositi maske zagađenja samo da bi išli u školu
Vidite, to možete zanemariti, ali stvar o istini je
Može se odbiti, a ne izbjegavati
Tako da mi je žao buduće generacije
Žao mi je što su naši otisci postali vrtača, a ne vrt
Žao mi je što smo toliko pažnje posvetili ISIS -u
I vrlo malo koliko se led brzo topi na Arktiku
Žao mi je
I žao mi je što nismo pronašli drugi planet na vrijeme da se preselimo
Ja sam s...
Znate što, prerežite ritam, nije mi žao
Ovu budućnost ne prihvaćam
Jer pogreška ne postaje pogreška
Dok ga ne odbijete ispraviti
To možemo preusmjeriti, kako?
Dopustite mi da sugeriram da ako poljoprivrednik vidi drvo koje je nezdravo
Ne gledaju grane kako bi ih dijagnosticirali
Gledaju u korijen, tako poput tog poljoprivrednika
Moramo pogledati korijen
A ne na grane vlade
Ne političarima koje vode korporacije
Mi smo korijen, mi smo temelj, ova generacija
Na nama je da se pobrinemo za ovaj planet
To je naš jedini dom, moramo globalno zagrijati svoje srce
I promijeniti klimu naših duša
I shvatite da nismo odvojeni od prirode
Mi smo dio prirode
A izdavanje prirode znači izdati nas
Spasiti prirodu jest spasiti nas
Jer za što god se borite:
Rasizam, siromaštvo, feminizam, gay prava
Ili bilo koje vrste jednakosti
To ni najmanje neće biti važno
Jer ako svi ne radimo zajedno na spašavanju okoliša
Bit ćemo jednako izumrli
Oprosti