Letters to Tomorrow

To the descendants of Mr and Mrs Blackbird,

What is life like for you now?

We watched your great great grandparents from our window each day. Saw them hopping about the garden, collecting materials to build their nests and feeding from our lawn – insects and invertebrates in the Spring, berries and seeds in the Autumn and Winter. We helped them by scattering seeds out and leaving plenty of water in...

To my dog, Kiaora,

Many people might think it crazy that I'm writing to you, my dog, but you are one of my most loved ones out there and I know there are a good amount of people who know how I feel. You may only have a 10 more years of lifespan ahead of you, but it's daunting to think how much change can come to the world in that time, good or bad. There is something amazing in how much...

To my children,

A good person told me once that it was no good trying to encourage politicians to think about the climate emergency. That the only way to make a difference was for us all to do what we can, in our own corners.

Well, good people have been doing that for decades, but it’s no longer enough.

The terrifying signs are here - more storms, more...

To future generations,

There’s nothing more wonderful to me than a wild flower meadow.

When you step into one, it’s like crossing into the pages of the most magical story book. There are beautiful images, whole little worlds, societies and characters all around you. It’s full of life and colour. You can sit peacefully and ponder, or jump in and explore.

In the...

To the future,

I hope there is someone there to read this , although I had some doubts about that because we are in a crisis and on the cusp of catastrophe , and if we didn’t do the right things soon , then these will be wasted words posted to an empty world.

We had potentially the worst collection of global leaders at the most critical time for our species . They were not...

Dear Future Recipient,

Sorry we've left a troubled world behind. I did the best I could and then I died. I have attached a poem. It is a constant reminder of how things have fallen apart.

Yes the acid rain has bleached the colors of the earth (killed her biodiversity). But you can turn the ashes beneath your feet to green power... to illuminate the path for future generations... to...

To my Granddaughter Lily ,

I know about our changing climate. Well before Sir David Attenborough or Prince Charles bought it to the fore with public debate the changes in my chosen career made it so obvious.
As you know my job was construction. During my 42 working years the changes I experienced made the change very clear to me.
As a young apprentice we had to put strong antifreeze in all...

To my Year One students ,

Dear Plastic Action Heroes

I am so sorry that the world you are growing up into has been marred by the folly and greed of a few. I have protested, marched, bought less, upcycled, re used, been a member of climate action groups and talked about the damage humans are doing to their home for forty years now.
A massive and radical change in the way we live...

To my future self,

Tomorrow will be 1st June 2023. There are 79 months or 57,721 hours until 1st January 2030. If I spend 1% of that time on climate activism, that would only be 577 hours.

I commit to spending at least that amount of time on being a community connector and sharing the ideas of doughnut economics.

For over a year already, I have been taking action...

To my son,

I'd like to say we acted fast enough and my hope was that we did.
I can't think of anything more precious than nature and our environment and seeing you enjoy it so much as a child made me realise with fresh eyes just how precious it is.

We fought hard to protect it, in a space where politically progress was slow But what got us there I hope was...

To my grown up children,

I’m hoping that as you read this you are still able to enjoy the green countryside of Yorkshire, with birds singing and the bees (and occasional wasp) still floating around the lawn. I hope we can still hear children laughing in paddling pools in the summer and that it’s not too hot to play and sit out, nor too cold or flooded to walk the dog in the winter.

to myself and friends,

What are the greatest delights? Going for a walk. What can you see, what can you hear, what can you smell? Surveying the great panoramas of hills, waterways, woods, moorland, wetlands, the seaside or just your garden.

Hold a picture of what you see now and imagine it as being even better in the future.

We must all strive to take proper...

To My Future Grandchildren,

I am writing this on the 25th May 2023 and I really hope that by the time you read this letter the world is a better place.
We live in a beautiful world, but by each passing day we are seeing the destroying results by our ignorance.
If your parents have told you anything about me, they will have talked around how I hate plastic, and the need to reduce this in our...

Fellow Animals,

I hope that we will stop exploiting you.
Whether for food, clothing, entertainment or sport, we have killed and abused you throughout our history. We kill two billion of you a month for our food. We keep hundreds of millions of you in industrial factory farms so you can never see the light of day. Some of you can't move because you get fatter that way. Meanwhile, the...

To my beloved son & daughter,

I am writing this letter in the hope that the planet I have grown up loving but being concerned about its progressive abuse is a better place for you when you are my age.

When I was a child, adults were ignorant about how our desires led to actions that began to cause serious adverse repercussions for the earth. Now there is no excuse for ignorance but...

Phoebe, Astrid & Matilda Davies,

My dear granddaughters,
I hope that by the time you are adults, that many more people will have rewilded their gardens.
Also that there will be an increase in small garden birds and a healthy number of pollinators.
A future where oceans are cleaner and all whales and dolphins free of threat from humans.
I hope many green areas will be filled with...

To my Sons ,

You are young and have full exciting, lives ahead. I am excited to walk part of that pathway alongside you.

You understand that the opportunities for yourselves and others will be shaped by the decisions which we take now.

You have opinions and a voice to share them and you understand that decisions we take as individuals matter. Our...

To my 7 Grandchildren,

Dear Kids,

I always wanted to be able to write this letter. Right back to the 1970's I saw what was happening to our planet with man's consumption of resources, particularly fossil fuels leading to climate change. If it wasn't stopped it would seriously damage the planet you inherit from us. It is very late now for people to change course, be responsible, good...

To my grandchildren, Cora, Alma, Freya and Frankie,

I want to apologise for my own ignorance and selfishness and for the years of others unwitting contribution to placing the world that you are growing up in in such danger. I know now how urgent it is to take action and wish that there had been a whole lot more wisdom in the world sooner.
We have been blessed with a beautiful planet, abundant with life and rich in...

My Grandchildren,

I don't know if I will ever meet you, you see your parents haven't yet met.

Firstly I want to apologise for everything that has gone before. I can't even remember the day when everything started to change. It all seemed to happen under stealth and was suddenly the normality. It frightens me to think of how easy it all was. If only it were that simple to put...

To my little granddaughter ,

Hello my little darling!
I love you so much!
You told me yesterday how afraid you are “of everything!” I’m so sorry..
This beautiful world is full of love and light, birds and trees, whales and butterflies. We are surrounded by a mystery that keeps us here, supports us and enables us.
But you I know, at the edges of our days, a creeping...

To my Grandson, Rupert,

I feel it’s all our responsibility to slow down the effects of climate change so you, Rupert, can have a future where you can enjoy this wonderful planet and your children and children’s children can also enjoy the beauty of it all.
There was a time when I was young when the four seasons were predictable but now there seems to be extremes of weather which cause so...

To my children, Lyla and Ewan,

In 20 years time I hope you are looking back at what is happening right now and be thankful that the warnings and the science were taken seriously. I hope that you see a movement, a change, a momentum and I hope that you see every single person and every single nation doing all they can to prevent a catastrophic chain of events.

For this to be a realistic...

To my future imaginary granddaughter, Dubheasa ,

Dear Dubheasa,

I hope you live a life of joy through your senses and that you live in a world that can provide you with:
• delicious food, flavourful and varied
My generation destroyed the abundant supply of wild Irish salmon, wild berries, wild mussels, wild thistle, wild rhubarb and more that i used to enjoy so much every summer.
I...

To My Future Self,

So, your father was a car dealer. Does that mean YOU have to be a petrol head?

So, your work meant you had to fly all over the place. Does that mean YOU have to go on planes now?

So, your house came with an oil burner. Does that mean YOU have to burn fossil fuels now?

So, you rated yourself, were used to wearing designer labels....

Aos meus irmãos e amigos.,

Today, I want to write about how we treat the Earth, which is our only home. This is very important because now we are in danger of destroying it through our ignorance.

Our societies have become very materialistic. We focus mostly on products to buy. The economic system is driven by the ceaseless quest for more profits, which leads to manufacturing goods that...

To my beloved friends at CCDA ,

Am so delighted to write such a beautiful latter to you friends at Christian Community Development Association CCDA as your loved partner to bring more awareness in community by solving up problems of climate change in Uganda Africa. Am writing this to you to inform you that in our community we have faced challenges of climate change where by you find dry areas which caused by...

To my darling grandson, Leo,

When you grow up I hope you find the world is on a path to recovery. As I write this we have politicians who SAY they want to address climate change and nature, but DO the reverse, influenced by oil companies to carry on as usual. I and lots of other people feel very angry about this, and work hard to "live lightly" on this planet and to tell people why they need to do this...

To my dear great, great grandchildren ,

Thank you for telling me about your Nourishment class today. I am so glad you enjoy this subject because your grandparents (my grandchildren) fought hard to include it in the school syllabus. Your grandparents started learning about the environment at school, during the terrible Climate Crisis of the 2020s. There was another crisis going on in the UK- a health crisis because...

Elinor, my granddaughter,

I am writing this on a spring day when I can see some blue sky and birds – collared doves, blackbirds, starlings, blue tits and a robin. Unfortunately our birdlife and nature generally has declined dramatically over the years as the growing human population has meant more housing, buildings and roads and less connected green spaces. We have become a throw away society too,...

To all of my future relatives,

To the generation of the future who are taking on the responsibility of caring for the planet. I admire and honour you.

We who came before you found it hard to do this. We could see the signs that the planet was struggling because of the thoughtless ways we humans had treated our environment. We thought we should take what we wanted without thinking of the...

My Grand children - Annaliese, Louisa, Chloe, Jane,

Dear lovely girls,
When your parents were your age, I used to worry about if they would have a world a as nuclear weapons were being introduced.
Now, I am writing to you to apologise that we have destroyed your world, not by weapons of war, which so far we are controlling our use of, but by our own short sightedness and selfishness. Every tree chopped down,...

Dear Daughter,

I am hopeful to see how things have turned out. When I am writing this now in 2023, the future is a bit bleak. Today I went to the beach and it was covered in litter washed up in a storm. Our climate is changing rapidly and it is having a huge effect on humans and uncountable other species. We know we are responsible for the speed and magnitude of this change and we are...

My children ,

Hello Darlings,

I am thinking of you and the challenges you must be facing. Right now the world is a difficult place to be. It remains beautiful but it is becoming more vulnerable because of the damage humankind has inflicted on it.

As you go about your lives, I expect that food is very expensive, doubtless you grow most of yours. I wonder if you...

To anyone that knows me!,

We must act now to save ourselves, our precious wildlife and our green spaces. Let's stop building and destroying the environment. Let's stop the senseless waste and trashing of our lands and seas. Let's stop the pollution. Let's take a stand and make a difference.

To my beloved grandchildren,

I'm thinking of the world you will inherit from us. The one we have, unwittingly at first, poisoned. The world today is experiencing the devastating effects of climate change, and it is a constant reminder of our urgent need to act.

I hope that soon, the world will take more action to reduce carbon emissions and prevent further damage. I hope that governments,...

To my sons Morgan and Ryan,

I really hope the future is better than it is now for all our sakes.
Please keep up with the good work protecting the planet as you do now.
My fear is that in the future there won't be much left of greenery, trees, certain species of animals and that's devastating!
I hope the world is in a better place...but I am having doubts. Please let me be wrong

To those who tread in our footsteps ,

Hope is something which radiates through so much of our thinking. It’s often the only thing we can grasp on to. More often than not it’s the last thing for us
to grasp.
There is never a day when I don’t think about our world, what we have done to it. The beauty of the land, the wonder of the creatures which inhabit it, being
destroyed at a rate...

To my grandchildren,

Firstly, I hope there's still a workable environment left, and one that is based on 'nature' as we understand it now.
When I was a kid, fifty or so years ago, it was impossible to go out on a summer's day without being surrounded by multitudes of different insects, all going about their useful and necessary lives. But now, it's an event to see a bee or two, a couple of...

To My Grandchildren,

A good person once told me that it was no good trying to encourage politicians to think about the climate emergency, the only way to make a difference was for us all to do what we can, in our own lives and areas of influence.

Well, good people have been doing their part for decades, but it’s no longer enough. We need bigger sustainable actions across all...

To Future Readers,,

By the time you read this, it will be 2030!!!! I wanted to tell you that our world 🌍 is one of a kind. We need to treat it with respect ✊! If you continue to litter and use gas ⛽️, it will poison ☠️ the world and we might never see it again.

Help our planet 🌍 to be a better place for all of you to live in. It it one of a kind!!!!!!! We might not...

To the Future Children I Treasure and Care For,

Dear Wonderful beings...

It was hard to 'save this world' for you (VERY hard), and it didn't feel that is what we were doing - we had so MUCH opposition; at times it was a plain ugly fight!!
The politicians were still not listening to the scientists who were telling us just HOW BAD it will be if we don't dramatically change course. But we -the sane...

To my children,

A good person told me once that it was no good trying to encourage politicians to think about the climate emergency. That the only way to make a difference was for us all to do what we can, in our own corners.

I am told that if we demonstrate, the Government will listen to us and act accordingly. Big Corporations and Governments have known about the Climate...

To my daughter, Georgia,

I hope the future you are living in is one with increasing bio-diversity, green spaces, where we have recognised we don't need to consume so much to thrive. I am scared that it won't be - but instead we will be facing irreparable damage to our planet - even though it's the only one we've got and if we break it, we won't be able to fix it.

I want you to know I...

My daughter Avaleigh,

I’m writing this letter because I believe strongly in saving our planet. I want you to grow up in a world where the natural world is protected and humans are at peace with nature, living in harmony with animals. That’s why I’m protesting the large corporations now that are trying to destroy these beautiful natural things, like deforestation, pollution, sea pollution and...

To our sons George, Chris and dog Truffle ,

I am writing this letter to you as I hope my voice will eventually be heard by politicians who need to act now and help us all protect our planet we call home. I have signed petitions, recycled and appealed to people of influence to help protect Nature, animals and our environment so you can continue to enjoy it in your lifetime the same as I have. Whether that has been...

To my Grandchildren of the future ,

I am hoping that when this letter gets to you the world as I see it today is a healthier one.

There is alot of talk on the TV about nature and how it is being destroyed across the world by us. This is having a knock on effect and I feel terrible for the absolute state in which the world actually is. There are animals being killed for money, trees being hacked...

To the children of the future,

One of my favourite things to do is wander over to a natural area and breathe. To fill my lungs with fresh air, watch birds soaring through the sky, listen to the rustling of leaves. I hope you can do this. I hope there are still wild places that haven’t been bombarded by litter or invaded by houses or dried out from drought. I hope you get to experience the joy of watching...

To my three grandchildren,

My hope is that our government, and governments around the world, will take the urgent actions needed to halt the climate crisis and allow the earth to recover and flourish once more. I want you and your children to be able to live healthily and happily in a world with enough water and food for everyone; to be able to enjoy the wonders of nature; to hear birdsong and breathe...

To my future child,

I hope time has been nicer to you than me. I hope we fixed the mistakes of our predecessors, and left the world nicer for you to grow in. I hope the world is cleaner, greener, and safer for you.

Climate change is something I learnt about a decade ago. More than that, actually. Since I was 10, I can remember climate change being the subject on everyone's lips -...

My future children ,

I know you don't quite understand that I didn't start the fire as they say .
But I did try to put it out .
I have been doing my bit for the earth that gave me a home.
My voice has carried it like a pair of wings.
I have wrapped my words around it .
My heart has been in the community, saving waste .
I have been doing my bit for you...

To Future Readers,

Our world will not survive much longer but please 🙏. Save the world 🌍 whilst you still can. Cut down on electricity ⚡️ and try and save our planet. I may be a child but I can be strong 💪. Every child can be strong so please. Mothers and daughters, sons and fathers, be strong and help save Earth today!

To my daughters,

Dear beautiful, miraculous, awesome daughters,

I have no idea what the rest of your lives will be like. I wish I had the certainty that my own mother seemed to have: that the world would continue much as it had done in her lifetime, that it could only get more advanced, that there would be a wealth of opportunity for me. I think I just have uncertainty. Or...

To my daughters (Becca and Kate) and grandchildren (Dan, Ruby and Jacob),

I am sorry the campaigns for climate justice have not worked yet. You know I have tried to do my bit but it is not enough.
I am so grateful to WILPF International and WILPF UK for the excellent work they have carried out at all the COPs and especially to the small working group in UK who developed the Climate Justice Exhibition for COP 26. I am also grateful for the...

To my future self,

Take notice of the world around you. Continue to evolve in your path toward helping planet earth. Keep finding organizations that organize food rescues in order to eliminate food waste. Walk more, continue doing personal beach and neighborhood cleanups while on walks. Spend even more time in nature and visit your state's parks, enjoy what they have to offer and continue...

To my grand-daughter Emily,

What can I say except that i'm so sorry that your life and that of your children has been made so awful by the ongoing problems of climate change and world order. I'm old and it won't affect me soon and I hope that you and your generation will forgive my generation that we didn't force our politicians to do more while there was still time. I don't blame you for being angry...

To my grandchildren,

The fossil fuel industry has known about the damaging impact it was having on the world's climate for well over 50 years.

Politicians have known this for at least 30 years, but unfortunately they haven't had the courage to take appropriate action in the past, and they still aren't taking sufficiently drastic action to control damaging emissions, build resilience...

To my nephews and nieces and their children,

I hope you can live a life where there is not war, and where people do not fight over the remaining capacity of the planet to support humans.

I hope that there are people in government who care about the people they represent and who will make the changes we urgently need to protect humans and the other inhabitants of the earth and to create a sustainable...

To my daughters Alice and Katie,

I hope that my gut is wrong when I feel that mankind is incapable of the change that is needed to stop all humanity and nature from perishing. I am so angry, not at myself, I know that your father and I have campaigned for years about the the climate, plastic and pollution; often making ourselves unpopular and attracting ridicule. I am angry for you two. You have to bear the...

To my future self,

I’m doing all I can to ensure that you can enjoy a beautiful, cruelty-free and eco-responsible world, with towns and cities pollution free and where all energy is renewable, where all food is plant-based, freeing up 75% of land otherwise used for animal based farming, to become re-wilded, and where there is much more equality and care for all.

To my four grandchildren, currently aged 7,5,4 and 1,

My dear grandchildren,

I’m desperately hoping that the governments of the world, plus businesses, civil society and individuals will knuckle down, after the disappointing UN conference (CoP27) held last month in Egypt – and get on with what needs to be done to keep climate change under control.

But today I’m not feeling optimistic because I...

To my future grandchild on the day of their birth in 2030,

You have come into this world, welcomed by your loving parents and grandparents. I wish so much for you to have a happy and fulfilling life. My heart, however, feels heavy with a mix of difficult thoughts and emotions, as well as delight and joy on seeing your tiny, beautiful form.

The happiest experiences I have had have been the times when I have been close to...

Rishi Sunak P.M.,

I have no hope for the future as the powers that be either do not turn up to the COP meetings or no acts on their reccomendations!

The planet is already burning and logging has not stopped. People are starving cos of droughts which last years, yet we do not help. If we can just leave Afghanistan and those that need us putting their lives on the line to aid us. ...

To my young friend, Maria,

Dear Maria, I'm quite old now and have enjoyed the world for over seventy years. I have travelled around the British Isles and Europe and have experienced the beauties of the earth and of human culture. I have also lived and worked for a while in Africa and have seen how important it is to support the people and wildlife there. Africa has been affected by climate change...

To my Dear son David,

I do hope you still able to enjoy the sights and sounds and smells and delights of your childhood .. song of the blackbirds.. daisies in the grass .. chatter of those sparrows in the Hawthorne hedge.. the delight of a canal walk ... the growth of those sapling trees we planted ...

To Ollie, Emily and Jessica my great nephew and nieces,

I write at a precarious time. We stand on the brink of climate and ecological disaster. In some regions of the world, this is already happening. In the Horn of Africa, millions of people are facing famine, crops have failed, and animals are dying. This is because of climate change caused by the raised levels of greenhouse gases which humanity has added to the atmosphere.

To my dear antecedents,

I am writing to you in a troubled time, December 7th 2022. When I was at school 40 years ago I remember learning about the damaging effects of industrial pollution such as acid rain, degradation of the ozone layer, poisoned waterways through chemical waste and sewage overflow. I also learned about the serious effects of deforestation for farming such as desertification which...

To a school child in the future,

Letter to Tomorrow

To a school child in the future,
We are writing this on behalf of Coychurch Primary School children. This is a letter about our hopes and dreams for the future. We hope that in the future, native trees in our rainforests have been replanted and that only sustainable palm oil is used in products worldwide. We want to see many of our...

To Everyone,

We have to protect the eco system because without the natural World we won't survive.

To my children and grandchildren and anyone else much younger,

At 78, I could well put my feet up and say that this climate thing is beyond me and I will be gone before it really hits us. But I have children and grandchildren and they will inherit what I and my friends and comrades have not yet been able to change. Its selfish, but I do not want them to blame me in their future, but to remember me as a fighter for our planet and our...

To my darling daughter, Anna,

October, 2030 will see your seventh wedding anniversary - a great cause for celebration! - BUT I do hope that prospects for your future (and even more for any child or children you might wish to have) are measurably better now than at time time of writing, when institutionalised negligence and inertia regarding the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss continues,...

To my grandchildren,

I just wanted to say how sorry I am that our generation has left you such a dreadful legacy. Whilst we, personally, have tried our best to respect the planet, both the people on it, and the flora and fauna, we have not managed to stop hatred between different cultures and religions, and we have not stopped the destruction of species and habitat, in the rush to have a more...

Dear Crystal,

I'm writing my hopes for this beautiful world!
As you grow up, I hope you are able to enjoy a wonderful life in a protected world. This has taken sacrifice and hard work on behalf of our leaders and our whole community, but it was worth it, to hand on to you and your generation this complex, magnificent fragile planet. We have learnt that caring for our environment is...

To Future Generations,

I have for many years worried that our world leaders, despite climate change and environmental catastrophe being predicted and avoidable, would prevaricate and bow to the interests of greed, fossil industry lies and personal self interest, before considering the interests and needs of the many billions of people who could potentially follow me, if, that is, the world is in a...

To my great niece Freya,

Dear Freya

I really hope I have managed to leave the earth in a better place for you to live in.
I hope there are exotic animals living in their own environments rather than zoos or museums.

I hope you manage to have snowball fights in the winter and enjoy days by the sea in the summer.

My own mantra used to be - we do not...

To my beautiful grandchildren ,

I’m sorry for the mess we have left our planet in. After decades of abuse and destruction to nature and the Earth we have practically destroyed our beautiful planet. I’m hoping and praying though that the future shows that world leaders at least all pulled together just in time to save our planet and give the Earth time to recover so that animals, glaciers and...

To World Leaders,

What can I say to my children and grand-children? We taught then to care for nature, save water, to conserve energy, to buy organic food, to use-reuse-and-recyle, to sign petitions, to join demonstrations against the great polluters of the planet: in effect to do all that individuals and groups could do to protect the earth we love and need. But to what avail. You didn't hear,...

To my grandson Brandon,

As I write this, in 2022, when humankind is suffering the beginnings of the earth's fightback against the damage done to it by humans, our politicians are chanting the mantra of 'growth' as their vision of the future. Sadly, they do not see that their model of growth has been the cause of the problems we now have. We need to challenge the concept of this model, which is...

To my Great-Nieces and Great-Nephews,

Dearest all

I want a Green, clean future for you , one in which the air you breathe is pure, the seas and rivers un-polluted and there is a rich and thriving biodiversity in which humans live in a harmonious and respectful way with their fellow creatures, rather than exploiting them as happens all too much in the present day.

This is what I...

To my granddaughter Rhea Mae ,

We love you more than words can say , and want to give you the best world, a natural world that respects all creatures and the environment. This is what we are pushing those in power for, doing what we can by supporting GreenPeace lobbying members of parliament litter picking recycling giving up meat. Small things but we won’t give up because we love you.
Love...

To my grandchildren,

I ma sorry if my generation did not take action soon enough and your lives have bene blighted as a direct result of our selfishness

I hope I ma wrong and that there are people in government who care about the people they represent and serve, and who will make the changes we urgently need to protect a future for you.

I dream of a future where you...

to my granddaughter Naia,

My darling
It is our great good fortune that we were led by forward thinking politicians who acted in time to secure the future you deserve to have. We were facing absolute catastrophe, mass extinctions and our beautiful planet made uninhabitable. But for the brave actions of our leaders all would have been lost. Live your life.

To my three wonderful children Tadhg fenian and cathael,

I hope the leader's of this planet have listened to what's been told to them in the year 2022 and acted to the climate emergency, so you are not facing the catastrophe I fear we are heading into. I want you to have clean air, be able to swim in clean oceans, experience the sights and sounds of wildlife on our beautiful planet.

To my children Alan and Amber,

Hello lovely people, I just wanted you to know that every day I am trying to do my best to make sure that the world you inherit is fit for purpose. Our world is wonderful and amazing. It needs protecting. That is what I try to do every day. I do this for you, lots and lots of love, now and always mummy bear. xx

To my granddaughter Imani ,

Some of us are trying really hard to reduce our carbon footprint but unfortunately not all of us are. At the moment I am finding it really difficult to understand why it is so much cheaper to fly to Paris to visit you than to take the train. Especially when we all know how damaging flying is to the environment. I'm sure there would be so many of us keen to use the train if it...

To my grand-daughter, Erin,

We hear a lot about the effects of climate change, and in many countries they are already occurring. In Britain, they do not seem so bad, although the record summer temperature this year of 40 degrees gave us a foretaste of what will come. Many of the predictions are about the situation in the year 2100, and to me that seems very distant, and a time that I shall never see. ...

To my great nephews and nieces ,

I’m writing to you my descendants,in the hope that the world is a better place,no fossil fuels being used,environmental issues are non existent,nature is flourishing,and people like you and all across the world live in harmony with the planet,my hopes that you are all happy in your lives,prospering in a fair society,with all the luck in the world,good luck !

To my two children,

I sincerely hope that by 2030 your generation can start to look forward to a future without fear or anxiety and that our generation have fixed some of the many mistakes we have made over the decades. I dream of a future where wildlife is no longer endangered, where our populations are under control, where we choose kindness over cruelty, where we value human and animal life,...

To my granddaughters Esther and Naomi,

By the time you are old enough to vote, the 2030 deadline for international climate action will have passed, and I truly hope and pray that world governments - especially those of the richer sector - will have lived up to their promises to make a positive difference.

The problem is that at each year's COP meeting they make grandiose promises, but then they...

To all the children of the future,

I am sorry, we tried to persuade the government to do something about the destruction of the environment and global warning but they were all too busy feathering their own nests, or worrying about keeping their political parties happy. I hope you have more enlightened representatives in your time than we do, if there are any of you left alive.

Future generations,

I hope when you read this that we have succeeded in preventing the worst of climate change. I would like to think that the world you live in is still beautiful, full of coral reefs, wild savannah, tropical forests and rainforest. I hope too that you don't have to watch old repeats of natural history programmes to see the Big five, I hope you can see them alive and kicking...

To my grandchildren Megan, Olivia, Grace, Oliver, Jacob & Toby,

I'm sorry.

To the descendants of the wonderful birds in my garden,

Your ancestors have given me such pleasure and joy over so many years, their cheerful songs, watching them on the feeders and the way the blue tits work so hard to feed their young and the delight to see them fledge. it is a delight.

My heart is heavy that in the future the birds and other wildlife may be gone forever, and I am so sorry for the way we have not...

To my nephew, Jimmy ,

Here we are, in the future. I hope that the world is beautiful and people are living in harmony with each other and with nature

To my grandson Alexander,

Dear Alex,

I have long been aware of the danger of allowing CO2 emissions to cause climate change and fitted solar panels on my former home. I also invested money with the company proposing to build a series of tidal lagoons to generate power from the large tidal flows in the Severn Estuary.
Sadly the latter project has been halted by UK government on...

To my Grand Daughters, Nancy, Nell and Beatrice Rashleigh-Claye,

Dear Grand Daughters, for indeed dear you are,
When I lived in rural Portugal breathing the fresh country air I felt concern for you breathing London air in Hackney. Since then a young girl has died in South London from breathing polluted air.
Well you are growing up into fine young women and we mustn’t fall into The Slough of Despond (Pilgrim’s Progress),...

To my children’s great great grandchildren,

I’m afraid that you will never get this, because your forebears may not have been born.
It is now 2022 and, despite decades of warning, our current Government is not taking the threat of Climate Change seriously enough.
If they say that the money is needed elsewhere they are not thinking ahead. They may well be spending money which will be wasted, because...

The Prime Minister-Rishi Sunak,

It is high time that HM government started to take Climate Change REALLY seriously. It will probably not affect me as I am 8o years old. It will however affect my Children and certainly affect my Grandchildren. The signs are all there, and climate scientists have been constantly reminding us of the dire effects from this situation. Both main parties have been frankly dragging...

To my dear grandchildren,

I hope that those who havae the power will reduce the use of fossil fuels as a natter of urgency, and get to zero carbon emmissions in time to save our planet for future generations. Already people are dying because of climate cha ge,and biodiversity is reducing at arapid rate.

I really hope that you will have a future to look forward to with hope and...

My future grandchildren ,

I really hope that by the time you are born, the people alive now as I write this letter to you in 2022, have taken the action to save Earth from climate disaster. The people have the power to change and safeguard the world and everything in it for your future on Earth and those of your own children and grandchildren. Let’s hope they took notice and seized the chance whilst...

Governments of all nations,

Climate change is arguably the biggest single threat in the world today to the future of humans, wildlife and landscape. Coordinated co-operation and measures are needed as soon as possible to avert a worldwide catastrophe. Countries cannot effectively take prevention measures in isolation. Please meet in a spirit of goodwill and determination to devise a coordinated approach...

To my children,

I am so sorry that we destroyed this beautiful planet.

You won't be able to see all the wonderful wildlife, majestic trees, ancient forests and clean oceans.
Instead you will be fighting heatwave after heatwave, flood after flood. You won't be able to afford much food.

This is our fault. And when we finally woke up and realised that...

The Future,

The Big Green Week
Wrekin Soroptimists had a stall at the Festival of Imagination Ironbridge to encourage people to reuse repair and recycle in innovative ways, and to think about the world we want for the future by writing :
Letters to the future – wishes and hopes.
Here are transcripts of the letters

“I would like to see a world...

To my children. And their children. And all that follow,

As I sit here, in a warm house, on an Autumnal morning in November 2022 - from my window I see the last golden leaves holding tightly to their increasingly skeletal parents, sodden grass from recent rain, the passing flight of a trio of blackbirds and a snapshot of a village, midday.......quiet.

What strikes me is it's all so quiet.

Behind each...

Dear future self,

I hope that the world is at ease and that the worries and troubles that you and your generation faced as young people have been lost to a bygone age.
I write this after the COP27 climate summit in 2022 where world leaders descended on Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, apparently determined to mitigate the effects of climate change. But, as expected, their determination did not...

To my Grandchildren, Yola, Zora, Bulak and Silke,

Dear Yola, Zora, Bulak and Silke
I love you all.
I have been striving hard to limit my carbon emissions in the knowledge that it is your future that is being endangered, endangered by the wilful blindness of so many so-called statesmen. (No car, no flying, an insulated home with air-source heat pump, a largely vegan diet) The scientific community has spoken loud...

To my unborn grandchild,

Dear Jo
I’m writing this to you now before you’re even born, but if you’re reading this, then hooray, love and optimism overcame logic. It means you were born and you should be all grown up now. Your parents at the present time are in a huge quandary. They don’t think this is the world to bring a child into. They’re looking at our world and are seeing the...

To my grandchild Rain,

Dear Rain

I am so sorry I couldn't make the people in power listen to us when we told them how URGENT climate action was. I did try with my WI friends to spread the word in our local community about ways to reduce individual carbon footprints. Remember those action days you attended with me and your cousins? I was always grateful for the support and passion you...

To this beautiful planet earth ,

Hi there
I just wanted to let you know that I am in love with you and have tried for most of my life to help save you. Wretchedly there are people here who use you to extinguish what we have and go out of their way to destroy what we have!
So many good residents feel the same way and want to make sure you stay beautiful happy and healthy so we can breathe with...

To my ecologically concerned work colleagues,

At the moment there is a lot of willingness from large sectors of society to do something about the environment. Whenever a new recycling initiative is rolled out, the most recent being soft plastics in supermarkets, the collection points are full to overflowing. There are a lot of innovations which are being worked on to lessen our impact on the environment. The two really...

to the people who will one day live in our house,

I don't know your names, but one day you will see ours on the deeds. When we lived here (from 1979 onwards) there were many beautiful trees, there weren't baking hot summers of drought followed by torrential rains in autumn. The seasons and view were predictable and lovely. But things are changing summer ground is 'as hard as iron', autumn ground is muddy and puddly. There...

My nieces, nephews and godchildren,

Dear all,

I'm really hoping that by 2030 there will have been a significant cultural shift, not only in the UK but across the world. Because if there hasn't been, and greenhouse gas emissions haven't been radically reduced, I'm afraid you'll be looking at some major challenges ahead. I may not be around by then but I hope I have set an example in my life and...

To Evie and Oscar, Rex, Star, Alex, Charlie, Sky and Chas ,

I'm not always a very present or hands-on Aunt but you all know how much I love you and whenever we do have time together for stories and hugs it's always extremely special to me. Thinking of your futures makes me sad, because I have spent the whole of your lives working hard to keep the natural world safe from development and other damage, and to get politicians and...

To my future self,

I wonder if our outlook has changed, if the world finally prioritised change, if we accepted what had to be done to avoid the worst instead of dancing around it, pushing it forward, letting it fester. Right now there's very little 'forward' left, and I'm sure it's even less when this is being read.
I'm writing this in medical school, and in the future I hope to have...

To future generations (if there are any),

I'm sorry that you were born at this time, when people let their only planet die. I'm sorry that you have to deal with climate catastrophy, because humanity was too blind and too greedy to deal with it sooner. I'm sorry your life and well-being are at risk, and your basic needs might not be met. I hope we can fix it somehow. We will try. I hope we win.
Our planet does...

To my granddaughter, Lizzie,

I cycled into Lyndhurst in the New Forest yesterday from here, Ashurst, and as the choking traffic filled the air very close to me, zooming past me every ten seconds, I had a vision. There were no cars! But some electric small vehicles travelling along a narrow lane, and the rest of the road were cyclist. Many were on e-bikes, and many had children being pulled along in...

To my siblings, Moira, Anne, Yvonne, Robert 8,

I know I am the youngest of the family, but I am disappointed by your total disinterest in the position we are in regarding the catastrophic effects of Climate Change and that it doesn't even worry you.
If you had let it cross your radar when you were young, things would be better now. Because you don't care about it, you won't even have spoken about it to your kids or...

To my nephew, A.,

Hi A.,
It's November 2022, and the UN climate conference COP27 has started in Egypt. I hope you'll read this in 2030, when you're 22. I hope I'll still be around in 8 years! Maybe on a cruise along the river Nile, sunbathing like a crusty old crocodile.
I hope that, 8 years from now, the climate crisis will be better than it's looking from here.
In 'The...

To current and future generations and the other animals we share this planet with,

I hope that worldwide political leaders in 2022 finally managed to get their act together and take action, not solely to stop global warming but to reverse it.
We owed it not just to ourselves but also to all the other species living on planet Earth.

To my son, Leo,

To my darling boy.
I wonder what the world is like for you now that you're 49, just as I am as I write this letter. I hope the decades of damage we inflicted on our beautiful planet earth have ceased and you're living in a vibrant, verdant green world full of life.

Even though we knew the harm we were doing when we decimated our ancient woodland,...

To my daughter, Jo and the generation of 1976,

We had a foretaste in that summer of '76 of severe drought and the changes to our climate that the world is facing in 2022. Fewer people were listening at that point to the warnings of climate scientists, or were motivated to take action.

From the beginning of your life being veggie, riding buses, trains and bikes and limiting our consumption were very easy...

To my daughters,

I’m hoping you feel safe to have your own children because leaders took the right action at COP 27.

If this is so, you live in a world with more stable weather, clean air and water and clean, renewable, home grown energy. I hope we ensured that poor countries were well financed to cope with initial climate change problems. They deserved our help, after all,...

To my granddaughter, Orla (17 months now),

Hi Orla
I really hope the world is a good place to live in when you grow up and are in your 60s as I am now.
It has been clear since around 1990 that pollution was affecting the climate on our planet, leading to potentially catastrophic changes that would make it impossible for people to live in many parts of the world. We knew that we needed to stop using energy...

Rishi Sunak, Uk Prime Minister,

Dear Mr Sunak,

Those of us who support the Environment of this Country are not happy with the present Government which appears determined to reverse previous commitments.

If you reverse previous commitments, a lot of us will vote against you at the next General Election as this Government shows it cannot be trusted.

With thanks, Rod...

Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak,

Rishi Sunak needs to take Climate Change very seriously, and he needs to step up and tackle the issue.

To Imogen and Marcus, my great nieece and nephew,

I hope the Prime Minister takes strong action at COP27. I fear for rthe world you will have to live in as adults if climate change is not tackled

To My great grandson Leo,

Dear Leo

As I write this you are only a few weeks old and I worry about the future you face. You are the newest member of our family and I want all of you to live in a world where the Earth, our home, has been saved from the threat of climate crisis.

I want your future to be one of hope, of caring for the life we share our home with. The Earth is...

To my future self,

I hope that by the time you read this letter, the world will be at peace and globally working together to enable humans and wildlife to share this planet selflessly. I hope that we as a species have been able to stop empty political rhetoric and actually persuade our world leaders that action is needed now, not next year, not 5 years, but now.
If we cannot galvanize...

To my neices & nephews Olive, Jovie, Albie & Lenny,

Dear little ones,

You are all under 6 years old and here I am at 68. I have been worried about the state of our planet for some time so have done things like grow food on an allotment and now in our kitchen garden, cycled when I can and am now use buses a lot to get around. I really hope that all these little things help towards keeping this beautiful planet...

To my best friend Sue,

What will our world be like if we do not stop and think seriously about its future? For years we have ignored the signs climate change is a real and important issue. We can still prevent the worst possible outcome if all the nations work together. Sea levels are rising, and some parts of our world will be engulfed, thousands of people will be misplaced. Our glaciers are...

To my nieces, Catriona and Eilidh,

Dear Catriona and Eilidh

It's difficult to find the words. I feel so utterly ashamed. My generation, and the generations before me, have trashed your world. I look at you both, beautiful young women, one about to leave secondary school, one half-way through secondary school. And I see your lack of hope in the future. I see despair and cynicism and that haunted...

To my granddaughter Rose,

Dearest Rose, I am so sorry for the future you are going to inherit. We could have acted 40 years ago when it was first noticed that the planet was warming up. I am so sorry that we kept ignoring Climate Change and refused to give up certain aspects of our comfortable life styles. So sorry that we believed the lies of the Fossil Fuel Giants who just wanted to keep making sacks...

To my precious granddaughter Rosa,

In the year 2030, you will be just ten years old. I want your future to be bright and full of all the promise that you deserve.
At two years old you are full of curiosity about the natural world. You love the wildlife that visits your garden; helping mummy and me with digging and watering the plants; sitting on the back of mummy's bike to visit the wetlands and...

To the future owners of our home,

We have been very happy living in this little cottage and hope you have settled in and are now discovering the charms of the village and downland walks beyond.

I particularly loved our garden and the birds and other wild creatures that made it their home. We left space for nature by leaving unkempt corners, letting ivy grow along the fence and by not being too...

Mother Earth,

Dear Mother Earth,

We have failed you.
Exploited your bounty
Desecrated your beauty
Poisoned your air and sea, soil and atmosphere.

You sent warnings
Raging
storms and floods
plague, heat,
drought and fire
as your web of life ebbed away

More! cried the men
Pushing...

To all children ,

today we hold the key to the future of planet Earth.
We have not yet taken the problem of climate change seriously and continue to emit the warming gases at an increasing rate, whilst destroying the planets natural defences in the ever present search for commodities and wealth.
If we continue on the present path (even assuming that the COP26 promises are kept )...

To my grandsons Alfie and Zeph,

My darling boys.
Grandpa and I love you so much, so much that we cannot bear the thought that your future is in jeopardy.
The climate crisis is not the legacy that we thought we would be leaving to you.
For years we have trusted the politicians who have vowed to combat climate change and the reality is that they have done too little too late.
I...

To my grandson Wren (3),

I hope you are enjoying life surrounded by beautiful countryside in a country that has led the way in developing green technology to protect the planet, and is now reaping the rewards of an expanding economy with no people living in poverty.

I fear that the opposite will happen because of government plans to deregulate the countryside, develop more airports and...

To my daughter Giselle,

Darling,I have,at 80 years of age been fortunate to have lived through “the best of times”
During my childhood I ran free in a pristine countryside,relatively free from aggressive agrochemical farming practices,no overfishing,comparatively un polluted streams and rivers,abundant fauna and flora,I could elaborate further but am overwhelmed in this instant by...

To my daughters,

I will not be there to protect you from the destruction which is coming. But I can fight as hard as I can to limit the damage. We need to protect nature - the trees, the seas, the marshland, all the vast array of life - and we need to stop burning fossil fuels. We must stop looking to short term profit and what we can extract from the Earth. Instead, we need a new way of...

To my great nephews, Teddy and Percy Grimwood,

All my love, hope and action has been directed towards nature and the lovely Earth, along with others’.
I pray that our care and efforts have not been in vain and that you are living among vibrant life in a beautiful climate in a peaceful world.

To all future generations,

I hope that you will realise that some of us cared about your future. That we wanted to leave the planet in a better shape than it was when we entered it. I realise that this is unlikely now and it breaks my heart.

I have learnt a lot about human nature in my life. When you are young you trust the grown ups and when you get older you realise that many of the...

To My PM Rishi Sunak,

Dear Rishi. You are young, clever and rich. You have achieved many firsts so far in your life. Now you can do so much more and win much love and respect if you expand your focus to climate change and really learn about it. I suggest you will deeply regret it if you do not grasp this nettle. You can do this to protect the future of your children - and everyone else.
You...

To my Grand-daughter,

My dearest girl,
You live on the opposite side of the world to me. I haven't seen you since you were seven, and now you will be a beautiful, intelligent and sensitive woman. But what world you are now living in depends, tragically, on the whims of blinkered and greedy men who will continue to do all they can to frustrate the passionate efforts of good people to reverse...

To a special grandson,

Yesterday was a very special day. It marked five years, since aged 10, you rang the bell marking the end of your leukaemia treatment at your local children's hospital. So many people from all over the world helped to look after you and global co-operation has been responsible for your recovery. Our planet needs an even more collaborative cure, if its illnesses are to receive...

To my Grandsons Alex and Edward,

My darling boys, I have tried really hard to get the Government to listen to our plea regarding Climate. There is so much we can and must do to keep carbon emissions down. I have written repeatedly to my MP (a Conservative). I send messages & share petitions. I go on marches. They don’t listen. I tweet & share information about what is happening globally. So many of...

To my daughter Daisy,

My darling precious child Daisy
I cannot tell you how scared sad and heartbroken I am that we have left you with a world where love and compassion have been over ruled by fear and greed
We did not look after the earth for you, even though the scientists told us we were destroying it, instead we focused on ourselves and what we needed to sustain our ridiculous...

My Son Mark,

I am rather old and have enjoyed a comfortable life but have become aware that my indulgent western, developed lifestyle has helped to cause a crisis of our environment and this leaves you with much worse prospects than I had when I was young.
Now I try to live a clean, green life but because of the bad habits I have developed over the years and the way our economy...

To my son, Lyall,

Do not let them spoil your world!

To my friends' child, Alexander,

You have just turned two, and you're a bright, little boy learning about the world around him. You already love watching the birds that visit your garden. I hope that you get to experience a world less impoverished in nature than the one I grew up in.
I hope when you are grown that you have political leaders who inspire your trust and who are working together for a...

To my two sons,

Hi,
I'm so sorry that we will leave you the planet is such a state of collapse. I understand that you know this and try to live a life in spite of the future you face - and have decided not to have children as their future will be too blighted by my generations inaction.
We could and can do more, but our leaders lack the vision and compassion needed. They have...

My daughters,

I hope this letter to the future finds that you have a secure existence, with an abundance of resources in a well managed balance!

I hope that we have moved from valuing wealth, to valuing each other, nature and cultural wellbeing!

I hope that my generation has finally played a role in bringing this about.

To my son Adam,

I’ve watched several programs of Planet Earth, it’s an amazing, moving professional program and yet it makes me very sad and concerned seeing how the climate is changing dramatically & affecting from the insects right up to the animals & mammals and the countries and people lives are being destroyed too.
Adam, you are only 20 & have your whole life ahead...

To my son, from your mum,

I hope it is greener and nicer place now to walk, run and cycle around or there are plans to make it like this. I hope community works together more and makes the changes needed alongside governments to reduce the threats of warning and climate chaos together. We know what the scientists are suggesting to secure a less traumatic future for the next generation so I hope that we...

To the wildlife in my garden,

I so enjoy all the wildlife in my garden by the woods. The hedgehog that visits nightly has recently completed filling the hibernation box, that we have provided, with fallen leaves. It has now curled up inside to sleep for the winter. We shall look forward to seeing it emerge next spring, but I wonder whether hedgehogs will still be roaming my garden in the future or is MY...

To my grandchildren,

I have cared a lot about the natural world since I was a teenager in the 1970's. This year it has become clear that the climate crisis is here now, as predicted. Although we still see beauty in the natural world around us, we know that many species are in decline and some have become extinct. If nothing is done, mankind itself is under threat. We know the rise in sea levels...

Prime minister ,

To the current prime minister

We really need to address climate change or there will be no future for any of us.
We have already lost the majority of our wildlife.
The weather changes are already having a massive impact on the lives of everyone & the little that we do is not enough.
You need to up your game massively if we are to survive

Dear Planet Earth,

This is a heartfelt apology that the human species has not looked after you, despite knowing for over 50 years that we were destroying biodiversity. I think it is because of human greed, arrogance and ignorance and political arrangements that rely on greedy votes to stay in power. It seems we are heading for catastrophe for all species and we still have our foot on the...

My Gorgeous Grandchildren, Emililly, Holly Mable, Tangerine, Greg, Jasper and Madeleine,

I have seen you in your buggies and then growing older. I am sad that the world you grow up in will not be as healthy as ours. I am in my 50s and never expected to be a grandad.
I am sad when present politicians believe that things will be OK as technology will find a way to let us continue in the reckless manner using fossil fuels and yet reducing greenhouse gasses....

My niece's and nephews ,

I want you to know how sorry I am that are government did not do more to protect your future.
You know how much I love nature and care about the environment and how I did my bit to reduce my carbon emissions, reduced my meat consumption, reduced plactic use, recycled everything I could, that I didn't use herbicide and pesticides, that I used natural cleaning products...

To all plants, fungi etc., and creatures,

Dear Plants, Fungi etc., and Creatures,

These days I'm disgusted to be a human being because of all the suffering and death you have and are experiencing.
I have seen this horrific climate emergency coming for over thirty years now and always tried to "fight your corner for you". A 'few' other people (in relation to the worlds population) have too but...

To my granddaughter, Isla Grace,

Dear Isla
I am writing to apologise for the failure of my generation to stop fossil fuel extraction despite trying very hard to convince our UK Government to do this. They never realised that the climate crisis was the most important thing to deal with. Their Green New Deal went nowhere near what was needed as they did not do their sums properly. I know you can do...

To my future grandchildren ,

When I try to imagine life in 2030 I feel sad. At present it does not seem that we are planning for a better world and I fear that the picture will be bleak.
Rubbish gathers in the city streets where increasing numbers of homeless people drift, takeout containers and plastic proliferate and spread into our countryside along roads pitted with potholes that no one ever...

To my darling grandchildren,

I just want to say Grampa and I tried very hard to look after our planet . We cycled all our short journeys. We didn't fly anywhere. We cut down on meat and ate as much organic food as we could. We avoided palm oil and produce with air miles.
We put extra jumpers on to keep warm. We zoned the house so we only heated where we needed and we put solar panels on the roof....

Jonathan Reynolds MP ,

We must show deep concern for the future of our planet and the Earth on which our grandchildren will live. Grandchildren from every nation.

The Children of our FAN Family,

We know now that the dream of limiting temperature rises to 1.5ºC is dead. We know now that, even if our leaders step up, you will be living in a world with more hunger, more water scarcity and more extreme weather events. A world where civil unrest is more likely. A world where millions of people will die from the choices made today.

I am so sorry that we...

To My Children, Jordan and Megan,

I love our world and all it has to offer, which is why I feel so sad at the way we treat it. I've always tried my best to do my bit for the environment but many a time I feel overwhelmed by the enormous task ahead. I would loved to have been able to do more for the environment but that often felt out of my grasp, which was mainly due to never having enough money to do so. I...

My future self ,

There will be more green jobs especially for people from a Bame background. The Climate crisis will be taken more seriously and large corporations for example oil companies will no longer be running to the extent they are right now, they will come on board to finding alternatives to providing energy to the world that won't cost the planet. Clothes companies that contribute to...

To my future self,

How many people have died? How many people are suffering? Is it really as bad as they are saying? I want to believe it will all be okay; but I can’t. If only you could write a letter back and tell me what to do. How can I prevent it? Are my efforts well-directed, or am I barking at the moon? I guess I can only do my best – that much I can promise – even if it is futile...

To the future generations,

I hope that our government will have acted now, while we can, appreciating that while other problems our country faces are important and affect many, the climate crisis is the most important, simply because we don't have any more time, and the other problems will be irrelevant if we have no safe place to live, no food and water security, no viable planet. I hope that you will...

To my daughters, Catherine and Lizzy,

My dearest girls,

I so hope you're going to have the chance to grow up in a world that's as safe, beautiful and crammed with diverse life as the one I did. But I fear it's not to be so.

What a mess we've made of this lovely planet: and how sorry I am that it's your generation that will be picking up the pieces. You're going to need to be...

To my sister ,

Hey sister

How are you I'm writing this in 2022 in the hopes that life is much much better than is was for me.

Right now we have company and leaders who don't listen to what's vital or do don't do what's required. I hope in 2030 the world is not only still there but thriving and that as the future u was listened to by the change makers

To my son Oliver,

My mother was in the Greenham common protests in the 1980s the campaign against nuclear disarmament. I was just a child and I remember building a nuclear bunker for my dolls. I didn't want children because of this but I got pregnant and have loved being a mother. However with Climate change I think a lot of people are deeply concerned and conscious about global warming drought...

To my future descendents,

I am so sorry for all the time, energy & money I wasted buying the latest 'can't live without item '& quick & easy solution to a resolving a problem, as well as believing all the advertising lies & false information about the 'harmless ingredients' new gadgets contained. I am so sorry for leaving such a mess from the need to constantly have a bigger, better,...

My 1st grandson (due in January 2023),

To my darling grandson, ( & your mummy & Daddy)
I am so sorry that this earth is in such a state.
The leaders in my lifetime had lots of opportunity to not be greedy & cut omissions to slow global warming, but they chose profit over the world & every living thing in it.
Your grandad & I visited Kenya in Africa in 1991 just before your...

Grandchildren present & future,

Dear Grandchildren, I love you all so much & I'm so ashamed that the world is in a far worse mess than the one I inherited not so long ago. I've tried to do my best as you know, cycling, home grown fruit & veg, which I know you loved to pick & eat when you thought I wasn't looking!
We took you on litter picks on the beach & you were so enthusiastic about...

To my ghost, to urge her to forever haunt those who destroy the planet I love,

A nightmare vision drove me to campaign for years to stop oil drilling destroying the Isle of Wight, designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve for its diverse and beautiful landscapes and coast, unspoilt estuaries, dark skies, rare wildlife, ... In 2015, the Government issued licences for oil companies to drill over half of the Island, much of it designated Area of Outstanding...

Everyone, but especially via our political leaders and celebrity influencers, who need to de-conflict current messaging,

We each need to do a little less:
Eating meat
Travelling by carbon unfriendly fuelled vehicles, especially planes
Buying stuff which is made many hundreds or thousands of miles away

We each need to do a little more:
Paying tax to specifically help the poorest in the world avoid the worst of climate change related issues, to ensure the...

To my daughter Martha,

I hope by 2030 the leaders of our political systems will realise that climate change is real. I hope in particular that we in the UK will have the courage to no longer vote for the self-centred and spineless leaders who currently sit in our councils, in our Mayoral offices, in parliament (on both sides of the House of Commons) and the House of Lords. Because these people are...

To all the children not born yet, who we have failed,

I have watched as politicians put greed and growth above us, above future generation, above the planet, above everything.
I have watched as they allow corporations to suck the planet dry, ignore the warnings and fail to meet or enact any real change. They put money and profit above all.
They put themselves above all, even above their own children and...

Dear Future,

When you read history or maybe I should say, if you are there to read history (because I can see that you may not be), I hope you will see that quite a lot of us really wanted you to be there to read this. But at the time of writing, there were also quite a lot who said they agreed with us but somehow couldn’t bring themselves to do the right thing.

We kept...

To my daughter, Naomi, my nieces & nephew and all the children I have ever taught,

Dear Naomi and children of the 2000s,

When you were born 2030 might have seemed a long way off, but now in 2022, it's really not very long at all and yet I fear much will have changed by then. The Earth is a precious gift created for all and over the centuries we humans have made a pretty bad job of thinking about the future. We have used resources and destroyed...

To my sons, Josh and Sam,

I'm sorry for my my generation and most of those in power (political, social, cultural) at the moment. I'm sorry that we've known for decades about the mess that we're getting the world into and we've been so very slow to act, and greed and ego have won so many of the battles and resulted in increasing climate impacts and the general destruction of nature, as well as...

My apology to future incarnations of humanity, like myself,

You will be like me, you will live after me in what is my future and I will be of your past.

We are born of the same genepool, our brains are similar, you will think like me and you can see what I can see, I write to you as if to myself.

Dear friends I am so sorry. I tried to help them think. I tried to change their priorities. I tried to help my...

to my future self,

I hope people of the world have smartened up to stop climate change for the animals, for nature and for all of us.

My great great grandchildren,

Please don't think too unkindly of me, your great great grandma, or your great great grandpa. We tried - we really did. Lots of us are trying, we're writing to our politicians, going on marches, trying to be as environmentally friendly as we can, investing in the most ethical ways there are. Citizens around the world are all trying hard. It just seems our governments...

To my daughter,

I am really hopeful that we achieve a just transition for the climate as I think the world would be a much lovelier place. With no pollution, lots of nature and greenery. More birds and closer nature in cities, less poverty and more equitable resource distribution.
I hope we make it.

To my great niece Laila,

I want to make sure you are left a beautiful world with more trees, plants, birds, mammals,sea creatures and invertebrates than we have now and a less dangerous climate with fewer fires, heatwaves, floods and drought and I will do my very best to make sure the people in power take the necessary action needed to make this happen. I will also do my best personally to have the...

To my descendants,

Dear descendants,

I want to put on record how I feel about the climate crisis, it is the most important issue facing the world today. My hope is that you will read this and know that there were people, including your own ancestors, who cared about the world you would inherit and worked hard for its future..

I love the world and the world's...

To my five grandchildren ,

I want to apologise for the government not making the effort to combat climate change.
I want to apologise for all the governments who could make a difference not making the effort to combat climate change.
I want to apologise for all the CEOs of corporations putting profit before the health of the world.
I am profoundly sorry. I did what I could -...

To my great grandchildren, children of William, Emily, Florence and Imogen,

Dear darling great grandchildren,

I am sure your parents will have told you about all the efforts we made to try to preserve the planet as we had known t when we were children long ago. When I was a child we lived simply; it was after the Second World War. Life then was much simpler. Can you imagine a world without television or mobile phones? Many families did...

To the babies born in 2022,

I’m trying to imagine you at my age - 70 - and what sort of world you are living in, if you are fortunate enough to be alive still.
Scientists now say you will inherit a planet in which massive decline of species has taken place, swathes of land where people now live will be submerged, fires will rage, famine will have caused millions to leave their homes, millions...

to Clemmie, Arthur, Bea and the grandchild as yet unborn,

I want you to know that my lifestyle is the best it can to prevent climate breakdown. We have heard that our new prime minister has ruled against fracking but I feel there is so much more they could do but don't. In particular against fossil fuel companies who despite their protestations about efforts to be green continue to produce fossil fuels that should be left in...

Finn, Poppy, Lizzy and Felix,

Dear Finn, Poppy, Lizzy and Felix,

I'm writing to you about the climate emergency. We are already living with the consequences of the reckless expansion of burning fossil fuels over my lifetime, since 1937. We already see this in extreme weather events, floods, droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves. At 1.2 above pre-industrial levels We are already nearing the safe...

My four children ,

This generation of political leaders has failed to deliver the change that is needed to protect our planet. In spite of grassroot campaigns and great efforts, particularly by your generation, those in power do not appear to have the will or the moral courage to take the necessary action. Instead they pander to the views of some of the older generation, the fossil fuel industry...

Myself ,

Well, Hello!
I am hopeful that your health is good and you have now retired as you had planned. I hope that the leaders of the world have finally woken up to the reality of climate change and that there are now some serious plans in place to tackle it. I really also hope that things didn’t have to deteriorate too badly after writing this letter and that there were not...

To my fictional daughter, Cordelia,

Dearest Cordelia,

It seems strange writing this letter because you don't exist. I am thirty-eight and will never have children because I decided at the age of sixteen that bringing a child into a world experiencing climate change would be selfish and irresponsible and not morally justifiable given the future the planet and humanity faces.

I hope...

To my daughters Amber and Lia and grand daughter Rowan,

I am sorry that you are affected by the issue of climate change. I have tried for some 30 years to change the narrative and have actively campaigned against our government's inability to put in place mitigation.
I am deeply concerned that Rowan will not enjoy the same outlook on nature that we all have had unless something extremely difficult is taken in hand.

Our 'leaders'...,

Let's live our lives for the good of everyone, not for just the benefit of the rich and privileged. But most of all please lets have change to protect all the fragile eco systems and wildlife which we humans are devastating.

You, our leaders, have the power for change. Be brave and humane not ruthless and self seeking. In 100 years our leaders have overseen...

My son, Daniel,

Wow! Ten years old! I remember take you as a one year old on frost bitten bike rides up to Ashton Court to see the deer. We camped through the summer and spent whole days on the beach, although even then we had to plaster you in suncream to make sure you didn't burn. How things change.. Too hot now to leave the safety of the home when temperatures are hitting 40 degrees...

To my grandson Hugo,

I hope when you look back on your childhood you remember

A bee disappearing into a speckled foxglove flower;
Squirrels chasing each other through the apple blossom;
Fox cubs playing in the long grass, vixen watching on;
Damselflies swooping over the pond, iridescent blue.

If you cannot remember any of these things, it will be...

Our children ,

I hope you are enjoying life. There is so much to love and be thankful for.

Look after our world and the people in it. We are all here for such a short time, but we can each make a big impact on those around us.

Try to keep a global perspective, but take responsibility for your individual actions. I know you think carefully about the choices you...

To my self aged 89,

Dear Jennie
I have been feeling increasingly sad about the the state of climate change, biodiversity loss, extreme weather and how it affects all the people of the world. I hold on to the hope that our brightest and best will continue to come up with amazing solutions to change what looks so set to continue in the desperate trajectory. Yet right now in my heart I feel...

To my Great Grandchildren,

I hope when you are old enough to appreciate this wonderful world (as I know it) and in which you ought to be living, that you will be able to enjoy life without worrying about changing weather patterns, sea levels rising and hearing of the unimaginable storms that have plagued many of the foreign countries recently.

Everyone must make sacrifices and learn to...

To my grandchildren Lauren Gabriella Joseph and Daniel,

I love you all and want a better future for you to live your lives in. Please God and all good people that you will. To those who are fighting for a greener renewable future I salute you. Never stop - for all children and grandchildren everywhere.

To my future self ,

Greetings Future David of year 2223,
I am a previous incarnation of you.
I was born in 1945, Before climate change began to be noticeable. Living at the end of the pre- climate-change era and the start of the 6th mass extinction. I feel that I need to apologize very profoundly for the world that I handed down to you.
I wonder what your historians will...

To me,

Do you still have my favourite things?
-The night sky full of clear stars (not light pollution)
-Birds singing
-Hedgehogs and butterflies and bees
-Morning dew and that lovely rain smell
-Trees and woods and forests
-Snow and wintery days
-Actual seasons
-Penguins and polar bears and ice
-The smells of nature (not...

To Megan, my surrogate daughter,

Darling Megan, I know how scared you are, at your tender age of 28 and with your whole life ahead of you. I feel the same at the age of 63, and find that the idea of dying of old age is a thing of comfort - the world is so unstable and I can only think that climate change is going to get so much worse even in the years I have left.

I am terrified for your...

to my daughter, Eloise,

Dear Eloise,
I won't be here to see what happens to our beautiful planet in 50 years time, but I pray, and will pray for ever, that you survive the climate change which is coming, without in any way contributing to it. I know you love history, particularly stories about brave women, and I know you are brave too. I hope you will have a lovely green garden somewhere in...

To everyone,

Be kind to each other, friend or foe, we are all in this crisis together. No one should be doing anything that damages the life or livelihood of another, no matter where in the World they live, or how powerful or rich they are. Think "SOCIAL JUSTICE" for every action you take.

To my son, W,

Dear W,

You bring such joy to the everyone around you. At 2 years old, you are determined to explore and learn. Your curiosity and joy make my life brighter every day. And yet I fear for the day that you will discover how much the world is changing. I fear for the day that your heart will break when you realise that your future on this planet is uncertain. That...

To all non-human species,

To all species other than human, I apologise! You have evolved over millions of years to form a balanced ecosystem which has been self-fulfilling and sustainable yet, my species has been the climax which, in just a few millennia, has set in motion the decline and destruction of the whole system - too many of us are ignorant of the system we inhabit believing, arrogantly, that...

To those who are born this year,

I fear that, if we don't change course in the 2020s, your lives are going to be damaged and shortened by the climate change that we are perpetrating.

Some us tried to reduce CO2 (and methane) emissions by campaigning for fossil fuels to be left in the ground, by switching to sources of energy that generate less or no CO2, by using less energy, by investing in...

Dear Tomorow,

I'm not sure how far into the future you are. Like most of us now, I'm not sure what our future as human beings will be. I'm an old man now, and by the time you read this, I shall probably not be here. But I trust that my grandhildren will be... Before I leave this earth, I need to do all that is possible within my power to work with those arguing for urgent addressing of...

To my Descendants,

Dear Descendants,

The climate crisis is the most important issue facing the world today and I want you to know that I really care about sorting it out. My hope is that you will read this and know that there were people, including your own ancestors, who cared about the world God gave us.

I care for people all over the globe, especially the most...

To those born in this century,

I hope the world has acted on climate change. If not the mighty polar bear will be extinct. This is the first animal I remember seeing in captivity. Even as a young child I was horrified to see them pacing about in a small concrete enclosure. It was so obviously cruel. The argument, I was told, was that it would make people care about animals in the wild ! That really worked....

People born in 2022,

I went on protest marches, I wrote to my MP, I signed many petitions, I spoke to friends - all about the climate crisis and how global warming would be the end of civilisation as I know it today. I will continue to do this.

I did this for over ten years, as I understood what the scientists were saying and didn't believe the big oil companies. Still the leaders...

To my awesome kids,

I didn't bring you into this world for you to live a life where billions of humans suffer and die, and where people fight over the remaining capacity of the planet to support humans.

I hope that there are people in government who care about the people they represent and serve, and who will make the changes we urgently need.

I dream of a future...

To my grandchildren ,

As I write this, I am conscious of the struggle it has been to try to get enough people, governments and business leaders to take climate and environment seriously enough. I've been aware since about 1981 that there could be a problem with what we used to call 'greenhouse gases' insulating the world so that there'd be a build up of heat. I and others tried to respond to this...

An unknown child,

Hello.
This is my message in a bottle, to someone in the future. I don't know where it will be carried, by the Gulf Stream, if there is such a thing anymore. I hope you are a child, because my greatest concern is for children of the future. I am writing this in 2022, just before COP27, probably the World's last chance to prevent extreme, uncontrollable climate...

To Cousin Harry,

Hi Harry,
you are the youngest member of my family & I am worried about the future you now face.
Despite the warnings we all heard back in 1976 little has been done. Every new government that was elected since then hinted at helping the environment but nothing substantial came of it. They were & are only ever concerned with the short-term & getting reelected &...

Everyone,

This is terrifying. I desperately hope we can do enough to curb further devastating effects. I’m so sorry if it’s not enough

To my descendants,

Dear descendants,

I want to put on record how I feel about the climate crisis, it is the most important issue facing the world today. My hope is that you will read this and know that there were people, including your own ancestors, who cared about the world you would inherit and worked hard for its future..

I love the world and the world's...

To Planet Earth,

Dear Planet Earth or should I call you Gaia?
You coalesced out of star dust four and a half billion years ago, not too hot and not too cold, the Goldilocks planet. As far as we know the only planet to give birth to life. And give birth you did to tiny bits of life which over millions of years flourished into the amazing diversity we have today. Breathtakingly beautiful...

To my granddaughter, Lizzie,

I cycled into Lyndhurst in the New Forest yesterday from here, Ashurst, and as the choking traffic filled the air very close to me, zooming past me every ten seconds, I had a vision. There were no cars! But some electric small vehicles travelling along a narrow lane, and the rest of the road were cyclist. Many were on e-bikes, and many had children being pulled along in...

To the youth of tomorrow,

Dear Young People,
It is 2022 and the World is being destroyed by man's abusive use of it's natural resources minute by minute. We hear of and read warnings every day and stand at a crucial crossroads where every human and every government need to recognise the danger we are currently in and the disaster that yourselves, our future generations will be facing if urgent...

To my future self,

In 2030 I would like to see that radical action including stopping the use of fossil fuels has been taken in the eight years before 2030 to prevent an environmental catastrophe and that we are going in the right direction with regard to climate change. I hope that society has not collapsed and that you are not in the process of starving to death or have not already been...

To my Grandchildren ,

With all sincerity and good intention, I hope that it will not need to be said of us in the future that for our todays, we took your tomorrows.

To my children,

Andrew Emma Beth
I am writing to you from the future where our government took the decision just as the window was closing to commit to a zero carbon economy.
They invested in renewables, they invested in public transport, in communities taking charge of their own energy, and sustainable food production. Health improved due to reduced pollution, and a more...

To my youngest son Simon born 1997,

Dear Simon.

As a mother I was more upset than you can imagine when so many school and social events in your childhoods were ruined by floods and heatwaves even though we were living in Oxfordshire and then Wiltshire. I remembered my primary school days in the 60s when you could rely on sunny and dry Junes, lying in the grass making daisy chains on sports days...

To my children....to all children,

It's half-term as I write. We have been staying in an airbnb in the Cotswolds. We are one of the many fortunate ones who can do something like this with our family. Our children are in their early 40s.their children are under 10. The trees show off their glorious Autumn colours. All is well. Except that it is worryingly warm. At first we are pleased the rain is mostly holding...

Dear Ted my son,

I want you to live having a future of possibilities and a world free to explore. I want you be able enjoy diversity of nature, beauty and culture, I want you to grow up knowing that the future isn’t one you dread and fear. To know you can have children.

I want you to live in a country and a world where politicians strive for the best for all regardless of...

To my future self,

Did those in power step up and help save the environment? Have the UK stopped investing in fossil fuels? I hope that one day, our future will look more promising. That I will be able to look online and no longer see news articles highlighting the rapid decline of our world. That I will be able to see species who were once critically endangered now thrive in their natural...

To my granddaughter Mia,

We all need to pull together to take better care of our planet, she is the only one we have, and if we don't take better care of her now, future generations are going to struggle and
will not thank us for not protecting our precious earth, we need to put more pressure on goverments, they say they will take steps, but they are not doing so, they are not listening to us...

To my niece,,

You’re the first grandchild in our family, and your arrival in January is filling us all with joy and excitement. I hope with all my heart you made it safely.

It’s 2030 are 7 years old. Your lifetime representing momentous change. Governments came together in 2023 and swiftly acted to stop extracting fossil fuels, limiting warming to 1.5 degrees and at the...

To my sons Sam and Joe,

We are doing all we can to try and protect nature and the planet for you to be safe and well in the future and so that you are able to have your own children safe in the knowledge that their futures are protected too.

When we are no longer here we want you to remember above all that whenever you face difficulties, it is being in nature that can restore your...

To all my friends and family,

Please join me in urging all governments, particularly our own UK government to put climate change at the top of the list for investment, real focus and real change. We need to work to pass on a better place and a safer environment to the future and take responsibility ourselves for what we have caused in our lifetime that has contributed towards the huge increase in...

Lizzie, daughter ,

Dear Lizzie, I don’t know what life is like for you now with all that is going on with the climate. I hope you are part of the change for good as I have tried to be.
Climate change has affected many people and ecosystems on the planet. I have tried to act responsibly, I have not flown for over 20 years and you never did as a child. We have shopped for food in season...

To my beautiful grandchildren, Monty Wilf Bess George and Maggie,

We live in a beautiful world, a world you deserve to explore, learn about and cherish. Some of us have been trying for a very long time to protect it and warn our governments about the damage we have all been doing to it. I am sorry that we haven’t been able to make enough changes to our way of life and to find better, less harmful ways of living so that you can enjoy the...

To my Grandson Oli,

The world we live in now is very different to the one I grew up in especially the one concerning nature. As mankind has evolved we have been selfish and irresponsible in relation to other wildlife and our natural environment. This has resulted in loss of animal and plant species some of which are lost to us forever. Despite warnings to Governments around the world from...

To Lucy and Amy,

I know that I have said to you, that I wish that I had been proactive in preventing climate change many decades ago; you both said that I still would have been in a minority of people, who were just deemed as basically mad to think that our planet could be affected in such a way, that there would be a massive rise in temperature that would affect all life on this precious...

UK government,

It is tempting for over-worked politicians to allow climate change concerns to slip off the agenda. (Contrary to the normal barrage of stinging criticisms, I think most politicians are honest and attempting to improve the world).
About 30 years ago when concerns about global warming were becoming known among the general public, a record-breaking high temperature would...

Dystopian future (return to sender),

Looking back at the climate crisis, did we act? The earths health is declining and with that every living thing on this planet will decline with it. We need to stop, we need to act - now.

The worlds richest will be the last effected and yet the main cause. That's why we need world leaders to take control and make climate crisis their top priority. Many people...

My grandchildren,

Dear Grandchildren,
I am hoping that we have left you a planet in which you can enjoy all the privileges we have had. We were lucky to have had so much, an education, security, health, and enough to eat. Most of all we lived in a beautiful world and I was lucky enough to have a childhood surrounded by nature. When I was young we didn't know how much our way of living...

To My Beautiful Son ,

I've tried my darling. Organic compostable alternatives to plastic are available and can be used. The governments of the world know this, but unfortunately money and greed are more important to them. I have written letters, and signed petitions but without bold, brave decisions from the leaders of our world, change cannot be implemented. There are unlimited sources of energy...

To my grandchildren ,

For many years our planet has supported us in what ever we do giving us food and water and in return we have taken and taken and raped the earth of everything because of our greed we face not only extinction for ourselves but every living creature on it we have to stop being selfish stop polluting our oceans with our toxic waste and rubbish .we need to heal the earth...

To my grandchildren, Jamie, Emily and Katie,

I am so sorry that the world you are inheriting is in so much danger because of the profligate use of earth's resources. I am sorry that our generation has been part of causing climate change which is destroying habitats for the world's wonderful animals and insects and for the devastation this is causing for whole island nations. Grandad and I have endeavoured to live a...

To my grandsons John & Alex,

I have been worrying about our beautiful planet for many years now and long before you were born.

I want to do what I can to keep it beautiful and healthy so that you both can wonder, discover and enjoy its amazing miracles of life for yourselves.

But it is in big trouble now, because of our neglect, and the many natural wonders that are so rare...

Grandad to Jack and Ella,

On the visit of his Grandchildren to the seaside .
To find this place makes you dance with joy at being alive.
The walk through the woods to see sunlight sea, with the waves crashing onto the rocks,
and the roar of the pebbles drawn breakers will, uplift your spirits.
High overhead the gulls wheel and turn, and give out that singular cry of your...

To the children I chose not to have.,

We've made such a mess of this beautiful planet & spoiled it so much already. I'm 80 now & am so saddened by so much that has happened during my lifetime.
Politicians used to use the slogan "It's the economy stupid" to convince themselves that was what voters were only interested in. I know that not to be true & believe that it is an insult to most people the world...

To my grandchildren ,

Dear Grandchildren,

I am so worried about the kind of world you will be living in when you are 75 like me. I hope you know that I have done what I could to avert a catastrophe. This has included changing my own behaviour (probably not enough) and taking part in demonstrations to try to get governments to understand that this issue is more important than all...

To my future self Claire ,

Hello Claire!

If you're reading this, well done on surviving somehow. How on earth (literally) did you do it?!

I must admit, my 2022 self was full of apologies for not being able to prevent so many species - including humans - from going extinct and the planet itself imploding. Turns out recycling and writing to your MP just wasn't enough!!

Everyone alive in 50 years time,

Hello All,

If Climate Change is under control and not too much of a problem - well, thank goodness for that.

If you are suffering significantly because of it...well...I am very sorry. A lot of us tried and tried and tried to get those with the power and the money to do as much as the science told them was necessary. But, as of now (October 2022),...

To the descendants of Peep Peep, Sage and Snowey, ,

I really hope that you are there to read this. How are you? How are you surviving? Is there still fruit, worms and seeds to eat? Do you still have water? How are you surviving the long periods of extreme weather? Just how?

It wasn't your predecessors' fault. They did nothing wrong. They inspired me during dark times. They trusted me and came onto the kitchen...

To my partner Berni,

I am greatly worried about climate change and biodiversity loss. If human beings do not moderate their impact on the planet and quickly then it is inevitable that large swathes of what used to be liveable land will become uninhabitable by humans and other animals. Indeed this is already happening in areas where drought, wildfires, flooding and other extreme weather events are...

government in power ,

I want to say, can you do all you can for the climate change situation. The world is obviously suffering right now, with flooding and fires for example and people dying because of it. Think of the future generations, what will our world be like; say by 2030, 2040?
Please use your influence.
Thankyou

My 14 year old and 8 year old neices,

I am sorry that you are not going to experience the wonderful world that I knew as a child and a young adult. With the climate changing before our very eyes and the devastating effect this has had particularly this year 2022, with droughts, even more forest fires, melting of glaciers, floods and unprecedented famines. In retrospect this has been building for years and now we...

To my grandchildren, Eleana, Thomas, Noah and Isaac,

I hope for a world where there is peace among nations, where all energy comes from renewable sources, where power for transport does not come from dirty fuels, and where there is little use of plastic and far more reuse and recycling of everyday goods. The use of fossil fuels must be ended to save all creatures in the natural world, the human race and the planet itself.

To all those I leave behind,

The latest UN report says we have 9 years to keep our carbon emissions down to a level that will mean global heating will be around 1.5°C. By that time I'll be 79 and approaching my end of days I guess - and the thought of overstretched health services, weather bombs of various cause (heat, flood, drought) and general civil unrest from lack of food, water, and just personal...

To my great grandchildren (not yet born),

I wish you happiness and the freedom to love and appreciate the beauty of nature. The chance to walk the hills, swim in the oceans and rivers, play outside in the fresh air. My generation is in climate crisis because of the massive damage human beings have done to the planet. Governments and world leaders procrastinate and bury their heads in the sand instead of tackling the...

To our granddaughter, Rosie,

Dear Rosie,
Today, at one years old, you found out about the sheer delight of sitting in and playing in a big pile of colorful autumn leaves (from our field maple tree). You laughed and threw them and loved to see puppy Izzy careering in to join us. My very great hope is that you will be able to share that same joy with your own grandchild one day.
I do believe...

To future self,

Hello, how are you?
Are you still worrying about what to do now?
After all, it's been like this since a long time ago, hope the job you are doing is you favorite.
Although i don't know which country your are in now, but it must be your own choice.

Take care yourself

My Daughter Ava and Son Theo ,

To my darling children,
I want you to know I didn’t give up. I don’t know what the next 10 years will bring but I am not sitting back and doing nothing.
I’ve campaigned to stop glyphosate spraying in our area and have been successful. I’ve become vegetarian for the good of the climate and realised we can not continue on this cruel path with animals....

To my two dear granddaughters Vi & Ivy,

Though you are too young just yet to worry about what is happening to our planet, your home, I am concerned that we grown-ups are not doing a very good job of looking after it for you. What we have done in the past has often not been at all good. We have been selfish, choosing to do things only for ourselves, and harming the environment around us. Now we know better and have...

To the politicians of the future,

I don't know how things will be in the very near future, all I do know is that it probably wont be good. Those who have the power today to make things better do nothing but argue and quarrel. The world is not going in a good direction- ecologically, socially, economically, so you, leaders of the future, are the only people who have the power to change this. Take action, stand...

To my future friends and family,

I hope you're all doing well.
Right now I can't be sure and I don't know how your life's gonna be because we're in the middle of a climate crisis. The problem is that many people don't realise it and don't do anything to stop it. Even many governments still don't try to protect our planet.

So I hope your world is a nice place to live and you have...

To my Children ,

Fundamentally there is, and always will be, hope. Thank you for never giving up hope. It is this belief that - all will come right in the end - that steadies our resolve. If it is not right, then it can't be the end. Thank you for passing on hope to others too because it is like a virus, it spreads.

But as we know hope is not a strategy. In 2022 I wrote...

To my future self,

I am hoping and praying that the world that you live to day has managed to get it act together and opened its eyes to the injustice and inequality all around. I am hopeful that something can still be done and the world that you now live in has some promise that things will get better. At the moment the news seems to one bad thing after another, but I believe that there are...

To my future self,,

Well how’s life? How’s things going? Are things still the same? Do you still live where you used to or have you moved? Did you ever get that electric mint green fiat 500 with the pink stripe that you have longed for forever!? Did you finally visit Paris and have you started travelling the world bit by bit like you want to? Are you a teacher and what things are you...

To my son Tom,

Dear Tom,
It's my dearest wish that the world you find yourself in is the world I'd hoped for you, a world that recognises the fragility of life on earth, life worth fighting for. I hope that the changes and choices I made and the actions I took, however small, were not in vain and were a part of a mindset shift that ultimately changed the world for the better. I hope...

to my daughter lana,

hello lana

this is a letter from ur mother i hope your are safe love.
how is the weather is it as it is now heated with a cold breeze or is it worse, i hope the world is in decent shape i hear now that it wont be good in time to come from now but i hope it shine bright for you lana

love jane

To my family in the future,

I hope that the people in power have made the sensible choice.

We all know what must be done, but doing it seems to be a huge challenge. There's always another political crisis to distract from the big picture. I hope that our leaders have not turned their back on the progress so far, but built upon it.

The world is changing. I hope that we have...

To everyone in 2022,

Message from the future

You’ll be pleased to hear that we found ways to be self-sustaining when external inputs became unreliable which put us in a good place to cope with change.

How did we do it?

You don’t know it yet, but some of you were able to start community growing projects to bring food security to your areas, many of...

To my son, Sylvester,

Dear Sylvester,

This summer you noticed the black berries for the first time and as we walked through the Hollies, you delightfully cried 'Mummy!, blackberries!!!' We picked and ate them, you got blackberry juice all around your mouth. Along with Daddy, this became one of our favourite activities. We made an apple and blackberry crumble with a neighbours' apples...

To my daughter, whom I will never have. ,

Hello little one,

Currently, you only exist in my dreams. Dreams and spontaneous thoughts that consider your existence and are immediately followed up by a single thought.

Not on this planet, not under these conditions.

You see, I would love to be your father, and at the time of writing I am 33 years old, but it simply would be too...

To my daughter avaleigh,

Avaleigh

I’m writing this letter to let you know how important nature, and protecting your environment is to me. I want to protect it so you can live in a world of beauty, and be at peace with nature. I want you to have clean air, drinking water and live in a world where mankind works in harmony with nature.

We are currently working against the...

To all my grandchildren those already born and those born in the future.,

I do hope that the climate emergency has been tackled by now. I hope that everyone has played their part, ordinary people, politicians and world leaders. You children deserve to inherit a beautiful world with a diversity of species and an understanding of the connectedness of every living thing on this planet.
Rich people funding space exploration for themselves is not...

To my grandchildren: Alma, Archie, Emily Monty, Matilda and Annie,

Dear Alma, Archie, Emily, Monty, Matilda and Annie,

I am writing this letter to the politicians who make the decisions that affect what sort of world we live in. Of course they're not the only people who can do things to change things for the better, you can too, but they do have the power to make changes that can have quite an effect for better - or worse. My...

To my beloved boys, Elliot and Oscar,

I want you to know that I tried to fight the good fight for you, to do all that I could do save this precious planet we are gifted with from God. Your Dad watches me with a mixture of despair and admiration as I produce endless new recycling pots and boxes, switch lights off constantly, turn thermostats down and enforce vegetarianism on the family. And you will hopefully know...

My future families ,

Hi all, l hope you and your generation have the beauty of a healthy inheritance in nature, of greenery, different climates and all that we used to enjoy. With weather and creatures that amaze and astound you, that you respect and all of which you care for, in the present and for future people to come.
However you do it - keep understanding that all of that is the...

To those growing up in the Twenty First Century,

Dear Children and Grandchildren,

I hope that you are keeping well; and are living in a peaceful world.

I hope that the computers are behaving themselves.

Don't forget to think for yourselves ! Always.

Are you able to keep a garden or allotment ? Keep on tending the soil; and also of course loving one another. Treat...

To David & Hannah. My grandchildren,

As you know from our walks together I loved looking at wildlife, the seals at Rye Harbour, the dippers at Aberdulais and the butterflies and flowers anywhere and everywhere.

I hope that my generation's efforts both personal and in pressurising our politicians mean that our natural world survived and that now you can still enjoy your walks with your...

My grandsons Zeki and Jasper ,

I hope with all my heart that you have a greener brighter future.
The politicians refused to listen and didn't take care of our planet 😢

Love Nan ❤

To my son William,

I've had many wonderful moments interacting with the natural environment. I want you to have the same.

To my friends and family,

I’m writing to you whilst imagining myself in the future, cooking you all a big family meal. There’s no freeze-dried space food here, just delicious local-seasonal food grown with respect for the Earth and its oceans.

Because in the future I hope we will have modernised our food systems to work in harmony with nature, not against it, as much conventional...

To my grandsons,

Sometimes I think about the kind of world you will be living in ten, twenty or thirty years from now. I worry about the effect the changing climate is having on so many things - the wildlife you enjoy, the food you eat, the work you'll do, the places you'll want to visit. You know that I am passionate about supporting the farmers in the developing world who grow our tea,...

To tomorrows' generation,

I am your previous generation that out of arrogance and self-interest dismissed the call of nature that was shouting loud, HELP, HELP, you are killing me. I am so, so, ever sorry to leave you with the consequences of our ignorance and deafness. I sincerely hope that we have not left it too long to the point of no return. Nature be with you, look after it even if we didn't to...

To my dear granddaughter Bella,

You mean so much to me Bella and this note is to tell you how much I want life to be good for you in the decades to come. I’m writing this in October 2022 while feeling a lot of despair about how the world governments are NOT dealing with the huge climate catastrophe which is ahead of us.

Grandma and I do our best to use less fossil fuels and to care for our...

To my future self,,

I do not want to forget how I feel right out about the state of the planet and world, I hope to see actions taken to tackle climate change so that the world will be the best to live in for everyone.

I hope to start my own family soon and raising my children. I don't want them to be scared of droughts and flood that gets worse over the years in the world. I hope...

To my Grandson James,

Dear James
We have been hearing a lot recently about glaciers shortening, sea ice melting and everywhere getting warmer. Forest fires, droughts and my garden not able to produce what it could a few years ago. This was not such a problem when I was young although I did not like the cold winters, snow could be fun. It is not fun that so much is going wrong so fast. We...

To my grand daughter Rosalina,

I wish you a future where people are equal, countries adopt green programmes, welfare in health, education, fair distribution of wealth characterise all countries and we prioritise fair trade products.

To The Future,

Dear Tomorrow,

With Intense Apologies for the Mess that I have made of the Planet.

Please look after our Precious Planet better than I have done.

Very Sincerely

Dr Tony GREENWAY

Tomorrow,

Save world

To everyone living with the worst effects of climate chaos I,

I am so sorry that our lack of committed action over the years has caused you so much pain.
My fervent wish is that we will honour promises made,enabling funding to go to all of you so you can use your expertise where you live to transform chaos into hope .

To my beautiful great granddaughter, Madison ,

You were one month old on Friday and I fear for your future. For generations we have all been poor stewards with the world’s precious resources. I would like to think that all governments will now take the opportunity to really get to grips with climate change. We have had so many warnings, red hot summer days here in the UK, floods in many other countries. High winds...

To my 4 grandsons, Olly, Dan, Sonny and Oscar,

Dear Olly, Dan, Sonny and Oscar, our wonderful grandsons,
Everyone with any common sense and knowledge knows that action on climate change is very urgent. You 2 big ones certainly know this and although you 2 little ones are too young to know about it you will certainly live with the consequences.
It is our duty to do what we can to persuade the politicians to...

To my nephew ,

We need to care about climate change

To my future self,

I hope 2030 is going very differently to 2020.

I hope my friend Pakstan, in Cambodia, isn't still worrying about her crops being flooded and destroyed each year.

I hope my friend Segondu, in the Amazon rainforest, isn't still worrying about having no fish to eat because oil spills are killing his main food source in the Amazon river.

To the future inhabitants of this planet,

Support the earth with love and gentleness, do not exploit it, share it and respect those who use it to feed and sustain us all. Make it fair and sustainable so we in the future can all be fit from our work.

My future self ,

I really hope that the people in power have finally listened and took action so that our next generation do not have to live with their huge failings.
The climate crisis is already here and affecting our lives now and this is our last chance to sort it out.

To my greatnephew Rúben, ,

Dear Rúben,

At 4 months old, you are still new to the world, a world I want you to be proud to be a part of.

The world I wish for you, Rúben, is a world where people, animals and plant life thrive safely in a peaceful, harmonious environment with no threat to their survival. A world where crops can grow to feed you, where insects can thrive to...

My Grandson Elijah ,

Hello my boy …

I’m writing this letter to you so that you’re aware of the injustice about TRADE & how by buying FAIRTRADE products is one way we can help those around the world earning a pittance because they’re not part of the mega rich TRADE partners!

Please always be AWARE of this as well as other injustices around our beautiful...

To my granddaughter Emma,

My dearest Emma.

I am writing this letter because I really hope by the beginning of the 2030s the trajectory regarding climate change is a positive one. I hope my and your mother’s generations have managed to influence the government to act by, not destroying nature and, supporting farmers to look after wildlife and, not putting wealth first over natural...

Descendants ,

Dear Descendants

Climate change is the most important ethical and political issue facing us now in the 2020s. It is affecting the whole world but floods, droughts and famines are disproportionately affect the world’s poorest and most marginalised people in the Global South. These are people who are least responsible for climate breakdown.

50...

My niece Florie,

I am hoping we all see sense so you get to live in a greener, fairer world where many fish swim in the sea and plastic products are banned.
The use of Eco energy rather than fossil fuels, and the need for some to be too wealthy whilst many are so in need.
Wishing you a future in a more compassionate place with less greed and ignorance.

People of goodwill ,

Renewable energy companies and their customers should be rewarded not punished with high prices and extra tax on renewable companies.
People make conscious decisions to choose renewable energy, which since that is what everyone needs for the health of themselves and the planet, should be rewarded. We need to encourage people to get renewable energy and people have less...

The skylarks of Warren Farm who saved my sanity during Lockdown,

Remember those early days of Lockdown when the human world had stopped? Trapped in the drudge of "permitted daily exercise", I circled the park past its taped up benches. Then, one day, beyond the canal and the industrial estate, I found a wide open meadow, full of speedwell and buttercups and I saw you fly.

Remember how warm it was and how those thermals...

To those in charge ,

I am a 68 year old woman, and won’t be around to see the how the destruction politicians are planning will impact our planet
I have no children or grandchildren
But I am still concerned about our rivers pouring sewage into our seas
Of plastic choking our oceans
Of forests being burnt and destroyed to make way for palm oil and cattle
Of...

To my children, Arthur and Henry,

In 2030 you will be men in your 20's. You already have questions about the world we live in now. You once said Arthur why can't the billionaires just all give in their money and then we divide it out so everyone has enough.
I know as you get older these questions will get more complicated. We support a football team funded by the UAE.
There are things...

To my children, Joshua and Charlie,

As a family we have reduced our single use plastic, recycled religiously, reduced our fossil fuel usage and spent weekends beach cleaning.
I hope all of this was enough.
I hope climate change is starting to reverse and that the global temperature has lowered.
I hope that the animal and plant kingdoms are flourishing and that are seas are full of wildlife...

To my daughter,

To my hunney,

I am sorry. You had a great childhood and you grew up so positive, so excited about your future. I let you build plans and expectations, all the while writhing inside as climate breakdown unfolded and our safe predictable planet rapidly starting changing before our eyes. I let you enjoy a normal life, a carefree life, while knowing that your future...

To all future generations,

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a Bluebell Wood or a Woodland in the Autumn and through out all of the Seasons. Listening to the dawn chorus or listening to bird song on Summers's afternoon in the Countryside and all of this and much more and I hope you are hearing and seeing it too. If you are not and you have been reduced to reading about our natural world in a...

To my friend casey,

We need to take action now because if we carry on taking our environment for advantage the world will start to seriously suffer over the decades. Even though some of us here now have created the problem we won't really have to live with it, it will be our grandchildren and maybe even your children will have to deal with the consequences of your actions. So hopefully if we...

To future generations,

I am writing to you on this year 2022.
Heat waves, climate change, drought, but as well floods and heavy storms, decline of all biodiversity (animals and plants), deforestation, overfishing, pollution of all kinds on earth, in the air, in all waters (rivers, lakes, oceans …), and more … have become part of our daily life.
Yes, mankind has succeeded in...

To Trissie, Lea, Leo, Toby, Lorcan and more (our children),

You are all in your mid-twenties now, thriving and still living in London. We are so glad you are still around the corner from your mums and we get to see you regularly. And we are even more excited that none of you have asthma now because London’s air is no longer polluting its residents. But there was a long period – 2017 until 2022, when you were babies and small kids...

To my son and daughter, Jasper and Dorrie,

I hope we get to 2030 realising that 2022 was a turning point, when we realised the danger that man-made climate change and biodiversity loss was critical, and civil society turned on an uncaring government run for profit, not for the planet.
Millions of people across the country have been waiting for leadership to build a better, low-carbon future. It's great to see...

To my future self,

I hope that climate change hasn't destroyed our beautiful planet. Humanity is ruining the only earth we have and it terrifies me. At the moment, climate change is concerning me. We are polluting our air with greenhouses gases, causing global warming. Temperatures are rising and ice is melting. The ice melting is negatively affecting some of the animals on our planet. They are...

To me,

Well, have we made a difference?
Has the world become a better place?
I hope so as I hate to think what the world will be like if we haven't learnt our lessons from the past.
Are we blind or just stupid that we can't see what is staring us in the face. I get so cross when I hear politicians cutting taxes hoping that this will appease peoples concerns. ...

To my children Archie and Arabella,

I hope that you are living in a world as beautiful, or more so, as the world today. I hope that people have enjoyed and looked after nature in the way I have tried my best to teach you to do so.
I want you to live in a world without litter, without over-pollution and over-population. I want you to live in a world where everything isn’t just consumed but is replaced/...

To the future Generation,

protect clean air, not just locally but globally. Protect clean air. Don't let them burn woods or pollute the air you have to breath, otherwise you will suffer ill health and the NHS will also suffer. Be Kind.

To my darling Son,

I will not always be here to protect you my darling but, I have a chance right now!
As you grow, I promise to protect our/your home, our planet!
As your loving mummy, I will do all I can to provide you with a life full of promise, on this beautiful planet x Always x

To generations of the future,

Nature and the environment is precious. Apart from beauty, it is good for mental well being and deserves to be protected and nurtured. Once it's gone, it's gone. Embrace it.

To my darling sons,

I’m sorry that so many of my generation and those in generations before me thought that it was ok to plunder this beautiful earth, use up so many of her resources, pollute the oceans and rivers, chop down billions of acres of forests, and cause the extinction of so many animals and plants. I’m sorry that the planet earth you and your children will live in will be so...

To all my friends and family with kids,

I'm lucky to have lived in a golden age (born early sixties) but even so I've been aware of the destruction of the earth for over 40 years - pollution in the air, rivers and seas, rainforest destruction, wild habitation destruction, over consumption etc etc. It's frustrating that we've known for so long that we needed to change our priorities and live better - to measure...

Laurence Robertson MP,

Please Encourage the Govt to take as many steps as possible to help with climate change.
Having no children i really have no dependents to worry about but i still worry for future generations.
Hoping you do too.

To My 74 Year Old Self,

I'm nearly sixty-four years old as I right this letter, I don't know if you will read this, or one of our wonderful friends will.

I've been trying to reduce our carbon footprint as much as possible for nearly twenty years. Of course you know about the trees we paid to have planted. I hope our giant sequoia is growing well.

I hope that the double...

To my son,

Just a few words I’m putting down to explain how we managed to turn things around with the climate and biodiversity crisis of the 2020s.
Luckily we managed to pull together as a species across the world and took steps to mitigate and where possible reverse the damage we had and have caused.

We harnessed the power of the wind, waves, tides, sun and the...

to my sister Anne,

We are both of an age where we have seen incredible changes in every aspect of the world. We have been fortunate to visit other countries and learn about different cultures which has helped us to appreciate our environment.
But what will happen in the next few decades?
The future isn't written yet, so we all need to come to an agreement on how to keep, preserve...

To my children and grandchildren ,

I'm so sorry that this planet is warming so much more quickly than we can mitigate effectively. Achieving net zero at 2050 seems unachievable and is still too late. Adaptation is the only hope we have now. It breaks my heart to think of what environmental losses and species extinctions will occur over your lifetimes. Even worse is the thought I have not done enough to protect...

To anyone who wishes a tomorrow ,

In life, I ride my bike to the highest points I can find. I watch the sunrise and marvel that it brings life to all around.

Don't mourn me after I'm gone. Go watch the sunrise. You're privileged to see the dawning of each new day. I will be with you in spirit.

Nurture life, your loved ones and right throughout the world. Respect the ground on...

To all my great-nephews and great-nieces,

You are all very young, and so not at all to blame for the damage that my generation, and later ones, has done to the climate and to nature. We have poured our waste and pollution into the seas and oceans, into the lakes and rivers, into the soil, and into the air we all breathe. We have killed off species after species of animals and plants, chopped down and burned down whole...

To my precious adult children, Jessica and Sam,

You will know Dad and I care about the world we presently live in, a world that is your and your future children's future.

Every time we need to replace something, whether it be cleaning materials or furniture for the home we recycle, reuse, upcycle or replace with a more eco-friendly item, to the best of our knowledge.

We wish that the future...

The politicians that stand small,

Shame on you! Our beautiful planet is beautiful no more. Our fragile ecosystem, awash with joyful life has been damaged beyond repair. Shame, shame, shame on you!!!

Despair.

To my children,

Dear children,

I don't know nt want your children or their children to have to stay inside all the time to avoid the terrible heat or other extreme weather or pollution. I want them to be able to play outside like you did.

I want them to have secure food supply, not be flooded out of their homes not be caught up in water wars.

My grandchildren as yet unborn,

I want you to live in a world where it's normal to value nature in all its amazing beauty, and where it will go without saying that you will leave the natural world stronger at the end of your life than it was at the beginning. It's my duty to work for this change of attitude in society now, and I pledge to you, my dear ones, that I will try my hardest to do this.

Kathleen Bishop,

I hope when we are both retired that the World will have woken up and is actively tackling the Climate Crisis responsibly, seriously and with real vigour . Not just hot air and gestures.

To my family ,

At the age of 52 I have witnessed the decline of nature around me for many years. They call it shifting baseline; each generation is used to the biodiversity that surrounds them at the time, and we were saddened but kind of resigned to its seemingly inevitable depletion. Growing up in rural Dorset for my first ten years, farmers would spray crops from the air, the toxic...

My nieces and nephews ,

To my beautiful nieces and nephews

We have known since I was a school girl that our way of living leaves a lasting impact on the environment around us and the wider world.

As a family we have made decisions and adjustments to reduce our impact and protect the nature around us. We hope by showing you this as you grow up you will live better lives...

My nephews, Saul and Zane,

I can't imagine what the world is like in your future. I know your mother raised you with a great respect for the beauty of nature and loved exploring the great outdoors with you.

I hope as you've grown and things have happened in your life, like higher education and even jobs, you've kept just a little of that excitement, wonder and energy that you both have...

To my children,

I hope you can forgive the mess we're making of this world it takes far too long to stop the crazy Train from reaching the end of the track. We should be doing so much better. But I have faith in you and your generation to right those wrongs and elect governments who put the environment above all else. During the late 20th and early 21st century we thought we could have it...

To children of the future,

Dear Future Reader.

Sorry. Sorry that my generation has presented you with a legacy of plastic pollution. Today it is predicted that there will shortly be more plastic in the sea than fish. I fear that you are reading this in a world where this prediction held true. When I was 14 in 1974, I did my first beach litter pick. Little did I know that in 2022 every...

My dearest grandsons Oscar and Dougie,

Today is October 2022 but I am writing to you in the future, in 2030. In that year I will be 74 and you will be 18 and 9. As I write now the climate emergency is getting ever more scary. I am scared. Warnings about how long we have to halt the damage and prevent a 6th mass extinction grow more and more urgent every day. Only recently Pakistan suffered disastrous flooding and...

To young people voting for the first time, anywhere in the world,

Lets change our future from possibly Awful to hopefully Awesome.

Science has been clear about the TRENDS in our environment and climate. Now, the daily news gives us the strongest warnings about IMPACTS on people and planet, everywhere.

So what to do? These impacts may become bad tipping points, difficult to predict or control but It is not too...

To my grandchildren,

The environmental crisis is the main problem that we have at present in 2022. This should not be your problem to address still by 2030, so governments and individuals need to act now and act seriously to avert disaster. You children, who are understanding the issues, need to keep pushing we adults to act. I pray that you will not inherit a total environmental disaster and that...

To my grandson Harry and granddaughter Ellery,

I am so sorry that my generation couldn’t make our elected representatives understand the urgency for them to look at how best to protect the planet for you. I apologise for those who just don’t care.

I hope by the time you read this renewables and recycling are commonplace and your generation has taken over and have shrunk the have and have not gap.

To those in the future ,

My hope for you is that we did the right things now.

I hope we abandoned our ‘slash and burn’ approach to this planet.

I hope we learned to put people before profit.

I hope the wildlife we had is still yours.

I hope we reduced traffic and cleaned up the air.

I hope the few who have so much helped...

To my Great-niece Livia,

My dear, lovely Livia.
I love your fun-loving and happy personality. Seeing pictures and videos of you dancing gives me such pleasure and joy. I hope you have a long, happy and fulfilled life, whatever you do when you grow up.
I know you enjoy tine spent in your local parks and when you visit beautiful places like the seaside, and woodland, but I am worried. ...

To my granddaughters,

I want you to be able to hear birdsong as you grow up. I want there to be vast spaces for wildlife to thrive, where you can go for country and coastal walks. I want rewilding to flourish for you both to see & enjoy the diversity & beauty of nature.
I want you to be able to swim in the sea and look at fish swimming in our lakes and rivers, for the water to be...

Descendents or Descendents of Siblings,

Dear Offspring / Offspring of siblings,

Whilst I was around in the 2010s and 20s I did what I could to change the environment for the better. Let me explain.

I realise I was consumptious of resources and contributed to greenhouse gas emissions perhaps the most by flying long haul once a year at most, for not good enough reason. Perhaps going to...

To old me,

The world is fabulous. Even London has amazing greenery and wildlife.

Let's not burn it down or stuff it up

To my daughters Emma Heather, my family and friends,

Although I do not have the chance of seeing your future (my age and cancer are against this happening) I want you to know that I have tried for the last 40+ years to help make a better planet for you to live on. As a vegetarian for 42 years and supporting Greenpeace from my early 20s. Working to support scientists who monitor sea level rise and the Arctic ice depletion.

To Eliza and Phoebe, two of our great-nieces,

I hope that by 2030 all our family will still be having fun trying to support wildlife in our gardens, as well as growing more food. I hope we will all have greener heating systems and cars. I am sure you will still be doing lots of walking where you live, looking at the plants and animals. Your clever Mummy will still be sewing you beautiful clothes, as well as reusing...

The Parliaments,

The Prime minister should please look into the climate change and help us to solve the problems quickly. Thanks

To my sons Ben and Joe,

I am sorry we didn’t push for change sooner but I hope it has been enough to avert climate disaster now. I hope that you are able to enjoy this wonderful planet without fear of low air quality, extreme weather and constant doom in the press. That the world’s leaders finally reached agreement to avert climate disaster by putting the interests of people and nature before...

To everyone,

When will I have a future actually worth living in? Where your value and life isn't defined by your job but by what you want to do and have achieved

To my children,

I am getting a little old now, and I know that my generation has had it very easy, with rising living standards across the planet. But in that time, we have lost sight of the most precious resource of all - our planet. We need to do everything we can to cherish and nurture it, and climate change is the most important issue of all in that respect. And so, in everything you...

To my son Dylan,

I am hoping for a bright future for you and for all of your generation. You deserve it. I want you to be able to enjoy, and to live in a world where there is access to green spaces and nature, alongside the more basic resources like fresh water, sustainable food and safe places to live. I hope that you can walk in woods and enjoy the sea in the way I have been able to do. This...

To my daughter Rosie and son Rowan,

It's 2020 as I write this you are 2 Rosie and Rowan is nearly 6. Rosie has nearly been home a year and has been through so much in her short life already.

And whilst now we enjoy a happy life together as a family, I fear the future holds worse for you both, and all your cousins and their children. Maybe by the time you read this in the year 2030 some of your...

The elected government ,

Letters to tomorrow, seriously?
I would prefer a letter for today, now, yesterday!
I don’t mean to pass the buck on to politicians who are also human, but we have known about climate change etc for longer than my whole lifetime, and I am not aware of any sort of action or genuine responsible approach to it from any uk government. I read the news that the...

To my children ,

I am writing this letter today in the hope those in power will do something urgently to address climate change. We have beautiful plants which simply won’t be around when you have your own children. We all owe it to them to fight against climate change.

Love, Mum x

Our torties,

I hope that our back yard will always give you enough .

Grandchildren to be,

I hope you are thriving have opportunities & can enjoy the beautiful countryside, valleys, hills, meadows, streams, rivers & seas of the UK. I hope the birds, butterflies and wildflowers are in abundance. & the rolling views are there for you to enjoy
I hope this country has finally embraced energy saving buildings & you are safe & warm.

To my children and grandchildren ,

This is such an important issue, every day I strive to do more to help campaign for climate action and nature.
Whilst you are all busy with your lives and I have more time these days, I really feel that I'm striving for you all.
As you all know, in my life I am continually searching for new ways to live sustainably with PV panels, insulation, recycling, growing...

To you,

Hello unborn child, I’m sorry I never had you but I could never have you under a clear conscience that I was bringing you into the world we live in.

Money talks and businesses and politicians all line their pockets with it instead of trying to make any real difference.

This is a world of billionaire show offs that don’t seem to register their...

To the next generation, in 2050,

I would like to hope that by 2050, the world has done enough to avoid catastrophic global heating, and even that the situation is looking rosy; governments the world over went green; turned to renewable energy; insulated their countries and rewilded lots of land; big businesses grabbed the environmental opportunities; and lots of people forsook flying; went eco; went vegan;...

To my Hari,

You aren’t physically with us any more but I I know you would have loved the weather today. The wind blew like a banshee and you would have grinned and laughed and held your head high. You wouldn’t have liked the heat we had this summer - the changing climate is reaching higher temperatures and even though you are not physically here any more, I know you are still with us...

To my Daughter, janine and my grandchildren ,

Dear , future
I want to see future for every human and life on the earth with 20 years from now no pollution, in our beautiful sky's, no floods every country on earth has gone green ,Costa Rica has already we all need to follow quickly,
No nuclear weapons in our world no wars , no poor people everybody with millionaire's and billionaire's all giving and...

To my daughters Holly and Meg and my expected grandson and any future grandchildren.,

Holly and Meg, my adult daughters, and future grandchildren, here in 2022 I am seriously concerned about the future of humanity on our planet. Governments serve their self-interests and those of, for example, fossil fuel companies. Our earth is facing a global climate emergency but action is too slow and too late, I expect that tipping points will be passed and the world as I...

To my nephew, Francis,

Dear Francis
I know how much you love wildlife, especially bugs. I know you are only 12, but it would be great to think that creatures like insects and spiders would thrive throughout your lifetime. However, it looks like that won't be the case and lack of invertebrates affects all other forms of wildlife. We need more pollinators, not less. There were far fewer...

To the future,

I am so sorry.

More than 30 years ago we started campaigning on climate change - making penguin suits for a climate march of all things. Everyone knew about the science back then. Since our family has tried to live a sustainable life and promote greener living but the way things are going, no one with any influence listens and nothing of any great significance...

To my Granddaughters, Skye and Cora. ,

I love you and you are the bright shining stars in my existence.
My life has been spent with natural beauty, plenty of bird song and woodland wild life. I fear that your lives will be spent in times bereft of bird song and an woeful lack of wildlife.
We are missing the opportunity to slow down this horiffic abuse of our polluted and profit led world. I prey...

To my children,

I am writing this letter to you both in the desperate hope that life has changed a huge amount in eight years. I hope with all my heart that we have a government who understands and has been able to act on the reality of the climate emergency with the urgent response that is necessary. A government who has embraced the need for housing insulation, new housing built with non...

To Sid Morrie and William my son and nephews ,

I hope that the world which you find yourselves living in today is a beautiful as the one I grew up in, although I fear it will be a very different place. Quite honestly, when I really think hard about what kind of future you and your children are going to have to deal with, it terrifies me.

I am so sorry that no one listened - we could have acted, we could have...

My children,

I would like to see this world for you as better,cleaner and brighter.Renewables would be used throughout the world and fossil fuels excavation and extraction illegal and this is monitored using artificial intelligence. Electric cars with carbon capture technology and all modes of transport will be the norm.I would like petrol and diesel illegal so old cars can be scrapped and...

To my grandchildren,

Hi both,
I look at you now full of teenage preoccupation and innocence. Your lives are unfurling and full of anticipation for the future. I hope to be around in 10 years to see you develop but am full of concern which I hold in. What I want to see happen is for lots of people to come together and demand change in major institutions so much so they can no longer be...

To my future grandchildren ,

When I was a young girl, I lived by the coast. On day, scrambling around slippy rocks, I fell in to the sea. The waves dragged me out. The waves slammed me back in against the jagged rocks.
And I suddenly realised how fragile and puny I was against raw nature.
And yet, in my adult life, I followed society...insulating myself from nature (run the heating full...

To my grandchildren, Sophia (age 8) and Luke (age 5),

Dear Sophia and Luke
I just want to wish you both very happy and successful lives. I know this may seem a crazy dream at the moment, with so much to do to save our beautiful planet.
You have already started to help by doing litter picks on the way to school and on any beach we visit. Unfortunately, we have visited very few beaches this year as they have been...

To my grandson, Ethan ,

My Dearest Ethan,
First of all, I feel I must apologise for the mess you were born into. My generation came up with and invented most of the things, that we've since found out are catastrophic to the climate and world around you. All I can say is that we did it thinking that the world would be a better place for it; by no means destroy it!! The summer before you were...

To future generations,

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry you won't get to see and experience the Earth I know, with its beautiful diversity.

I'm sorry we didn't act in time, even though we have known for decades that we were causing global warming.

I'm sorry that corporate greed won over creating a fair and sustainable world.

I'm sorry that you have...

To my darling Grandson, Ruan,

Hello Darling,
This may be hard to hear in places but I hope that the knowledge means we as a species start to acknowledge our wrongs and that this letter can give you hope.
Your Nana is trying her best to help re-write the story our species has written so incorrectly. Humans were given mindsets that celebrated the gathering and storing of wealth and...

Dear Moon & Diddy (my grandchildren),

To my darling grandchildren, I hope that your future is full of life and happiness.
To help our world and mother earth, we need to keep our sea and rivers clean from pollution. Stop chemical waist being dumped just anywhere. Use less plastic.
Spend our taxes wisely and stop flying to the moon, we can't live there!
Stop paying, the already rich, high...

To my amazing grandchildren,

You are very precious to me. You have brought joy to my life, but that joy is now tempered by grave concern for your future. How I wish that we humans had taken better care of the world that you are so busy discovering. I hope that by the time you read this, humanity has woken up and taken decisive action to limit global warming and protect precious wildlife and...

To our children,

I know that protecting our planet is the single most important thing to do. If we don’t do this we will make it a horrible place for our future generations. We will lose all the wonders that Mother Nature provides. We will be sick and we will eventually destroy our planet.

I am ashamed to say that humankind has become toxic to our planet. I don’t want this...

To my grandchildren, as yet unborn,

I wish you all the joy in the world, and all the joy the world has to offer.

I have lived a rich and fulfilling life, too young to go to war, too old to see the demise of the planet. If you are reading this the world's leaders, bumbling procrastinators as they have been till now, will have finally faced up to the most fundamental issue: urgent steps to halt...

To anyone listening ,

I have always thought that man is violent.
We battle against self destruction every day.
Nature is beautiful. It looks good, feels good, tastes good.
What is there not to love about it?
But we don’t love it, we don’t nurture it, we don’t protect it.
We kill it just like we kill each other.

To my nephew, Cormac,

I want the world you're now living in as you head towards your adult life, to be full of hope and love, with our politicians committed to a vision of sustainable life on earth, and for us all to have a renewed sense of responsibility and stewardship for our environment.
I see less and less people eating meat every day or even every week, and our food security and...

To future children ,

Before humans existed, there had been 5 mass extinctions (where almost all species on Earth were
lost). It is distressing to consider the extreme likelihood that the potential 6th mass extinction, looming over our heads, could be caused by us humans taking more than we need. Put plainly, our selfishness and lack of care is the asteroid that is currently causing people...

My future self,

Hello Mark,
Did you keep to the silent pledge we made to ourselves to do all in our power to reduce your carbon emissions?
I hope and expect you did.
I hope others did the same and that in a small way you influenced them to take similar steps.
Above all, I hope there is still a natural world to behold and wonder at. Take care of yourself.
Mark

To my neice, Joanna,

I hope that you are growing up in a world where natural disasters are a rarity so that you do not have to witness the suffering of humans in vulnerable communities.

I wish that you are in a world full of wonder for the variety and abundance that it holds. That you get to look up to see a cloud of butterflies overhead and hear the beautiful sound of a morning...

To my Granddaughters Rose and Holly,

I am so sorry that you are now living in a very different world. The fact that 100's of millions of people are no longer able to survive in their homelands means that they will need to share the habitable regions with you. The climate that nourished us as you were growing up will now be punishing you with extreme events that are continuously affecting your lives and...

To my grandchildren ,

Dear Grandsons and Granddaughter,
When you were 11, 8, 6 & 5 years old respectively the World, Earth the planet you and everyone lived in was in great danger. The activities, mainly the industrialisation, fuelled by fossil organo-carbon reserves, of many generations, including mine, had changed the world’s climate. This caused terrible floods, drought, fires loss...

To my beloved future children,

With much concern I am writing this letter to you beloved children.
Do you know our human activities has a direct impact on the climate and our natural inhabitant?
I am so concerned about the rapid changes taking place these days and wishing you will be able to enjoy some of the "privileges" I had growing up, interacting and enjoying the full benefits of my...

To my daughters, ,

Nowadays, when I look at a small child, instead of feeling happy, my heart fills with dread.
I envisage their probable future. Drought, flooding, famine, disease, war …
One only has to read the IPCC report.
You have both studied it,
As you, my wonderful children have told me, seeking to reassure, the climate crisis is still fixable,

To my daughter Grace,

The year now is twenty twenty two and for your future I write to you,
During this winter of discontent know that I among many did not relent,
Our world, our planet, our sacred mother earth destroyed by the children it so lovingly birthed,
Through selfishness, greed and stubborn ignorance let not those who failed to act claim any innocence,
Loss of...

To my lovely grandchildren,

Dear Daisy, Syd and Tommy,
When Grandad and I cycled through the park this morning. the sky was a bright, piercing blue. Shafts of sunlight shone down through the trees, the light catching the leaves as they floated down to the multi-coloured carpet below, Ours is a beautiful world, and autumn is the most beautiful time of year.
When I was your age, the world...

To my dear grandchildren ,

You all know how I, and my many good friends around the world, have fought tooth and nail to help our planet survive the scourge that is Man - well at least those men/women in control of our planet, who are allowing its destruction. I am praying that our efforts will not be in vain and the planet will still be a beautiful, safe place for you to enjoy and thrive.

PM Liz Truss,

I am writing this letter to you to inform you of a current climate change. Our future upcoming is now and so yet has been full of consequences. We therefore would like to change this.

For this case, I would like more further big changes to occur. This will include more policies, some understanding, and much more healing of this earth also. We need to act now in...

To my dear grandchildren,

Though you will not read this letter for many years, I wanted to share with you some precious memories from my childhood. I hope and pray that you will be able to have similar moments.

When I was little, many animals visited our garden every day - hedgehogs, dormice, many butterflies, and dozens of different species of birds. Sadly, the heathland next door has...

To the children of tomorrow,,

My Hindu faith has always taught me to live in harmony with our divine world. With the supreme atman present in everything, I have learnt to respect all - from mighty mountains to humble insects. As a Hindu and as a climate activist, I realise that we all have a duty to selflessly serve and maintain the well-being of our sacred Mother Earth (Bhoomi Devi). However, the...

Dear The Next Generation,

I am asking everyone now to do the best that they can to pass on this planet to you: the next generation, in a better state than they found it. Things should always improve, they should never go backwards.

Kind regards,

Martin

To my grandchildren and great granddaughter ,

I hope we have done the things we promised to try to prevent a catastrophic climate and ecological disaster.
I used to love going out on the moors and cliffs, seeing the beautiful countryside and counting caterpillars! If we haven't started to make the big changes necessary then, I fear, you will not see Puffins and Marsh Fritillaries and Red Squirrels any more....

Dear everyone,

I am truly sorry we could not stop these planetary crises. Our politicians do not care enough about the future to accept the inconveniences they would suffer from taking the steps needed to ensure a sustainable vision for the future.
They could have done many things to stop the devastation they have caused, instead of concentrating efforts to try to ensure a healthy...

To my grandchildren August and Elise ,

We owe you a HUGE apology!
Every day we read an article in the newspaper or take in pictures of the looming devastation of our unique and wonder-ful planet earth and know that through our greed we have speeded up this destructive path. We have sought to increase our personal comforts, our personal gains and we have been too lazy to think through the consequences.

To my children, Lily and Travis,

The future always seemed so far away and yet, here we are.
I hope it’s the future you always dreamed of!

I hope the world has shown you kindness and that you’ve shown kindness in return,
I hope you’ve found your purpose and you’re happy and thriving.
I hope you live without fears or regrets.
I hope you live in a world...

To my brother, Shivan,

Dear Shivan
Recently, the way humans show their appreciation for the world we live in has dramatically worsened – from climate change that we have caused affecting more lives now than ever before, to plastic pollution in the ocean meaning that each year over 1 million seabirds, 300000 porpoises and dolphins, and 100000 other marine mammals are killed.

To my late-mother, Alison and our late-dog, Chestnut,

I hope you're enjoying walking over the hills together, sitting in the forest and moon-bathing under the stars.

Our government acted. The people stepped up and we inspired monumental change. Legislations now truly protect our oceans and our lands, rewilding schemes have flourished successfully, Indigenous tribes have been given compensation and are healing our...

Meg and Oli,

I hope your future is green. That you can feel the trees and the fresh air about you and enjoy nature and wildlife. I hope you can always have clean water to drink, swim in and keep clean in.
One day I hope everyone focusses on renewable and sustainable energy.
Perhaps we will all learn to value time with family and friends and focus on the quality rather than...

To my grandson, Ivor,

I'm so glad that you have learnt to love nature in your garden and every weekday enjoy your long walk to school through woodland and past a stream. When I was young I played in gardens and wild flower meadows and like you I soon learnt about animals, plants and insects from my parents who were equally passionate. Such things for us are wonderful and in our over-commercialised...

To my inherited grandchildren,

It has been so lovely to get married in later life, and by doing so gain grandchildren, when I have never had children myself!

2030 is only 8 years away - and I wonder what the world is going to be like, and what you'll be doing. It scares me that the planet will not be as we know it even now. When I was at university 40 years ago I took bottles to a bottle...

My children Lara Patrick and Robbie ,

I’m terrified on a daily basis about the impact of climate change on our planet -the effects of which are undeniable and evidenced all around the world - most recently, hurricane Ian which has caused devastation in Florida and South Carolina.

Our current government is demonstrating a flagrant disregard by continuing to dig fossil fuels from the earth instead...

To my daughter Polly,

In 2030 you will be 19 and I really hope that you will be enjoying a chance to travel, to see creatures and places full of variety and meet extraordinary people. I also hope you will no longer be bombarded by advertising for things you don’t want or need. I hope there will be a thriving circular economy wherever you choose to live, no need for food banks, with community...

To my grandchildren Ciara, Connor, Amy and Katieim,

I’m hoping that by the time you read this, (in 2030!), the future of the Earth’s climate will be looking much more positive than it appears to me right now in 2022. You see, it’s all about how much effort the present world leaders are prepared to put into reducing the amount of gases pushed into the atmosphere by human activities: home heating, transport (including...

Great grand daughter ,

Dear great grand daughter

I sat by the sea today and looked out to wind farms . And had a vision of hope . A hope that the world you grow up in . Is full of people who aren’t just thinking of them selfs and the profits that can make . By only seeing today and not tomorrow.
I hope your generation is better then mine .
Kinder more thought .

My son Leo,

My dearest son,

As I think about you in 10 years time I am full of both hope and dread. Hope because I can see your beautiful soul growing kind, strong and full of love for life. Dread because I see with my eyes the way the world, your home, is changing and yet I am not strong enough to stop what is happening, to stop you from having to pay the price for the...

To my future self,

I hope that you are enjoying long walks in the countryside, bird watching and still getting plenty of fresh air. I'm hoping that the rivers are clean, there's more trees being planted, there's bees, butterflies and other insects in abundance, and the planning laws are preventing unregulated development in our precious green spaces. But I am worried about what might have...

To my darling daughter,

I want a future for you where people and the planet come first, not profits.
I want you to be able to see and experience the wonder and diversity that is Earth.
My hope for you is that you are able to breath in clean fresh air. To dip your toes in the sea without fear that it is contaminated with sewage. I want you to be able enjoy all that nature has to offer...

To my friend,

Nowadays, Climate change is a global concern. It is an alarming situation for whole globe. We have to think globally like “ Vasudev Kutumbakam (Sanskrit phase found in Hindu texts which mean “the world is one family)”. In Hindu mythology that is completely scientific, natural resources like trees, rivers, mountains are worshipped in Hindu religion. The point is we have...

To English Government,

You must build a full environmental green country, starting with new house build with full insulation,solar panels, solar charging bank, eco chargers, LED light bulbs, energy monitor, smart radio thermostat, compost bin, water tank built underground in garden, solar garden lights. All of above must in every new house built in UK.
Every city with electric trams, better...

To future children ,

Before humans existed, there had been 5 mass extinctions (where almost all species on Earth were lost). It is distressing to consider the extreme likelihood that the potential 6th mass extinction, looming over our heads, could be caused by us humans taking more than we need. Put plainly, our selfishness and lack of care is the asteroid that is currently causing people to...

To my grandchildren Aden, Izzy, Gracie, Zaki, Sumaya, Evelyn, Esme, Idris & Ezra,

To my darling grandchildren

I hope that when you read this the world is looking better and brighter than it is feeling now in 2022. I hope that people and politicians have started to take the threats to our climate and environment seriously and are acting to make improvements. I hope that people are being encouraged to consume less and value the precious...

To my grandchildren, Hugo and Rosie,

I want you both to have a beautiful life, as we had, able to live in freely and without fear, mindful of everyone else on this planet.

2022 has shown humanity has contributed to emmense climate change events, floods, fire and hurricane...displacing millions through our abuse of the world's natural resources... Now is almost too late. We promise to do our best...

To my stepson Jamie, to my 4 grandchildren in Australia (Courtney, Jacob, Rylee and Tahlia) and to all my friend's and family's children ,

Dear kids, I want to say keep on fighting for the beautiful unique planet we all live on to be clean, green and healthy. I started protesting in my late teens in the 1960's against "pollution" and now, 55 years later, I'm still fighting to protect precious green spaces, all our wildlife and stop fossil fuels (still pollution). There is nothing more important than this except...

Myself,

If I was still here in 50 years I really wonder, and dread, what our world would look like... a poem to my future self

What would be here for me?

Would birds still be singing and would there be trees?
Would the Fish still be swimming in oceans and seas?
Would Butterflies flit and what about bees would they still be here to make...

To my great nephews and niece,

I'm sorry that we, the older generations, didn't do more to bring about a better world for you.

We are all caught up in a broken society where self interest, greed and disrespect can flourish and can even be encouraged.

Be strong and do the right thing, even if that may not seem to benefit you directly at the time.
Use your youth and...

To all those yet to come,

I hope your world is beautiful.
I hope it is full and thriving like never before.
I pray beyond words that we did enough to save it, and that we didn't fail you.

I pray there are animals and healthy ecosystems and forests and teeming oceans.
I pray that you'll never know the natural disasters and climate crises that we have become...

Myself,

I'm glad that there is finally more polarbears. I'm happy that the grass you see when walking near the river is actually green, not yellow, and that 80% of it isn't covered in empty drink bottles that could've just been put in the bins later on. The news is finally talking about the Ozone layer healing and animals living happily in thier natural world that is thriving, rather...

To my great nephew, Elliot,

I want you to know that I would dearly love for you to be able to grow up in a world at peace with enough food for everyone and where the natural world is respected and loved. Mankind has created his own problems and I hope that over the next few years he will also solve them - too much plastic going into the oceans, too much burning of fossil fuels exacerbating climate change...

My sons Callum and Thomas and any future Grandchildren,

We have all had or known someone who has been struck ill by a virus.

I think about what a virus looks like under a microscope.

What saddens me the most is knowing that if anyone looked down on Earth and saw humans crawling all over our planet - they would see us as we are - the biggest, baddest virus imaginable. Multiplying and destroying the...

To my babies ,

You've grown so fast, and I hope you love this planet and its beautiful natural environments and wondrous wildlife as much as I do; as much as you did when I could still legitimately call you my babies. You're 8 and 13 now, so you're old enough to know about the mess we've made of the place. I hope that I've taught you to tread lightly on the world. I've done what I can to...

To my Grandaughter. Chloe,

Make sure you get out in the garden (or park) every day to recharge your natural batteries.

My future self,

Hello future me, I am you from the past. I am writing to you about climate change and how it affects our world. Climate changed is caused by oil process, petrol and diesel. All of these cause heat which is called climate change. Climate change can affect many things such as growing crops, droughts and ice burgs melting which can hurt eco systems and endanger animals - polar...

To my sons Leon and Noah,

You have been let down by past generations including my own. We have indiscriminately plundered the earth without consideration and moderation and that is unforgivable. You are having to live with the consequences of that and you should feel let down because you have been. I hope you have the courage and conviction to do the right thing and respect your environment and planet...

My grandson Ally (7 now) ,

Hi Ally

I really hope the world is a good place to live in when you grow up and are in your 60s as I am now.

It has been evidenced since around 1990 that pollution was affecting our planet. That we needed to stop using petrol, oil and gas. We had the technology for solar and wind power. We also knew that removing trees and hedges and the use of...

Future generations ,

I’m sorry I couldn’t do more to stop them. I’m sorry we let you down
I’m sorry that greed & selfishness won
I’m sorry you won’t get to see the things we did
Be assured it was the minority
Sending hope

To my great niece Laila,

I hope I and others like me can save our beautiful planet by overcoming the tyranny of those who put profit before planet and all its inhabitants while doing what we can to make a difference personally. I pray we will leave a better place than the frightening one reigning now

My Daughter Mia,

I would love to see the world a happier place where there is more peace and sharing. A world in which we look after, nurture and not destroy further.

To my second cousin Wilf who lives in New Zealand,,

You're one month old already!

I hope that one day we can go surfing together but you’ll have to learn how to walk & talk first - then become a really good swimmer.

I did lots of swimming in New Zealand when I went on holiday before you were born. The water was lovely and clean. But here in the UK, we are seeing more pollution in our rivers and...

Me,

Try not to buy things wrapped in throwaway plastic. All plastic should be recycled

Alastair and Peter, my beloved sons,

We have a beautiful and amazing World. Please do everything you can do to take care of it. Recycle, walk or cycle when you can, be very careful with all resources . Hold the government to account not to give up in investing in green initiatives. Enjoy the world around you and make the most of the wonderful creation made by our loving God and Father. Be part of preserving it...

To my great nieces and nephews ,

Forgive us for having left the natural world in a poor state. But I hope we have at least shown you what must change. It is possible to both have a good life AND look after nature. You just need to think! Don’t continue to waste energy and water. Don’t use throw away plastic. Do consider nature in all that you do. Do consider the climate seriously. Do get out into the...

Every child out there at this moment.,

We need peace in the world.
Chaos will only retard growth, progress and impoverish the world further.
Children lose their future in wars and chaos.
What's a world with future less children?
We the adults owe our children a gift of a future to look you to.

To my daughter ,

The world was created by God and He gave us the dominion to rule and care for it. So, use the authority He has given you to love, nurture and protect it.
Make the world beautiful,
God bless you

To my future self,

I hope our blue and green planet hasn’t changed for the worst. I still think there is a chance to save it, but whether or not that’s happened, only time will tell. I always felt like a hypocrite caring about climate change and then doing the very things to continue it; hopefully habits have changed for the sake of our survival. We have to adapt.
I think because...

To my brother Chris,

Hey Chris,

Well here you are in the future. If my maths is any good your 50th is coming up!

I'm writing to you today, 1 October 2022 so we can remember how far we've come as a society in just 8 years.

It's Big Green Week and a national day of action around the country with the message, Enough is Enough. The demands seem so...

Dear my future self,

I'm writing this letter to you during autumn 2022. This summer held record high temperatures. This worries me because this shows the true extent of the climate crisis and how it'll continue to affect us. I worry for you and the future you are living in. I don't want you to have to live in a world with issues like these but I hope you make the best of it and contribute your...

To my son, Isaac,

We are all responsible for the effects of climate change, and for not doing enough to minimise it. I fear it is too late to stop many of the effects, and there isn't the political will to want to turn this around. I want you to live in a world which isn't plagued by extreme weather events, food insecurity and mass migration because people can no longer live in their own...

My baby,

Dear little one,

As you grow in my womb I imagine what it will be like to hold you in my arms. I imagine all of the wonderful things we will get to do together. I'd like to share my hopes for some of them now.

I want to lay you down in a woodland so that you can watch the trees, listen to the sounds of the wild and take in the smell of the...

To our girls,

Dear girls,

What a mess we have made. Us, your parents, and generations before us have near enough destroyed your future and the future of your children. We did our best. We showed you how to respect life around you and we lived organically, consciously and carefully. But it may not have been enough. Not everybody feels the same way, cares the same way. We...

Beautiful Trees.🌲,

Dear Trees, my saviours and light you should know that in days gone by During a depression I drew and hugged your relatives. I also sat beneath their branches, watched and enjoyed the seasons change while writing poetry.
Many an old book holds their dried leaves which are still full of the colours of autumn. I hope you still have humans living near you giving you...

To a future citizen,

I hope your air is fit to breathe the rivers and sea full of life and the land supports you with food along with the predators and prey who share this world. I have enjoyed such richness of life and biodiversity is so thrilling to discover. I remember as a child naughty little boys would put muddy earthworms down your back, I made daisy chains, inhabited camps imagined from ...

The future generation,

Its difficult to start a letter like this, I'm just going to say what I'm thinking. The world is in trouble, today i was walking to school and i saw so much litter. I'm worried about what will happen if we don't make a change, planet earth needs us.

I try my hardest to walk to school everyday, but looking at the paths and seeing all the litter is ruining my walk...

To the future generation ,

It is time to change our ways. It is time to take thing seriously. It is time to take precautions into our own hands. I remember when I could go ride down my road on my bike but now all it is, is an ocean of litter and rubbish. I remember could breathe in fresh air now my throat is clocked with this horrible, disgusting, polluted black smoke that somehow you still call air....

The Future Generation,

I would like to telling you about CLIMATE CHANGE I'm going to talk about climate change its a horrible thing one day were green now were lowering our standards. now climate change makes me worried its scary I always feel the world will be there on day and when i wake up its not going to be there its a big thing to worry about😒.I hate people that leave there rubbish...

To Liz Truss,

Dear Liz Truss,

There is nothing better to do then walk around my local area and enjoy the beautiful places, but there is a problem...there is an obscure amount of rubbish lying around, its terrible!
Everywhere you walk its all just litter which could have easily been picked up! This is not just affecting the beauty but also the climate! This has been...

To my Son Isaac,

I fear that the future may look bleak and worrying to you, that the winters will only get colder and wetter and the summers will scorch you and make the natural world around you that you love suffer. We have seen what feels like the first of these extremely harsh summers this year, in our safe little pocket in England. Meanwhile floods and forest fires and other climate...

To future generation ,

It's time. Time to change.The planet is dying. Iets take actions into our own hands . The Earth is crumbling to pieces. I can not describe how important this is to me. I'm not asking for the world to have a huge change but even the littlest things help. Like having different bins for different things, recycling your rubbish,walking or going on a bike instead of using a...

future self,

30th September 2022

To my future self,

I am writing to my future self in 10 years to see how life will have changed. The environment is a wonderful place to live in but who knows how the world will be in 10 years time. i hope that people have started to help towards climate change more. Climate change is a huge priority in the world to this day...

To my future self ,

To my future self in 15 years,

I'm writing you to so that I know the state of our beautiful planet. I know the world works wonders, however, at this current moment in time, the world i slowly falling apart due to our selfish mistakes. We need to make sure that we reduce the amount of waste that is present to not only save the atmosphere, but also the wildlife...

My future child/ children,

You may not be in this world right now but one day you will take a place on this earth, and I would hope it is a wonderful place for you. I really do hope climate change is not too much of a problem for you when you finally arrive whenever that maybe.
As I grow old I will do my best to recycle as much as possible, and do my best to get people to stop using so much...

To my future self,

The world is a beautiful place and we are trying to stop the world from falling down and people from not being friendly to the environment . So i want your generation to save the planet from litter gas and horrible things like those. I know it will be hard but your generation might be able to stop it because so far we have made electronic cars that don't need fuel ; you guys...

To my future self,

to my future self
knowing the changes that iv already experienced in my 43 years what id hope for in 5 years time is that the rapid changes in the seasons can slow down there changes to keep our seasons as they should be. i want snow at christmas, the brown autumn leaves to fall, the summer fun with water games outside and spring and the start of the bulbs and daffodils...

to future genaration,

Dear future generation I hope you get this letter I can not wait for you get this from the future hope you don't make the silly mistakes that we made for this planet. So I am telling you that you don't need to make the same mistakes that we made.

We have got to keep our animals safe so that is why today we have vets so when animals are safe. At this moment in...

To my goddaughter, Amarachi ,

hey baby girl hope you are okay,
Remember all the times i would moan at you for not putting rubbish in the bin well this is why i want you to be able to grow up in a world that has amazing beaches that are full of fish rather than rubbish because of the rapid growth in population there is a lot more rubbish and less place for it to go.
The holiday we took to...

Dear future people,

Dear future people,
I am writing to you to say that I can help with all the eco-friendly decisions, If we set up more in fact websites on our tree decisions and get people to donate more and more money and all of that money can go towards plants and trees. Our nature is dying because we as humans are destroying more trees then the amazon rain forest its-self. we have...

people in the future,

Dear future people,
I am writing to you to talk about ECO- friendly decisions and why they are important also i am going to tell you what i want to change about some peoples decisions in our world.

Firstly littering, i am a person who despises littering i don't support people who think it's ok to litter because its not you may think its just a piece of...

dear future ,

Dear future people,
I am writing to you to talk to you about ECO friendly environments and decisions and why they are important in the world today and any other day, and i am also gonna talk to you about other peoples decisions .

Firstly, littering why i choose littering is because all the animals in the ocean are passing away, and my second reason for...

Dear prime minister,

We need to use recycled plastic because we'll end up losing the planet. So we have to act fast so we do end up losing our planet.we need to stop killing animals and STOP DROPING rubbish and put it in a bin.And we destroy plants an d grass it will make it harder to breathe.

From,
Max Manning

Dear future generation,

Dear future,

I am writing to encourage you to help save the planet and to be eco friendly.
This is a problem that needs to be gone. This planet needs you.

To be eco friendly you can cut down on the stuff you use like your car, paper and litter. Instead of using your car all of the time you can ride a bike or walk, for paper you can...

Dear future generation,

In the future I hope you cut down on how much plastic you use. It's killing our environment one bottle at a time.
Recycle more than throwing things in the waste it will help you save our world. The streets are filled with rubbish now,I hope you change this fast.
Gasses are polluting our air, cutting down trees will stop oxygen coming into the world making it...

My future self ,

I imagine the world you live in is a far cry from the one I grew up in. I have tried to repair some of the damage that I have contributed to.
I was a late starter to repurposing previously loved items, reducing meat consumption, composting kitchen waste etc.
I should like to think government will have taken positive action to replenish the earth

To Mama,

Mama i'm writing from the 30 september 2022. I don't know when your reading but if your a little richer now please send to charity. At the time of writing, us as a family already do a lot but please don't stop. I'm hungry now (who cares). Please may i have 100 pounds to donate to 5 charities 20 pounds each. Thank you if you do this.

love from william (the...

to future generation,

Dear, future generation I hope you get this letter well and I hope you don't make the same silly mistake we did please help our earth by doing the things listed below.💚♻

First off put your rubbish away in a bin because all our oceans get polluted 😢 and our sea animals may choke on it or be ending up in seriously injured🤢🐟🐬🐳🐠🐡🦑

To my future self,

There was once a time where I thought the world was immune; nothing could harm or damage it. But times are changing. And so is the planet. Global warming and many other worldwide issues are affecting the world by a massive amount and a noticeable change has been taking place in our time. the world is a beautiful place but is however being destroyed by us humans.

To the future, infinity and beyond,

Our time is nearly up. If climate change gets worse everyone's life would be different. world leaders are having plans to move human life to another planet. But that's not right if we move to another planet we save this one then do it. We are the cause of this. We are like the poison that destroy stuff. Erasing species and environment from the face of this planet. We need to...

To my future self,

In 10 years time I hope that people start taking climate change more seriously, that the polar bearsill still have a home.
Climate change is a scary change that is happening and its happening fast. If we choose to ignore it, it's only going to get worse. I hope in 10 years time we've all come together to help change the way the world is.
We need the people in...

To my future self,

We need to make a change, the world is a beautiful place and we need to save it. Our planet is falling apart. So I want your generation to save it, before we cant. Our planet has been ruined by things like, litter, pollution and so much more. I know this will be hard but I know your generation can do it.

We can change cars that need fuel, into electric cars....

To Liz Truss,

Dear Liz Truss,
For me doing something people will remember is a huge thing that I have always dreamed about so I'm writing to you about some my ideas of how to solve the ongoing climate change.

People have been stuck with this climate change for years now and we still don't know who to solve it so I thought I could share some of my ideas for climate...

Dear future generation,

Dear future generation,
At just 11 years old the world was far from changeable and very few people cared about the impact climate change was causing. I'm sure we all have a favourite animal, maybe a tiger or a gorilla or a bee, well they are endangered and could be extinct. You can make a difference and stop this from happening one small change can make a big...

To my future self,

In 10 years time I hope that people take climate change more seriously, the beaches are cleaned with no rubbish. All of the toxins that are polluting the sea and killing the sea creatures, I hope that it is all cleaned and they are living a healthy sea life.

Dear future,

Dear future person,

I am writing to inform you about wildlife in danger.
Many people have a favourite animal like a gorilla or a tiger or even a panda but all of these animals are in danger and at the risk of extinction.It is not just them in danger thousands of other creatures are facing the same threat including plants and trees.To save wildlife from...

Prime Minister Liz Truss,

Dear Prime Minister,

I am writing to inform you about the global issues going on today.

Global warming is a big issue around the world which is making animals endangered.
For example Polar bears are endangered due to the fact ice glaciers are melting and there is more water than land. The Arctic is melting twice as fast as the global...

To future generations,

Most days I find myself living with feelings of repressed sadness and rage at the inaction and dismissive attitude of our politicians and those people with the power to make real and lasting changes for the positive.

We live in a time where we are seeing the repercussions of decades of failing to take the importance of the natural world seriously, bad things are...

a friend,

Hi Sal, i hope im doing okay and that ive made you proud. I know i never said it before while i was with you but i really do love you and care for you a lot. More then i ever told you. It hurts my heart to know that you will be reading this with wrinkles and grey hair at your side but also warms me to know your still thinking of me.
I also hope that your listening to me...

To anyone who reads this,

Hi, are world is turning black, we all need to fight climate change and do something. If your so bothered about Liss Truss, that’s fine, don’t worry about climate change, make the world feel rubbish. These electric cars are totally good for the environment. What about the Fossil Fuels used to create the energy then? What about batteries in 10 how will we recycle cars?...

To members of the Senedd committee - Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure,

Dear Llyr, Janet, Huw, Delyth, Jenny and Joyce

My thoughts were with you today at 9:30 as your Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee met at the Senedd. I was at the Senedd yesterday for a Silent Vigil where 16 people sat for an hour and sent their thoughts to all of you and others in government expressing gratitude for your work and a sense of...

To my Darling Grandchildren,

Despite being an active Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace campaigner for around fifty years my darlings our civilisation is so far failing you.

I am very frightened indeed for you.

We have inherited a stunning planet that could, with the right policies, keep us all safe.

But our leaders are not yet backing the right policies to...

To my future self after ten years,

As a biological student, I expect you to become an ecologist works on wildlife conservation.
Under the current climate crisis, I hope it does not get worse at your time, and I hope all those amazing animals and plants still exist. At least, I hope we can still see those we are familiar with.
If you have been to Africa, I hope you can still see lions. If you...

to my future child,

Im sorry that this planet is where it is now, can you please try to reduce your carbon footprint because this planet may not survive without your help please try to re-use items you used and recycle properly.

To my future self & my family,

My hopes are that we have done enough to set our beautiful planet & all it's wonderful, amazing biodiversity on the road to recovery. I hope that all governments, businesses & people of the world have acted with the urgency so desperately needed & stepped up to the huge challenges we face. If there have been any more delays on taking immediate action &...

My future self,

Dear future self,

We don't know what the future will look like and this is making me petrified.

Our energy and recourses are limited and many people are doing nothing to help.

We as a class are trying to make a small difference to contribute to our future and we hope this can make an impact in the future.

I hope we...

To our future selves.,

To our future selves,

We hope our lives are ok and the world doesn't end.

We hope we stop using plastic and things are wrapped in paper or cardboard. We hope humans stop using non-renewable energy and instead use renewable.

We want more rainforests and to stop cutting them down. To save the polar bears from climate change. We want...

To my friend Jack,

Dear Jack,
I'm writing this as a plea for change. Since global warming was discovered we have seen many environments struggle and be lost. Habitats and homes broken beyond repair while ice caps melt into empty space. If change has not come by 2030 then take this as a Urgent message! What if you had no where to live anymore because of the damage to our planet. Help make...

To my son John,

Well
No one could have predicted that.

I wish I could have been more hopeful and made a difference.
Shame on me.

Mum

My older self,

Dear future me,
I do hope this finds you well.
I hope you are still a able to get out for your walks amongst the natural world you love so much.
I'm curious to know: are there still butterflies, marbled whites with the wings that look as if they they've been inked on, flying through the meadows.
Does the skylark still make it's presence felt over...

To my nieces and nephews, in the Kardzis family,

Do better than we did.

Care for the earth.

Be better stewards.

Love the world. God’s beautiful creation.

My Grandchildren, Finley, Rose and Daisy,

To my beautiful grandchildren,
I was once a grandchild and loved my grandparents, they shared with me stories of the past and shared with me their dreams for my future.

Back then there was a future to dream for, although the big oil companies already knew what was ahead, they already knew they were destroying not just incomes for the poor but the whole...

To my grandchild,

You are not born yet but in my mind daily. I’m baffled every day too. That our current leaders care only for their own power and that their venal short term world view puts not only humankind in peril but the entire natural world on which we and all other living things depend.
My hope is that this is a soon to be over supernova of the Anthropocene, before leaders...

To my nieces and nephews Luke, Sully, Eliza, Mae, and Eleanor,

My hope for the future burns bright because you will be guiding it. I want you to love Nature, to view it as a friend and not an adversary. I feel like those who have gone before you, including the generation before mine, have caused so many problems, and I wish they had had ears to hear those of us who protested to take us seriously. Now enough has changed that people are...

To my future grandchildren ,

Dear future Grandchildren,

My generation today, as of 01/10/2022, has almost lost the capacity to save your planet; my friends and I created the dangerous weather conditions you are experiencing — we've deliberately refused to change our lifestyle and be friendly to the environment.

The environment was friendly to us by providing food,...

To Poppy, Lenny and Stanley, my grandchildren from whom I learn so much,

My heart sings when I watch you pond dipping for tadpoles, holding a slow worm, picking elderberries and blackberries, asking about the birds you see in the sky.
Your love of nature and all you learn from Mother Earth fills me with hope. You are still too young to realise that all this beauty may now be transient.. I ask that you forgive us and hope beyond all else that...

To my 2 children ,

You are both in your 20s. I've suggested that you don't have children. I really don't want to feel so much love and fear for any future family members.
You know we thought hard about having children/you. You know we are too worried about the future. You know I spend time campaigning and coordinating almost every day. I celebrate all campaigning wins. But they are...

To my son, Ezra ,

I hope with all my heart that as a society and global community we are finally starting to act as custodians for our beautiful planet and not the greedy exploiters that we have been in the past. I hope that there are protected green spaces to be enjoyed by young and old and wildlife alike. I hope that people are finding the joy in growing their own vegetables and reducing food...

Anyone,

Four seasons, each different, with lows, highs
Flora, Fauna, biodiversity
Ozone layer, sun, not harming, blue skies
Sea levels unthreatening, much safety
Walking, cycling, calm, unpolluted air
Hedgerows, mixed woodland, cutting down carbon
Sustainability, caring, all fair
Absence of traffic, listening, still, often

To my Great Grand-children, Phoebe and Levi,

Dear Phoebe and Levi,
I want you to grow up in a world that has lots of birds, animals, flowers, trees, insects and fish, all in their own habitats and unharmed by pollutants and nasty things. I want you to be able to go for lovely country walks as I did as a little girl 90 years ago. I want you to be able to breathe clean air for your lungs to be healthy.
I hope...

To my darling son, Vincent,

Our walks in the woods are my favourite memories of you as a child. I smile thinking about the foxes we saw, and your first hedgehog sighting. The little shrew we found, identified and named. Teaching you the names of the birds and spotting bird boxes are all just rolled into a warm ball of love.
You and me, outside.
You and me, amongst the trees.
I...

My baby nephew,

To the most smiley baby I've ever seen,

I really hope that you grow up in a world where you can continue to enjoy nature. I hope that chirpy little birds always sing to you, and that clean air kisses your face as you walk along the beach, enjoying the soothing sensation of clean sand and waves of clear sea on your skin.

Right now, I try to be...

To Juniper & Rowan my precious grandchildren ,

In my cottage I look at the picture of my great grandparents, the world has changed since their day, I have access to so many opportunities, as it should, life has improved for successive generations. My great fear is that you and your children will look at a photo of me and know that I and my generation let you down. Failing to leave a life that is better than one we...

To my future Grandchildren,

I hope that you are able to enjoy the wonderful gift of creation that we were blessed with and hope that by still doing the little we can do swimming against the tide of ignorance, misinformation and self interest of big business will preserve some of this wonderful planet.

Education is the way forward to fight against the ignorance of the lobbyists and those...

To my grandchildren and great grandchildren ,

Today is 29/09/2022,and I pledge I will do everything in my power to fight for your future climate,nature, and social justice, because you should live in a world
worthy of you and everyone else.

To my beloved children and grandchildren,

I'm so sorry that the selfish actions of my, and previous, generations have left our beautiful planet in such a terrible state for you. I promise that I will do everything I can to try and make things better , especially by calling on governments and world leaders to keep their promises to reduce carbon emissions , stop polluting our rivers and destroying wildlife habitats.

To our granddaughter, Evie,

We are living in a difficult time, and I fear that matters may only get worse. Because I am already an elderly man, the state of our planet will only affect me for a few more years, but for you my dear Evie, the effects of climate change may be a lot more alarming and for your children and grandchildren - who knows what the planet may be like in a hundred years from today? The...

Maddie, Emily and James,

Hello kids. The weather has just turned cold after a very hot and dry summer. Too hot, too dry. I'm working really hard to try to do all I can at home and at work to give you guys and your children the best chance possible to live in a world like the one I thought I lived in when I was your age. Back then, the world was full of opportunity and excitement.

Dear future Nipper,

It makes me sad to think that the world is not being cared for. It makes me angry to think that big business takes priority over the rest of the world. Sometimes the reality of it all is too overwhelming.

But what I do love is our long winding walks, sea dips, river rambles and muddy puddle splashes. These moments ground and uplift me, all at once. I love how...

To my future self,

I hope you are well. Do you still walk through the moors, beaches and fields? I hope you can still listen to birds whistling and insects humming through the woods. I hope you can swim through crystal clean streams alive with dragonflies, water vole and willow. I hope you climb mountains, wrapped in their solitude and stillness.

Are you settled in a community...

To my nine lovely grandchildren,

I'd like to think that you will all be well and living fairly simply, just as my parents did in the early 20th century - recycling, mending, cooking healthy meals and growing food and flowers. If you are, then this will have helped curb food, clothing and plastic waste and revitalised our beautiful wildlife. A more simple way of life will help people to share and swap any...

To my future self ,

I hope my efforts weren’t in vain.
I hope the government saw that money won’t matter if we lose everything else.
I hope it all worked and that we did enough.
I hope that we were able to make the connection between ourselves and the earth, and to see that we’re all one and the same. To reconnect with nature and see our part in it.
I hope...

Dear Grandchildren,

We came close to a world without elephants
With great rain forests denuded of trees,
Found we’d miss the sweet fragrance of flowering plants
If we killed off our good friends the bees;
We imagined a rainbow of just three shades of grey
If life’s colours were sold for false gain,
As we guzzled the gas in our mad dash for cash

Future Izzy,

I hope you get to spend as much time in the sea as I do now. Being able to submerge myself into nature is a privilege I get to enjoy every day – but how long will it last?

I like to think I act for the environment, but do I do enough? Do any of us do enough?

I hope that in ten years’ time the governments and large corporations have woken up...

Emily,

I have just been listening and dancing to "Emily Smiles" by the Lightening Seeds. I want you to keep smiling not if you are sad but when it feels good. I will be walking on Sunday with others to point out the stupidity of cutting down trees to enlarge a factory. Which is more important the trees or the factory? The factory is only temporary and it uses plastic for its...

To my darling boy,

One day we will walk hand in hand,
Through the orchard we planted in the park at the end of our street.
Apples will be ripe, juicy and ready to eat.
As we harvest the orchard,
Social connections brighten our mood.
From our tiny food forest we’ll harvest lots of food.

And we’ll make crumble to share with our kin,
In...

Everyone,

We, especially those of us living in wealthy nations, were selfish. We knew that we were using the resources of the earth in an irresponsible way. We knew that what we were doing would make life worse, possibly impossible, for future generations. Yet, we carried on because we didn't want to change our lifestyle. Some people realised what was happening and attempted to make...

To everyone,

I hope in our collective future we'll have grown up a little. Delusions can be comforting in the short term, a pillow to hide behind to avoid seeing the uncomfortable truths, often of our own making. But delusion is anathema to life. Refusing to recognise what is makes us unable to navigate those elements that present a challenge to life &, ironically, makes us unable to...

To all my great-nieces and nephews,

To the tomorrow I hope for you,

My greatest hope for tomorrow is that everyone starts to do more to stop the climate crisis. We now have the opportunity to save our planet.

But it has to be everyone. Not just people with power and influence in this world: politicians of all persuasions; church and faith leaders of all religions; media...

Dear Grandad,

Thank you for gifting me the love of nature and for opening my eyes to notice and see all the beautiful things around me.
I have never forgotten all those wonderful walks you took me on as a child through the Welsh countryside after you'd finished a tiring days work. I still remember all the names of the birds, insects and plants around us, that you taught me. I have...

Ellie, my granddaughter and any future grandchildren,

An apology; our generation has failed to leave for yours the beautiful sustainable world we arrived into.

I fear to imagine what your life and that of your contemporaries will be like, to the extent that although I have longed for grandchildren, I also understand why my children are reluctant to have children themselves and I am almost relieved that you are...

To tomorrow's children,

I was lucky to be brought up with birds singing and insects buzzing around me - my garden seems more silent of late. Our generation has been destroying the planet and Gaia is fighting back. The human population is continuing to expand, and with that more of the planet is being destroyed. Humans, just like other creatures need food and water to survive, but they need to...

Dear Future Self,

Isn’t it wonderful that we have made such a turn around? That climate change is no longer an issue. That there are no wars. That everyone has enough food and water. That we treat everyone and everything with compassion. Who would have thought it could all happen so quickly? We just didn’t realise did we; all we had to do was WAKE UP, to raise our consciousness. We realised...

For my dear sons. ,

Never take things in life for granted, for we all often do, but at our peril.

I write at a time the natural world is increasingly under fire, and am dismayed to say our present beloved UK leaders are intent on overturning laws, brazenly reneging on pledges to protect UK wildlife. The impact, if they are undeterred, will mean life will change as we know it, in...

To my son Jo,

Jo
I’m just so sorry that we didn’t protect you properly against what we KNEW was coming but that we carried in regardless as believing in lies was easier than acting on a hard truth. I want you to know that your father & I really tried to make a difference but that the people who counted were only ever interested in short term gain, rather than a sustainable...

My children,

Our consumer lifestyle fuelled by oil is unsustainable. The byproduct of burning fossil fuels is changing our atmosphere. The pollution is affecting how are climate behaves. We are seeing more intense storms, heat waves, droughts ,flooding and the consequential destruction of forests and wildlife. We can expect to see human migration and an increase in conflict. The problem...

To my great grand-daughter Ruby,

I shall never know the world you are living in All I can know is that you will suffer the consequences of the uncaring world we live in today, and I beg your forgiveness for that. What I do want you know is that for over half a century I and many others have been trying to persuade the polititians, the rich and all those in power to row back from catastrophic climate...

To my grandchildren I hope will one day be born,

I wish that when you are born this world will still be green and beautiful, with birds and animals and insects to see. I wish that the sea will be clean and beautiful, with fish and seaweed and shells. I wish that the weather will be friendly, with sunny days and rainy days to help our gardens and plants and crops to grow. I wish that everyone will love our wonderful planet...

To the indigenous peoples of the world,

I am sorry that we thought that we were somehow better and more godly than you, and the lands you had occupied for many generations were "undeveloped" and free for the taking. How deluded we were and still are. Now because of our greed and actions, nature, that on which we all rely is suffering, and unless we make grass roots change will there be a future? Some areas are...

King Charles,

Please continue work toward sustaining the natural world , to help declining species , to regain balance - to keep the world protected and balanced our worlds eco system , to slow down and the damaged ozone , to work towards fair treatment of animals of whom you dearly cherish .. you love natural wild life , and the countryside , please join with Europe to change the...

To future Sarah,

I am writing this in what feels like a raw week for nature news following the government’s #attackonnature plans.

I hope you are continuing to fight for nature and listening to those who want to make a difference. Don’t forget to use your natural gifts of creativity, empathy and kindness to support the nature and climate crisis on any scale and empower...

To my granddaughter ,

I am living in a world where nature is in trouble. It’s in trouble because of us humans . There are lots of good people trying very hard to make things right and do their bit to help the environment the animals. The thing is nature was taken for granted and people didn’t care what was happening to the world. I see hope and I see it in the new generation. I believe that...

To my children Isla and Niels,

I hope that your future is a safe one.

I hope that you are able to live independently, you can afford a comfortable life which in turn will enable you to also help others.

I hope that you find joy in those around you and the small things, after all, these are what matter.

I treasure our countryside and I hope that the future of...

To my four beautiful children,

Nature is such a previous thing, it nurtures us and allows us to grow both physically and emotionally. It's nature that's helped me get through hard times, listening to the birds, the grasshoppers in the grass. Seeing the butterflies and the colours of the flowers. We take it for granted and yet it is disappearing so rapidly and needs our help so we don't loose more species....

Dear Donna, an ex-pupil,

I taught you once, a long time ago. You're probably married now with children of your own. You may even have grandchildren. I taught you Maths. You said to me once, in despair, that you were never going to use this when you leave school, as you struggled with algebra. I knew you were right but still I pretended that it was a good thing to spend your time on. I probably wasn't...

To our nieces and nephews, born and yet to come,

We want the world to be a place you can live in without experiencing climate depression and anger towards those in power and those exploiting our beautiful world’s natural resources for money. We have and will continue to fight for your future while your voice and mind are not quite ready yet to do so with us. We love you xxx

To my children ,

I hope you now live in a world that has protected Nature. I hope you can wander in beautiful wild places, with clean rivers, clean air and bird song. I hope you live in a world that has said enough is enough; a world that has finally accepted responsibility for climate change and taken positive action to stop fossil fuels, stop cutting down trees, reduce plastics, ban...

To my niece and nephews ,

I've always been a lucky uncle, who has loved times together with you where we talked about animals we love and animals we would love to meet one day in our future.
You've seen the lovely paintings Nana has created, paintings of beautiful countryside scenes, most of which were from her imagination because they're beautiful places she would love to visit.
Wouldn't...

To my god-daughter's niece,

I'm hoping so much that you'll have clean green public and, where necessary, individual transport so that you can breathe clean air and not contribute to global warming, and hope that all homes will have subsidised solar panels and storage batteries, excellent insulation and perhaps cost-effective heat pumps to keep the cost of energy down and also harm to the climate. Hoping...

All,

If you don’t start to show compassion respect and love for all life environment and planet you won’t have many tomorrows?

To my granddaughter Jenny ,

Gorgeous Jenny, you are so tiny and funny and wise, I can hardly bear to think of the wretched world that this greedy generation is going to leave you.
I am so very glad that you live in Norway even though it means I see you so seldom. But Norway is still a country where the gap between the richest and poorest is a very small one, where citizens are proud to pay their...

To my granddaughter Lily-May,

I am writing this as I look at a photograph of your beautiful young face. You are excited about your life and make the most of all the opportunities presented to you.

You love the natural world and would prefer to be outside. You are fascinated by all the insects that visit our garden and the newts we have in our pond. I truly hope that when you are all grown...

To Planet Earth,

To all of us in the Now Future,

Be kind to yourself and the others. This means to live mindfully and value everything on this planet. What we take from grant today we may miss and need tomorrow: person next to you, water, fresh air, the little bird singing....
LIVE for Tomorrow not only for today!

To everyone still out there,

I think that our biggest mistake, as a species, was believing that we could own land. It seems arrogant to me - this idea that we can possibly hold dominion over something which will so expertly outlast us.

We cannot own the earth - we are here at her sufferance.

Between me and you, now and then, I promise to do all I can to remember this. I...

to all the children, present and not yet born,,

I want to leave a world just as beautiful and amazing as the one that I have been lucky enough to enjoy. I want to be able to protect our wonderful countryside and all the wildlife that I love. I want to leave the same wonderful things to future generations, my children, their children, all children. I feel powerless and sad in the face of large businesses who sometimes only...

My future descendents ,

I hope you believe me when I say that I did all I could. Many other like-minded people also did what they could to save our planet. Unfortunately we were very small cogs in a large machine and despite our best efforts greed and blinkered people ignored not just me, but also the science. Somehow they manage to sleep at night and continued to push their selfish ideals. I wish...

To future citizens,

Please give the planet and nature the respect and care it deserves. To do this, we must go back to a slower pace of life where the planet comes before our own convenience; invest in green energy, remove the sea of plastic, prevent deforestation, reverse the mass extinction.... open our eyes to what is happening here and now. We cannot keep implementing half-hearted targets for...

My children, grandchildren, great-grand children,

Dears,

Sadly, we (humanity) have shown that we do not learn from history or from the past. We have missed out: and so the story goes on repeating itself over and over - so here we are now. I am hoping you still have a healthy home and a healthy planet - I am hoping you have clean air to breathe and you still have trees, flowers and birds. I hope you still...

To Rory and Rose, my grandchildren,

Do you remember the toy gorilla we gave you Rory, and the pictures of Ihoho the young mountain gorilla? And Rose, do you remember the toy snow leopard we gave you, when we 'adopted' a snow leopard for you and sent you pictures from WWF? You both heard about our amazing journey to forests in Uganda to see mountain gorillas a few years ago. We talked too of adventures in Bhutan...

To my great nieces and nephews: Veyatie, Pollaidh, Rosie, Ruraidh, Bella, Joanna, Florrie and Jack,

Dear all, I'm writing this as I see more and more of our precious environment taken away from the animals, birds, trees and other plants, in the name of 'development'.

So I want to ask you what is real development? I have lived long enough to see, for example, how wars have 'de-developed' other countries: Afghanistan, Somalia, Palestine, Iraq, to name only a...

To my granddaughter Jo,

I am so sorry that my generation has wrecked the planet, for you and most other life forms. As you know we have all been far too greedy. The very worst of our crimes is allowing politicians who have a wilful disregard of environmental (and all other) sciences to run the world.

For instance, in the last week in the UK we have a Prime Minister who has lifted a...

To my daughter, Frankie ,

I am so proud of you being part of your school 'green team' trying to campaign for climate action and raising awareness with your friends. You put our prime minister to shame because you have achieved more in your school than her government will ever do at this rate!
I am ashamed that my generation have inflicted so much pain on this world and it's wildlife and people....

Future generations ,

Sorry. I tried.

UK politicians and businesses,

I love the UK and want to see it be a prosperous and safe nation as I grow up, because I know that it's a brilliant country and I want it to stay that way. To ensure this, politicians here and abroad must come together to protect us collectively, instead of playing petty and pointless games which achieve nothing. The British people need to see politicians taking action on the...

To my grandchildren I hope will one day be born ,

I wish that when you are born this world will still be green and beautiful, with birds and animals and insects to see. I wish that the sea will be clean and beautiful, with fish and seaweed and shells. I wish that the weather will be friendly, with sunny days and rainy days to help our gardens and plants and crops to grow. I wish that everyone will love our wonderful planet...

Me,

Hello george EAT LESS MEAT 🥩 EAT SOME VEGETABLES
Hope u dont hurt the environment

My sister, Yvonne.,

You love Nature, ad do I. We need to fight for Nature, not for our kids, but our nieces, nephews, their children and their children's children.
We care, but we can't make others care. Here's hoping, the next generation will do more than ours did, while we had the chance.
I'm sorry; I tried.

To Charlie, William, Oliver, Katie, Louie, Isaac, Archie and Noah,

I’m your grandma and I love you dearly. I want you to be able to enjoy this beautiful planet we call Earth after I am gone. Please don’t take for granted, the song of the robin or the blackbird in your garden. Watching the snails, hedgehogs, all birds and their antics in the bird bath. The feel of the grass under your bare feet, or the sand at the beach. Watching the...

To my four wonderful grandchildren,

Climate change will be the biggest problem your generation will face. It will affect you and the world as I have known it. It will affect all the children alive today.
My generation did not heed the warnings sufficiently at the time when they should have.
"Silent Spring" was a book published a long time which foretold what climate change would do, if we did...

Dear My Future Self,

Postcard from 2030 (here are my hopes for the future in a currently changing and despairing world)

Well, who would have thought an invitation to our MP to our Eco Fair in 2022, could have such an impact!

Having lobbied him on the Local Electricity Bill, and copied in all the people I knew who felt the same way as me, our Government was bombarded...

My MP,

I would like to help sort out Climate Change

To My future self,

Hello future self. We need to take action on climate change hopefully everyone is driving electric cars and the world hasn’t been destroyed. But we need to have make the world better quick! We need to take action on climate change or else in 20 years it won’t be good.
Bye🐹

To my dear friend Molly in future,

I hope we still friends and the world is different and is more sunny and no poluation anymore and that you still recycling your liter .

To my 60 year old self,

Hello 60 year old myself, I’m writing to you to inform you that the condition of the planet is getting very bad and I need you to tell me what it’s like there now and also what I could probably do to make the world a better place. Id like the world to be full of flowers and cloudless skies but pollution is making this way to hard to believe. I want the sea levels to stop...

To myself at 30,

Is the world still suffering from climate change? Have we done something to fix what has happened or is it irreversible? If we don’t do anything now the earth will be so damaged by the time you read this. Have politicians finally made a change? What have you done to help? If the earth is still in a bad state you could do lots of things to help. For example reduce the amount...

Government,

The climate is changing for the worse. People are not doing enough to stop it. If we don’t try now we may not have the chance ever again to save our world. Will you help us do the right thing, burn less fossil fuels, don’t chop down much trees, help the planet. We need to take action now.

To myself at 40,

Is the earth still dying? I wonder if climate change has got better, or maybe worse? If it is still around, future me, you could take the car less and walk or cycle? That would reduce the harmful gases in the atmosphere. Also, you could try recycling or getting a compost bin to reduce waste. Or, eat less meat. You only need 2-3 portions of protein a week. Hopefully the earth...

Dear my future self ,

Make sure to recycle your plastic and all of the meet you eat is kept to a minimum. You should try and get an electrician car and get solar panels on your roof. Remember climat change is real and you should not eat meat all of the week. Try to include plants in your home and recycle scraps into energy using a machine. Every little helps in stopping climat change.

Ruby power - friends ,

Help out with picking up litter
Get a electric car
Recycle
Don’t waste
Look after animals

To my granddaughter, Freya ,

Dear Freya, as the eldest grand child, I wanted to ask you to explain to your brother and cousins what Climate Change has meant to me. When I was first married, more than 50 years ago, I started in my own small way to reduce, reuse and recycle household waste. I was considered either a bit of a crank, or miserly, but how those ideas have grown! And still it is not...

To my unborn grandchildren,

My darlings,
"Even if I knew that the world is going to end tomorrow, I would plant a little apple tree today" I am encouraged by this quote from Martin Luther to do the same. I have been campaigning, signing petitions and supporting conservation and pressure groups for decades and finding it often difficult to not be drawn into despair because not nearly enough seems...

to my 50 year old self,

Hello me in the future our climate in 2022 is rising and is we dont do anything about it you might never see this letter.if you do see this that means that we have invented new ways to sustain our lovley planet and we will try our hardest to protect our climate for you to not worry about our climate any more

To our sons George and Christopher ,

I asked for help from someone of influence many years ago to raise awareness through the media and those in positions of political power about the urgency of global warming and how it will affect all life on Earth in future. Since then the evidence of climate damage has become increasingly obvious with heatwaves and wildfires this summer in some regions and flooding in others....

My future self,

If we don’t change our ways now, it will have a massive impact to us and our environment in the future, we can help by using electric cars instead of petrol because of the emissions it will release, we can also re use clothes and waste and turn it into energy. Every little helps!

Dear Children of the Future, my great-nieces, great-nephews, grandchildren,,

I am so sorry we let you down. Our selfish greed did not stop to think about what you our grandchildren would have to live through. I am hopeful that you are adapting to the changes in Earth's climate. I pray that communities will be resilient and support one another through the difficult times. I know it can be done.

My generation should have done more. ...

Molly Dean - Friend ,

Get an electric car,
help out with picking up litter
look after animals
don’t litter
be kind

To My Future Self,

Dear Future Self,
At last, no more petrol/diesel motor vehicles are being produced here in the UK this year of 2030! However, there should be schemes where it is an incentive to bring about a scrapping of existing petrol/diesel motor vehicles and have a spread of electric and hydrogen powered vehicles. Biofuels should not be used where it increases hunger,...

Future generations,

I do hope this earth is a good place to live, well looked after by society and Governments alike. I hope that my generation came to its senses in time and invested in policies that turned around the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis that we are experiencing today in 2022, so that as many people as possible can live safely, in peace and prosper.

But that is...

To my Brother, Dick,

An Atlantic Ocean separates us, so communication is often difficult with time changes. Yesterday your son Mark must have accidentally phoned me when sitting on his mobile at 1:35AM my time. I was asleep and the next morning when I realised Mark called I knew he was then asleep. I must be honest and say I was concerned because he would not call so late if there was not...

To my grandson Coden,

When I was born World War 2 had just begun there was an urgent need for gas, coal, oil and food because most of Europe was occupied by Nazi forces and Great Britain stood alone. Most houses had coal fires and there was no central heating. We were self-sufficient in coal, gas was derived from processing coal and most of our food was grown here in the UK, oil, on the other...

To my daughter Emmi ,

The world is beautiful and amazing. There is so much we need to look after and to change and sometimes it feels too difficult. But seeing you, my brave, kind little bean, I feel full of hope that we can look after our world and all the creatures in it.

To my Darling Daughter, Eva,

As I write this, you are 3 and a half years old and I am 39. I wonder what you will be like as a 39 year old woman, will you be married, will you have children of your own? I also wonder what will the world look like 35 years from now. For many years, scientists have warned my generation that Climate Change would gradually destroy our planet. For many years, we didn't listen,...

To my grandsons Dashiel and Jack,

Hello boys,
Between the years 1975 and 2022 the British countryside lost 70 million birds partially due to climate change but mainly due to bad farming practices and the overuse of deadly insecticides. Some of this is has been halted but as I write this the government of the day is looking to bring in legislation that could undo what has been done and further deregulate...

To all the young people in my family around the world and their future children,

Our ancestor, my Grand Dad and your Great Grand Dad once planted hundreds of trees on his land which today is a small, mature wood providing shelter for animals and people from the rain, the sun and the wind. The trees are healthy for the environment providing oxygen and cleaning the air around them of pollutants. Trees abosorb carbon dioxide and store carbon in their wood and...

My family ,

Me as part of the older generation are sad that we have done so much damage to our world. I want to urge you to try your best to correct what we have done. May God forgive us all that we have allowed this to happen and through his grace speak to our hearts to make it better.

To my Grandson Theo,

I'm still holding out hope for governments to act to slow, and eventually halt, climate change. There are a lot of things that can be done but it seems our current government in the UK are burying their heads in the sand and focussing only on money.
Insulating old houses, offering proper help to install green energy options and encouraging investment in green energy...

Dear Future Phoenix Events (East) Ltd team,

I hope this letter finds you in an even better position than you were when it was written in September 2022.

Whilst you have grown from a micro business to a small successful business growing at a rapid rate you still are able to focus on social causes, the focus on impact to people is often shared on social media, the focus on your impact at being one of the...

To my children and grandson Rowan ,

Dearest loved ones
I am so sorry for the environmental disasters rapidly unfolding on our beautiful fragile planet. I was born at a time when the world looked full of promise and beauty. Growing up free to roam the beautiful countryside in the 1960s I taught myself about the natural world and it’s many wonders. I have always known that we are part of nature , not...

To my daughter,

Beloved daughter,

I'm hoping that, by the time you're in gainful employment, you won't be polluting the planet just to stay alive; that you can walk through the city centre without inhaling poisonous fumes; that you can walk through the countryside aware of the diversity of nature, and watch the bees on the flowers (I'm hoping there will be bees); that you can...

To my children Lyra and Arno,

My dearest children,

Did I do enough ?
I am hoping that I did.
Our planet, yours too.

Our planet needs us!
Seasons change - unbearable
For all that live here

Did we do enough ?
Lives of excess that we have.
Easy not to see

Our planet cries now,
Floods, droughts,...

To my future self,

Hi,
I hope you’re okay. How’s the world you live in now? Has anything changed? Is it a nice place? Is it a just place? Is it a kind place? Is it a fair place? Is it a naturally beautiful and biodiverse place? Is the climate improving? Have the wars stopped?
I hope so.

To my grandson, Rowan (aged 8 months),

Dear Rowan,

There is nothing better than waking to the sound of birdsong, smelling the moist earth after a gentle shower of rain or seeing the changing colours of the trees as the seasons pass. I am so relieved that you have been given a chance to experience this as you grow up .

I was worried when you were a baby because the world seemed to be in...

To my future self,

I hope that wherever you are, you live in a world where economics has finally been put on a level field to the rights of people, land, water and life. That our resources are finally recovering from decades and centuries of damage, neglect and disregard. I hope wild waters are clean enough to swim, even to drink from. That the rain is no longer poison as PFAs have been banned....

To my son, Nick,

My beloved son, I hope that in ten years you will have fulfilled your wish to become a Dad yourself. I hope these awful Covid years will sink away and your experience of terrible Covid symptoms will be forgotten.

If you are a Daddy (& I am a Granny) I desperately hope that we will see a decent, healthy, fair and safe future for your child and the warming of our...

Tomorrow,

Hello Tomorrow
Hope you're still around, I hope the air is full of birdsong not pollution, I hope the oceans are full of life not plastic, I hope the land is wild not worked to death. I hope there are still vast forests and ice caps. I hope but hope is not enough, now we must act.

To my son, Alex,

I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry you have to live in a world where extreme weather and competition for food and water are a daily reality.
I'm sorry you will never see the wonderful creatures that used to roam the plains of Africa or hear the birdsong that used to be the soundtrack to sunrise.
I'm sorry that our leaders were more concerned with perpetuating a...

To the Prime Minister ,

I hope this letter reaches you, I am writing to you today because this week is BIG Green Week and as I’m sure you are aware there are many things impacting on the future of our planet, our beautiful natural world is constantly withering away, animals are losing their habitats and our air gets dirtier every day.
THE biggest impact on climate change is animal...

To my old safe,,

I hope you are content and healthy. 40 years on from writing this letter, I hope it was worth it.
I’m writing this letter at the age of 41. I’m strong and healthy now although the last two years haven’t been easy.
And there’s the constant fires and floods everywhere. People loosing their homes and loved ones at the same time all over the world. We...

To my sons ,

To my beautiful boys Jake & Will I’m so sorry I did not wake up to the seriousness of the problem sooner. I am awake to it now and it feels overwhelming. I wish to protect you both my angels, my boys, my beloved children as much as I can and fear I won’t be able to do this given the magnitude of the threat we will probably be facing, you more than myself. I pray 🙏 ...

To my children - David, Emily and Bethany,

To my children - David, Emily and Bethany

I am really concerned that your generation will suffer as a result of climate change because of my generation who did practically nothing, and I hope that appropriate action will be taken soon so that you will be safe and happy as you grow up and venture out into the world.

It is also worrying that I am...

My 2 sons O and J ,

Our planet needed some care and compassion from us, the people who have taken so much and not given enough back.

I hope that we were able to do that, and that people and governments took the Earth's plight seriously and gave you a chance at a better future. That we embraced green energy, encouraged nature and biodiversity, and looked after each other better.

To all those who are yet to come,

We're doing our best in 2022 to shift this ridiculous way of life that we have come to see as normal and our 'right'. Not many seem to realise that this is the fight of all our lives, and that it's the most important thing to be doing - but we'll keep on trying to convince others and hope that some can start to see that your future happiness depends on a bit less present-day...

To my niece, Uschi,

I hope that you will be growing up in a world where there is more international cooperation to tackle climate change and that there is a Loss and Damage Fund to provide climate reparations to developing countries.
Now in 2030 you will be turning 11 and I hope that the future will look brighter and more equitable than the present.

To all my grandchildren ,

I hope that our Government will realise that climate change is happening now and action is needed if my grandchildren are to have a future.

A planet where they can sit in a garden and hear the buzzing of the bees and the singing of the birds. To walk along a river and see the dragonflies and fish in the water. To be able to swim in a sea free of pollution.

To HULL DAILY MAIL.,

It is about time we BANNED all PLASTICS, From small bags to big ones also stop Shops from selling their Products in Plastic containers, Milk containers, and Fruit containers, Just ban this STUFF NOW. OR THERE WILL BE NO ANIMALS IN THE SEA AT ALL.

To my great granddaughter, Amelia and the great grandchildren I may not meet in life and to all children, everywhere,,

I love you all, always. Our planet is probably the finest environment imaginable, for us to inhabit. As such it deserves our full care and attention. Nothing, precipitated by human activity of any kind, should be allowed to cause it harm. I wish I could say that this was how my generation looked after our home in order that it's preserved for your enjoyment ... but I can't....

To my friends Jess and Hettie,

We need to protect our planet as we are destroying it day by day and if we don’t do something now it will only get worse. The earth is heating up and the pollution is getting worse. Don’t throw your rubbish on the floor and if you see any pick it up and put it in the bin. We are making the planet worse for others and we need to stop.

To my children,

I know that you already expect the worst as teenagers you’re already disillusioned and cynical about our leaders and that’s sad.

I think you expect the future of our planet to be one of loss and destruction. That saddens me so I hope that the future will be brighter than you expect.
That somehow, this huge movement of people calling out for immediate...

To my little men, Barnaby and Hugo,

I’m writing to you in the hope that you’re living in a world where kindness towards other people, animals and nature is simply a way of life. I grew up in the countryside, as you did, and I’m forever grateful that like you, I had a childhood that was immersed in nature, where I learned that we are simply another species, part of the animal kingdom not set apart from it...

Tom & James,

We’re in terrifying times. But we groove on. You’re both still, at 22 & 25, finding your path and trying to avoid distractions, or embrace those same distractions and hope they’re worth it. Well fair play to you.

We too are trying to find our way, it never ends. I know you both understand that our love for you is everlasting. Whilst I am prepared to...

To my Great Grandchildren Eve and Adam,

If you wonder whatever happened to Eden, it was me... and us... and all of us in the years before you. Sorry seems such a flimsy word compared to what you see around you in your day.

To be honest we never stopped driving up 'Growth' but it was the wrong kind of growth where nature's flourishing came second to personal wealth. I wonder what has trickled down to...

Whoever is left,

Children of the 1980s were taught in school about global warming and the need to switch to renewable energy. They were taught about deforestation, and the animals being wiped out by humans.

They expected the grownups to take action.

Now they are the grownups.

What will the children of the 2090s be taught? Will they learn about...

To those who come after me,

I can only apologise to all who come after me and have to deal with a world that has been damaged by my generation and previous generations. We understood too late what we had been doing to our beautiful planet. Important science was withheld by those with their own agenda, and when the truth of the damage we had inflicted was undeniable, those in power still chose to put...

To my son, Alexander ,

I would like your future to embody a world where the frenetic pace of change has slowed. Where there can be a more measured, reflective approach in policy making, not solely based on reactive, materialistic responses.

Where there is a greater understanding and emphasis on long term decision making, taking into account a global view of climate needs and the...

To my grandchildren ,

May your future be as protected with justice for all,
Many blessings
Nana xxxxxxxxx

Grandson,

Your Grandchildren's future flourishing depends on our planet. Oh how I wish my generation put their future ahead of our 'progress'.
We didn't need travel as much as you need clean air-but we travelled and polluted your
air anyway.
We didn't need building developments as much as we needed fertile land to grow food to feed you- but we built and destroyed...

Liz Truss Prime Minister,

action is needed, to tackle climate change, so we can live well and a healthier future.
we need a better future of renewable energy.

To the future earth,

I hope you're still green, i hope you're still blue. I hope you're still full of biodiversity and love as you are today, if not more.

I am grateful for the air that i breath and the earth that we all walk on. You are our reason for living, for experiencing things and loving things. I am grateful that i get to experience and love you now, before climate change...

To my children Isla and Alex ,

I desperately pray that in 2030, your teenage years are filled with hope, rather than despair.
That our country has made a massive transition to becoming carbon neutral, and with it a huge cultural and societal shift. We shall be powered fully by renewable sources; our homes will be warm and insulated; we will have greater connected communities with locally grown...

To all unborn children and the young of today,

I do not have any children of my own but I fear for future generations and the young of today as the effects of climate change become more evident. The destruction already done to the environment and the long term effects of modern farming practices, deforestation and ocean pollution are becoming alarming and unforgivable.
The effect of this on the poorest nations of...

My grandchildren ,

I grew and learnt about life in a different era a different time. Already the generations before me started to take the values of this earth not just to survive. They persecuted they in slaved they stripped and stole identities. They created war on war where generations suffered. What I see what I believe is we have learnt nothing. We continue to take away destroy all our...

Dear UK citizens and fellow Britons,

Climate change is a threat that affects us all and especially our children and future generations.

Although government can set the policies needed to ameliorate the situation, we must collectively contribute.

I am asking you to please stop leaving your motor engines on while waiting for someone, reading or hanging out in your car. I see so much...

To my unborn daughter,

I'll admit, even the decision to bring you into the world was a tough one. You're not even born yet but you've been through heatwaves, floods and an energy crisis.

Children haven't created this future but they will inherit it. We owe it to you to do everything we can to create a safer, greener, fairer future.

Adults need to take action now - we...

To my future grandchild ,

My dear one

I don't know you yet but I hope one day I will. I wonder what the world will be like for you. I hope and pray you will be able to enjoy fresh air, green fields, birdsong and walking in the woods, as I have done.

I am afraid the world will not be such a good place for you. I am sorry we haven't done more to safeguard our planet, to...

To my daughter, Anna,

You deserve a lovely future, as do all young people.
My big wish for the future is that there'll be justice, compassion, integrity and wisdom to tackle the problems the world is facing, including climate change. Sometimes it looks bleak but there's lots of good stuff out there too. I'll work with others to help you realise your dreams - and those of other young...

To all the children and young people that I love,

I want you to know that we really tried. To sound the alarm on climate change. Loads of us. Loads of us who knew that a planet fit for you who were coming afterwards was at risk. We tried to talk to large companies even though they were so obsessed with making profit that they often forgot about the damage it was causing. We tried to talk to politicians even as they talked...

To my wife to be, unknown ,

To fly so far, so fast
And land so gently

Upon a panel on planet Earth

Eight and a third minutes old
And worth its weightlessness in gold

Fallen, faded and cooled

Then to be told,
‘Oi Sweetie. Get your coat on.
You’ve been pulled.’

To my grandchildren ,

We tried. I hope we succeeded. We saw what the politicians wouldn’t - that we are all past, present and future custodians of this fragile and beautiful planet.

Yes, we have to eat. Yes, we shouldn’t go backwards. Yes, we need to look at our own way of life before condemning others. That’s why I I buy as organic and plastic-free as possible. That’s why...

My darling granddaughter Roisin,

I am so concerned about what is happening to our planet. I have always loved nature , it has been so important to me.
I have been campaigning and supporting ways to protect nature since I was 8 years old.
I want to let you know that I will and have been ceaselessly campaigning so that you can have a future on this beautiful planet .
Without action from...

To Liz Truss PM,

Dear Prime Minister,

I would like you to leave a greener, more sustainable world at the end of your term as PM. I would like my children and grandchildren to inherit a more sustainable planet so that they have a positive future to look forward to. Please use your position to make our country a world leader in conserving our ecosystems, wildlife, planet and the...

To my Great Nephew who was born today,

Welcome to the World !

I want to tell you about Climate Change. This planet is utterly beautiful with all the resources human beings could ever need. But we got too greedy, wanted too much and ended up changing the climate through burning too much fossil fuels. As a result we brought upon ourselves our very own destruction. The animals and plants that share the...

To my husband's grandchildren, Arlo, Susanna, Seth, Morus and Samuel and to my first cousin once removed, Cadi,

Dear children,

We think you are great, and we love you very much.

We hope and pray that all the grown ups will do the right thing and leave you a world which you can enjoy and where there is enough food and water for everyone. We hope that you will be able to enjoy all the animals we have been able to enjoy. We hope that you won't have to watch...

To my young friend Elsie,

Hi Elsie,
When I was young I was lucky to be surrounded by wildlife.
The countryside was full of living ponds, huge flocks of starlings, butterflies and many insects.
I want you to have that chance in the future.
We live on a fragile and beautiful planet and our politicians have to work to protect it.
I am writing this to you in hope that...

My daughter Sam,

When you reach my age I don't want you to witness the mass human exodus caused by countries being rendered unliveable by rising sea levels and unbearably hot climates

To the future not yet born,

To the future yet unborn, this is just to say;

You may well wonder why governments’ past seemed not to care
and closed their eyes and ears leaving the damage for you to repair.

You may wonder why the people past did nothing to alleviate your fate;
please believe there were those that tried, yet many denied until it was too late.

To my sons and daughters and their sons and daughters and their sons and daughters,

Let's hope that the Governments of the World continue to work together to protect our planet as best they can; both now and in the future.

To my nephew Johann,

I hope as you are reading this as a grown up that you are living in a world that has already changed radically to combat and even reverse climate change. I hope you are not looking back at this generation and wondering how the politicians could have been so blinkered to cause life on this planet to decline despite clear science. I hope that oil and gas stopped being taken out...

To my Grandchildren,

Today a sparrow hawk landed on the fence right outside my kitchen window, I could not believe my eyes and before I could call Gramps to verify the bird of prey, it had gone!

I hope in the years to come that you too will witness the sight of a sparrow hawk or one of the many other species of bird, animal, flora and fauna that this amazing earth has created. BUT,...

To the generation NOW and those to come ,

Dear readers;
If ALL of us don’t do anything to protect our Mother Earth 🌎 we will be on the brink of extinction sooner than you think.
Consumption CONSUMPTION = WASTE in all the aspects; from the production to the wasteland. Think twice before a purchase!
Invest in renewable energy and make sure new trees are planted constantly ; the ozone layer is...

To my three young granddaughters ,

I am praying that the worlds political leaders, most of whom are likely to have grandchildren, will agree to deal properly with climate change and give to you and others like you a future to look forward to.
Your loving granddad
x

To the son/daughter I never had,

I hope you can forgive me for not giving you a chance for a human life on Earth, but we were approaching 8 billion people on this overcrowded planet and there was simply not the will to make any meaningful difference to a way of life that had to change. I would have loved to have raised you and maybe even pass on some good values, but knowing that having one less child was the...

To my granddaughter, Willow,

I hope that we have succeeded in protecting the Planet Earth which you love, by reducing carbon dioxide to net zero. Together we have planted trees and campaigned against the use of fossil fuels, we have asked for more wind turbines and coastal energy capture and solar panels. We have urged the Government to support insulation of homes and other buildings to conserve energy....

To My Daughter Sarah and my son Ben,

This letter letter is to apologise you my children and all the people in the world of you age that I and my generation have failed to save your future.

We need you now to take over this vast burden which will be far far worse than if it had been tackled years ago.

This letter will be also sent to The Prime Minister and the Leader of the...

To my future self,

When I am in my eighties and asked to say what I did to help the climate crisis, I am afraid that my answer could well be” not enough”. How sad is that. But the problem seems so big that the actions of one person can’t make a difference.

However these few lines are an inspiration to be the somebody who does something, and you can do. That way everybody can...

Dear future world,

I think we have realised so so late that our acts, our desires, our cleverness of previous and current generations have been great but at the detriment of our beautiful and wise planet.
I know we can put that cleverness to good use NOW though to really make substantial changes to help save our planet for the future. I've tried to make changes that I can, and I know...

To my son & daughter,

Firstly, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry I brought you into a world where money and progress is more important than our precious, beautiful, natural world. I’m sorry that there are things I’ve seen and experienced that you may never know because of climate change. I’m sorry that all the efforts I have made to change how we live may well be in vain and it might just be too...

To my sister, Laura ,

I hope that politicians have once and for all ended all permissions and subsidies for new fossil fuel exploration. They have used the money saved to invest in renewable energy and transferring workers from the fossil fuel sector to green jobs.

The global temperature rise has been capped at 1.5 degrees and droughts, flooding, landslides and other ecological...

To my daughters Edie & Winnie ,

Dear Girls,
As your are now 17 & 18 years of your life I hope you have a promising future ahead with bright skies, breathing clean air!
A world with lots of trees alive with the sound of birds, solar panels on every roof and the horizon interspersed with wind turbines, electric cars (although one per household because people have realised that it is far...

To my granddaughter Ruby ,

I just want to say sorry for the damage we have caused to this awesome earth. Sorry for buying stuff I didn't need, sorry for everything I wasted, sorry for all the selfishness and greed and especially sorry for leaving the mess your generation will have to clean up. Learn from the mistakes of my generation sweetheart, cherish and care for this beautiful world , it truly is a...

to my nephew's and neices,

I know when you were young in 2020 you worried about what the grownups were doing to the planet. Now you are grownup you have to deal with our inaction.

We have been too comfortable to want to change our ways. We have been building nuclear power plants rather than looking the problems they are having in France, cutting consumption and seeking environmentally...

To the future,

If there is any kind of human civilisation surviving in the future, then I hope you have better leaders with more bravery, foresight and intelligence than the current crop of world leaders we were burdened with.
It may be difficult to believe but there are so many people around the Earth who work and campaign for a better, fairer,decent world in which wildlife and the...

Dear future humans ,

I hope you read this and animal no longer go extinct,the oceans are no longer drowning in plastic, renewables are the only energy sources you know, this planet is no longer on the verge of man made self destruction. I hope you are proud of the world you and everyone before you helped shape and I hope you protect it.

To my grand daughters. Zoe Lydya And Sophia,

I am writing this letter to my grand daughters. Zoe Lydia and Sophia And all the young people of the world. Whose future we have to protect Our planet us changing. Becouse what is happening know. We have destroyed our rain forest nearly. I see us being polluted. By people who think it is OK to throw Rubbish in it. Like plastics. That are destroying the refs. And the Fish and...

Helen, Siblings, Children, Grands and future generations if there be any, together with friends in South Africa,,

I apologise for typing what should be a personal letter but this is written obliquely to you and to the PM and Leader of the Opposition as part of a project called “Letters to tomorrow”.

The elder ones amongst you will know that I am very concerned about the state we are already in and making worse. Our environment is changing from that I enjoyed as a...

Annette Elizabeth Ray,

We share four lovely granddaughters and we wish them the very best for the future.Can you imagine Ava,Faith,Sylvia,Ruby living in a world where there are silent springs,and horrendous summers with storms and intense heat.Can you imagine they will live in a world of food shortages and strange viruses happening all the time.This is going to be a reality and the world needs to...

Current political leaders of the UK 2030,

If you are now in a position to save our planet , please please don’t be as selfish and complaisant as our current so called leaders
I cannot see anything but self satisfying policies and blatant lies.
I no longer have faith in them and I am so so angry .
It seems they are happy to allow standards of food production and protection of animals to be...

Dear Frances and Liberty,

Both of you have been named for freedom and I long that your future and your childrens' future will be filled with freedom and joy in a beautiful, sustainable, cherished environment.
I pray that unnatural floods, storms, fires and heatwaves will be things you will read about in history books, that your parents and grandparents will tell you about one day. That they will...

To my grand daughter,

I tried to get the powers that be to take climate change seriously.

To all who share this amazing planet ,