Dear future generations.

A spoken word poetry by Prince EA

Dear future generations,

I think I speak for the rest of us, when I say “sorry”.

Sorry, we left you with our mess of a planet.

Sorry, we were too caught up in our own doings, to do something.

Sorry, we listen to the people who make excuses, to do nothing.

I hope you forgive us.

We just didn't realize how special the earth was. Like a marriage gone wrong. We didn't know what we have, until it was gone. For example, I'm guessing you probably know what is the Amazon dessert, right? Well, I believe back then it was called Amazon rain forest. Then, there were billions of trees. There all of them gorgeous, and... oh, you don't know much about trees, do you?

Well, let me tell you. Trees are amazing. I mean, we literally breathe the air they are creating. They clean up our pollution and our carbon. They store and purify water. Give us medicine that cures our diseases, food that feed us. Which is why I’m so sorry, to tell you that. We burnt them down. Cut them down with brutal machines horrific. At a rate of 40 football fields every minutes. That’s 50% of all the trees in the world Gone in the last 100 years. Why? For this, money. And that wouldn’t make me so sad, if it weren’t so many pictures of leaves on it.

You know when I was child. I read how the Native American, had such consideration, for the planet. That they felt responsible for how they left the land for the next seven generation. Which bring me great sorrow, because most of us today don’t even care about tomorrow.

Amazon Deforestation

So I’m sorry. I’m sorry that we put profit above people, greed above need, and rule of gold above the golden rule. I’m sorry we use nature as a credit card, with no spending limit. Over drafting animals to extinction, stealing your chance to ever see their uniqueness or become friend with them. Sorry we poisoned the ocean too much, that you can’t even swim in them. But most of all, I’m sorry about our mindset, because we have the nerve to call this destruction, “Progress”.

Hey fox news, if you don’t think climate changes is a threat. I dare you to interview the thousands of homeless people in Bangladesh. See while, while you’re in your penthouse nestle, their home were literally washed away. Beneath their feet due to rising sea levels.

Thousands of Bangladeshis were left homeless after Cyclone Roanu battered (2016)

And Sarah palin you said that you love the smell of fossil fuels. Well, I urged you to talk to the kids of Beijing. Who are forced to wear pollution mask just to go to school.

Beijing Air Pollution hits "Hazardous" Level (2013)

See you can ignore this.

But the thing about truth is, it can be denied not avoided.

So, I’m sorry future generations.

I’m sorry, that our foot prints became a sinkhole and not a garden.

I’m sorry, that we pay so much attention to ISIS and very little to have faced the ice is melting in the Arctic.

I’m sorry that we domed you.

I’m sorry we couldn’t find another planet in time to move to.

I’m....

You know what?

I’m not sorry. This future I do not accept it, because error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. We can redirect it.

How?

Let me suggest it.

If a farmer sees a tree that is unhealthy, they don’t look at the branches to diagnose it. They look at the root. So, like that farmers we must look at the root. Not the branches of government, not to the politician run by corporations. We are the root, we are the foundation of this generation. It is up to us to take care of this planet. It’s our only home. We must globally warm our heart and changes the climate of our souls and realize it, we are not apart from nature. We are a part of nature and to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us.

Because whatever you have fighting for, racism or poverty, feminism, gay right or any type of equality it won’t matter in the least. Because if we don’t do all work together to save the environment, we’ll be equal extinct.

Sorry.

Nowadays, cutting trees make you money. If all the trees had cut, what will you cut next?

#Tahukahkamu, tanggal 10 Januari diperingati sebagai Hari Gerakan Satu Juta Pohon Sedunia? Menanam pohon memiliki banyak manfaat, salah satunya yaitu mengurangi pencemaran lingkungan. Pohon berfungsi menyerap karbondioksida dan menghasilkan oksigen, sehingga akan mengurangi polusi dan pencemaran yang ada di lingkungan kita. Selain itu dengan menanam pohon yang merupakan tandon air dapat mencegah terjadinya banjir. Pohon tidak hanya sebatas ditanam melainkan dijaga keberlangsungannya. Untuk fungsi lingkungan hidup, pemerintah menganggarkan Rp11,9 Triliun dalam Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja Negara (APBN) 2017, meningkat dari alokasi dalam APBN Perubahan 2016 yang sebesar Rp11 Triliun.

Lalu, apa saja sasaran kebijakan lingkungan hidup tahun ini? Pertama, terlaksananya pemanfaatan keanekaragaman hayati yang berkelanjutan untuk kegiatan ekonomi. Kedua, meningkatnya kualitas lingkungan hidup yang tercermin dalam indeks kualitas lingkungan hidup. Ketiga, menguatnya upaya penanganan perubahan iklim (mitigasi dan adaptasi) dan sistem peringatan dini cuaca dan iklim. Yuk, kita benahi alam kita! Selamat hari #GerakanSatujutaPohonSedunia#KekayaanIndonesia #KekayaanAlam

Bukan hanya di Amazon, Bangladesh dan Beijing, Indonesia was actually suffering the same things. Hutan-hutan dibakar dengan alasan membuka lahan hingga menyebabkan kabut asap berkepanjangan. Pohon ditebang untuk dimanfaatkan kayunya karena harganya yang mahal. It is true that we are using nature as a credit card with no spending limit. Mungkin memang tidak semua orang, dan beberapa orang masih berjuang memerangi illegal logging seperti ini.

So yeah, there are three kind of people. Some they do illegal logging, some against and fight that illegal logging and the other don't even care what the hell illegal logging or climate change is. So, which side are you in?

Child in Riau wearing a mask just to go to school (2016)

Kondisi Hutan di Riau saat kebakaran terjadi (2016)

Ps: Lagi suka banget sama Spoken Word Poetry >,< Jadilah ku post di sini. Menurutku ini juga bisa jadi cara lho buat latihan ngomong Bahasa Inggris HAHAHA Kayaknya aku bakal sering nge-post Spoken Word Poetry deh. because I like it, nanana~

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Check out Prince Ea videos when performing this spoken word poetry bellow:

 

Nonton Ini kuyyyy~
Film dokumentasinya si Leornado D. Caprio x National Geographic. Judulnya :

                                        Before the flood
 "Undoubtedly, the most emotive scientific documentary that have ever created."

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