Richard Williams, who is known as Prince Ea is an American rapper, spoken word artist and civil rights activist. His spoken word poetry has earned him global recognition as a social influencer on peace and civil rights with a focus on education. His spoken word poem, "Dear Future Generations: Sorry" that was released in 2015 was an apology letter to the future generations who would inherit an Earth destroyed irrevocably by climate change.
Prince Ea begins his
'Dear Future Generation: Sorry" by saying, on behalf of the present
generation he apologizes to the future generations for leaving them behind an
uninhabitable earth. It was because of
their indiscriminate use of resources. They didn't realize how special the earth
was. They didn't know what they had until
it was gone. It was their greed that
made the Amazon rain forest, a desert.
There were billions of trees that cleaned up our pollution, stored and
purified our water and fed us. As they
put profit above people, greed over need, the rule of gold above the golden
rule, they destroyed everything. They
never realized how fast the ice was melting in the Arctic. When they realized their mistakes, the earth
had already been damaged to a great extent.
Towards the end of the
poem, Prince Ea shifts his apology into a call of action. He suggests a way to set right things. Instead
of depending the politicians and the government for the care of the planet, the
people should come forward to save the earth.
If we fail to work together to save the environment, we all will be extinct
with the environment.
------Thulasidharan V
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