Ang Peregrino Recommends 86: Love Letters To The Future

Love Let­ters To The Future
URL: http://​www​.lovelet​ter​stothe​fu​ture​.com/

Lovelet­ters to the Future is a project by Dr. David Suzuki, an award win­ning Cana­dian sci­en­tist, geneti­cist, author and envi­ron­men­tal activist. He is best known for over 45 books mostly for chil­dren, explain­ing com­plex sci­ence in sim­ple terms.

The con­cept is sim­ple: if you could make a mes­sage to your great grand chil­dren about the planet, what would it be? Send a mes­sage, make a video, write a let­ter, post a pic­ture. Tell the future what it is like for us. And tell the future about our fears and our desires for a bet­ter world.

It is a good study, this let­ter writ­ing thing. When I first went to the site, I tried to cat­e­go­rize the mes­sages into log­i­cal groups. There’s a whole group try­ing to blame peo­ple for destroy­ing the earth. And then there’s another group remind­ing the rest that peo­ple are still fight­ing for the envi­ron­ment, although admit­tedly, it could be bet­ter. Then there’s a whole group show­ing the future what we expe­ri­ence as nature today, and hop­ing that the future would have their own beauty to expe­ri­ence. And then there’s a whole slew of I LOVE YOU mes­sages to the future.

And I think that is how we’ve been deal­ing with the future ever since. Peo­ple have tried to blame the past or the present for the future, or seen hope amidst the dif­fi­cul­ties, or dealt in nos­tal­gia, or just plain focused on love.

Check it out. And leave your own message.