If you can take 5 minutes out of your day, I highly suggest you watch this video, and try to soak up every word this man says. It's the most eye-opening video I've seen in, ever.
The youtube video titled, "Dear Future Generations, Sorry." is a spoken word rap by environmental activist Prince Ea (Richard Williams). Born in 1988, Williams has made a career in the art of rap, but instead of producing main stream hip hop, he focuses on topics such as politics, environmental activism, and life issues. His stage name, Prince Ea, is even derived from the Sumerian meaning, "Prince of Earth" for goodness sake. This guy wants to make a change in the world, and he sure changed my entire perspective on one of this decade's top issues, the environment.
At the start of the video, the camera examines what looks to be a desert, with a part of a fallen and dead tree in the background. Then Williams enters the frame, and begins with the word "Sorry." What is he so sorry for you may ask? He's sorry for the destruction that previous and current generations have done on our planet earth, to put in plainly. Saying that "(we) were caught up in our own doing, to do something." He exclaims that by the time future generations see this video, they won't know the Amazon Rainforest as a lush and beautiful wonder of the world, but as a desolate wasteland, since we cut down all of it's trees at a rate of 40 football fields every minute. William's says sorry for using nature as a credit card with no spending limit. Most of all, he claims how sorry he is for our mindset because we call this destruction, progress.
In our world today, we all have our own personal issues to deal with. Problems that range from finding our car in the parking lot, to finding where our next meal will come from. The truth is, none of us will have any personal problems to deal with, if we don't have our big beautiful planet to live on. Prince Ea stops towards the end of the video, and takes an optimistic turn. "Truth, it can be denied but not avoided... An error does not become a mistake unless you refuse to correct it." Everyday, millions of people are unaware that they are ruining our ecosystem. Even worse, many people are aware of the damage they are doing, and refuse to do anything about it. Before long we won't be arguing about our personal problems, our issue will be bigger than any of us can handle. The generations of today have the chance to become the new foundation, and to change the world. It starts with awareness, attention, and activism.We have to be the change, we have to start somewhere.
"We are a part of nature, not apart from nature."- Richard Williams
