A LETTER TO MOTHER EARTH
A LETTER TO MOTHER EARTH:
Dear mother earth, you have been the only planet that decided to habit us for ages now. When other planet decided to be extremely hot and cold, you decided to mother us in other to welcome our creatures. The creation of your existence was 100% natural; flora, fauna, times and seasons. Resources were in abundance for humans to dwell there in; to conserve and reserve for generations to come. It is disheartening we have overshoot re-occurrence, this time it was early than previous years (July 29, 2019) with an indication that we will be using the remaining part of the month from the future generation resource.
I remember when we relaxed and play on green vegetation and we enjoyed looking forward to all the seasons in the year. The predictions by scientist were fair enough. And when we sow crops, our expectations come real and yet we walk miles without feeling faint or tired. But today, things have changed as everyone now panic when the season comes.
Activists that advocate for the earth have tried their best to make the planet cleaner, greener and productive but the people have failed you in returns. You were created to give life all the support it entails to live but its alarming to know that values attached to human rights and that of nature has been a thing of the past. But we want to change the narrative.
A lot of menace have crippled into the world. We now live everyday thinking of the next line of action to follow. We live in a world where actions are only taken on emergency situation. When the earth demand for rainfall, she receive heat-wave; we are no longer on the same page with you again. Oh! what a terrible disasters.
In as much as the earth is created to be in it fullness and everything therein, yet it is not a guarantee to be misused neither to violate the right of the live on it. What is expected of us is to stabilize the activities and passes on the next generation. In as much as the earth houses us, it’s our duty to keep it safe rather than being exploited. Keeping you safe is everyone responsibility. The 11 years left for actions can’t accommodate any inaction and it is either we loss or we win the race against climate change but we don’t have any reason to loss this race because when we fail you we will go down together and when we win, we rise together.
By Oladosu Adenike (oladosuadenike32@gmail.com)
