Dear Mr. Prime Minister, and all those it may concern,
Do you know how it feels to watch politicians gamble with a future they likely won’t have to live in? Do you know how it feels to watch companies kill the planet you will inherit? Do you know how hard it is to be powerless to vote out people who value money over your life? Do you know how hard it is to be promised a chance at a future only to be told that those in charge have failed to do what they promised? Do you know how hard it is to have to go about your daily life knowing the people in charge don’t care enough about you to give you a chance at a livable future?
I’m fourteen, and people my age are often told to think of their futures. ‘Don’t do drugs; think of your future!’ ‘Get good grades for your future!’ But sometimes I wonder if we kids are the only ones who think of the future.
The Climate Crisis is an issue of the future that is more quickly than we’d like becoming an issue of today. I’m fourteen and what we do or don’t do today will seriously affect me. I, and every other child on the planet, have a right to a livable future and not doing everything you can to protect it is a crime against children. A crime against humanity.
I hope you have a wonderful day,
Amelia Penney-Crocker