Letter to Mother Earth

Dear Mother Earth,

                How are you? I know it’s quiet hard to live for billions of years and to be in your shoes at present is not an easy task. I know, you’re badly hurt. Trees are lying in the rivers, mudslides, flashfloods and super typhoons keep coming. Drought becomes drier and drier and many other disastrous events worsen.

 Global Warming- That’s the sad truth we are facing right now. A phenomenon that returns the consequences we haven’t taken for the past few decades. A phenomenon that would slowly help to the extinction of men. Would you wait for the moment it would make you suffer before doing something?

                Scientists have made studies. According to them, you could still live for another three billion years. The question is, will this three billion years would still be possible? Or if it will be possible, will it be years full of pollution and disasters?

No one wants you to go but not all have the sympathy we have for you. Others are still doing what they do even if they know they are hurting others, especially you. Factories emit darker smokes and deadlier toxics in their chemical processes. It is right that with innovation, these changes are included but they must have their conscience working to lessen or if possible, prevent its disastrous effects.

                We, Filipinos of the modern age are doing something. Doing small little steps that when combined together would help a lot. Little things like disposing a piece of candy wrapper properly help a lot. Segregation of trashes shall also be done. Trees must multiply rapidly with the help of men. We should be your caretaker not the destroyer of God’s beautiful creations.

                Let us remember, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. Let us not wait for our doom before we make any action. Take an action before it is too late. There is still enough hope to save you, don’t ever lose hope, our only Mother Earth.

Sincerely,

Benedict Mendoza