Letter written in the future...
Year: 2070
I have just completed 50 years, but my appearance is of someone of 85. I have serious problems because I can't drink water. I think I have just a little time...
I remember when I was 5 years... There were many trees in the parks. The houses were beautiful gardens and I could enjoy a bath with shower for about one hour. Now we use towels in mineral oil to clean the skin.
Before, my father washed the car with water rising to a hose. Today the boys do not believe that we used the water in that way.
I remember that there were many warnings that were for CARE OF WATER, but no one gave them attention. We thought that water could never finish. Now, all rivers, lakes and aquifers mantles are irreversibly contaminated or exhausted.
Deserts are the landscape around us on all sides .The assault by one liter of water are common on the streets deserted. The food is 80% synthetic.
Before, the amount of water indicated as ideal was to drink eight glasses per day per adult person. Today I can only drink a half of a glass. The clothes are disposable, which greatly increases the amount of waste. We had to go back to the septic tanks as in the last century because the network of drainage doesn't work more for lack of water.
The appearance of the population is horrifying: bodies weakened, wrinkled by the dehydration, abundances of sores in the skin for the ultraviolet beams that already don't have the cap of ozone that was filtering them in the atmosphere. With the drying of the skin, a young of 20 years seems to have 40.
Scientists are investigating, but no solution is possible. We can't manufacture water, oxygen is also degraded by lack of trees, which reduced the rate of new intellectual generations.
The government collects up in the air we breathe: 137 m3 per day per capita adult. Who can't pay is taken from the "ventilated areas, which are endowed with huge mechanical lungs that work with solar energy- There aren't of good quality, but you can breathe. The average age is 35 years. In some countries left patches of vegetation with its own river that is heavily guarded by the army.
Water has become a highly coveted treasure, more than gold or diamonds
Here aren't trees because it almost never rains. And when is a rainfall, is acid rain. The seasons of the year were severely processed by the atomic industry and the pollution of the twentieth century.
They told we had to take care of the environment, but if nobody did it...
When my daughter asks me to talk to her when I was young, I describe how beautiful were the forests. I talk of rain and flowers, the pleasant that it was able to bathe and fish in rivers and dams, drinking all the water you wanted. How we were healthy! And then she asks me: -Dad, why the water ended? So, I feel a knot in the throat! I can't help feeling guilty because I belong to a generation which has just destroy the environment, without paying attention to so many warnings
Now, our children pay a high price ...
Frankly, I believe that life on Earth will no longer be possible within a very short time because the destruction of the environment has reached an irreversible point.
How would I like to go back and make all humanity understand this ... while it was still possible
do something to save our planet Earth!
Be conscious: the water is with water thirst
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