An Open Letter on Climate Change
An open letter to the Biden Administration on Climate Change, by Zealous Student Jezi Propst
Dear U.S Government,
I am writing this to inform you about a deathly issue that you guys do not approach seriously. Climate change is killing 3.4 million people a year, and the world is rapidly getting warmer. Out of the Earth’s 14 biomes and 795 ecoregions, humans have negatively impacted 10 biomes and 46 ecoregions. With the temperature rising, we are rapidly destroying coral reefs. Corals cannot survive this heat, and therefore they die, but that’s not the worst of it. Without corals, fish in the reefs cannot survive. 500 million people eat food from the coral reefs, and slowly, you are killing a massive food source, and beautiful ecosystem. The rising temperatures also are causing glaciers to melt. Beside that making the oceans around it cold, when glaciers melt, the ocean rises. You may think a few glaciers are melting are not that bad, but those few glaciers have flooded many cities, which can take away lives of humans, rip up the natural ecosystems around those cities, and completely ruin these towns. Besides that, your mistakes, the mistakes of the people before you, have all been laid in the hands of this generation to fix, when many of us didn’t do anything about this anyway. Earth’s temperature has risen 2o degrees fahrenheit since 1880, which may not seem like much but that is slowly wiping out millions of innocent people, ecosystems, and animals that do not deserve this.
We should not be expected to fix this, but yet we will have to, because the people who are supposed to fix it are too ignorant and stubborn to do anything. Ecosystems are dying, because of you. People are dying because of you. This will not stand, and you will not be forgotten for causing this crisis. Humans will soon be gone, and soon, we might not be able to do anything about it anymore. Do something, because this, this is a problem that young people are concerned about, and we are trying, to help and make a difference. Please, save the ecosystems. Save us.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Sincerely,
Jezi Propst