What will they remember? A polemic.

What will future generations think of ours? Of the human cohort alive in early 21C?

Will they damn us for the hell we handed them?

Will they topple our monuments?  Strip brass plaques from hospital wings, library shelves, and museum collections? Scrape names off tombstones?

Will they look at our Facebook feeds, persisting long after our deaths, and name us one by one for our callous, willful indifference.

We are giving them a desecrated planet, stripped bare, mined, denuded and polluted.

The innumerable miracles that are species on this planet are going extinct faster than any other period in the earth's 4 billion year history. We kill and kill and kill and kill and kill and kill. The slaughterhouse that makes the sausage links is right over there. Humans exceed the most fiery asteroid.

We are sliding toward an event horizon. Unchecked climate chaos will kill more people than all wars.

The seas will putrefy. Storms will level forest and building. Plagues and famines will empty cities. Fires will consume drought stricken forests. Floods will sweep away the charred soil. What we built, we will struggle to rebuild. No tree will know when to blossom and no bee where to fly.

It's not just the climate. The seas are already 30% more acidic and that number is destined to climb for decades. Ecosystems have been diced into small disconnected parcels that will make it impossible for species to migrate as the climate shifts habitats northward and upward. Nature is dying from a thousand wounds.

Has any generation has ever had so much truth at their fingertips but failed to act?

But even now, act.

With each action we open an infinite new set of possibilities. Every action is a statement to your fellow humans. Each act slows the train that's hurling towards the cliff. Despair is almost a greater act of arrogance than inaction. If you take steps with intention then impossible odds slowly improve. The impossible becomes real.

Even now, act, change, evolve. Respond to the information manifest before you. Anything less makes you less than human.