Dear Nature

Dear Nature,

You are our strongest asset. Whether it be the waterfalls that glorify thousands of adventurers or the snowy caps of the alps, humankind is indebted to you. You are the fruit in which all profit is based around. We are purely indebted to you. 

This letter is of celebration, and of remorse. We have not found you in good health. Your most prized possessions are placed at the bottoms of our heaps of trash. Our man made creations have defied your goodness, and for that we are sorry. How else do you expect us to live? If not driving in an expensive car or harvesting your greatest resources, how else should we live? I know not of what it does to you but rather, I’m sad to say the superiority of our conquest outweighs the balance of your consequences.  Again, we are sorry it had to be like this. We are sorry your poles are met with frost bite, an end of times, an Anti-Ice Age. We like the summer better anyways. We are sorry your creation chokes on our plastic; but what else do you expect when you place them in our dumping grounds? Straws are essential to survival, hard shelled fish are not. 

And yes, you will be angry. But don’t take that out on us. We don’t deserve your fiery July, is 105 degrees worth it? And why must you take the polar bears with you. People like them in the zoos. You’ve opened Sea World up for debate; it’s just entertainment. No big deal. No harm, no foul. Can’t you tell the orcas love the applause? Sea World is a prized and harmless possession, don’t you agree? 

I hope there are no hard feelings. Have you seen all the good we’ve done for you! All the activists, the marches, the movements in your honor! 

Sincerely yours,

Humankind