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Dear United States of America! I hope I will never have to send this letter to my youngest son. The letter to my son: From those of us who knew what was happening but never changed - This letter is to be opened if you live to the age I was when you were born - You and I. Our birthdays are four days apart. When you read this in the year 2060, I’ll be 81. You’ll be 42. Maybe we’ll both still be alive? Maybe we’ve been trying to survive in a dying world where catastrophes have become the norm. This letter is dedicated to you, and I don’t know how to say this. I’m so sorry. I don’t know what else to say. Because even though I did everything I could, it wasn’t enough. Not enough to give you what we got. A world to stand on. Everyone thought it could be done later. But there was no later. Later is now. And now it’s you! It’s your turn, but there’s nothing left to stand on. No future generations that can pay. You have to pay. And the price. Yes, we already knew what the price was. The price was unthinkably high. A price that can never be paid. When you were born, I looked into your deep blue eyes. Your calm. Your peace and innocence. You entered the world without demands. You came to me full of life, and I stared at you in wonder. So frail. So new. So full of trust. I took you into my arms. Kept you warm. We gazed at each other. That was the strongest experience I’ve ever had. I caught a glimpse of the infinite. I gazed into eternity. Everyone who’d come before and everyone who’ll come after. I felt unconditional love. The divine. The eternal. Everything at once. Yes, I really did experience all that. When I held you in my arms. But you won’t be able to experience any of that. Your generation stopped. You stopped bringing new life into the world because you understood the unfathomable. The debt was too great. The debt was unpayable. No one could manage that burden. You didn’t want to pass the debt on to anyone else. Because you know it can never be paid. Perhaps you blame us for not doing this. Perhaps you blame us for pawning all those things that can’t be bought. Perhaps you blame us for not saving anything. Because everything has run out. No money in the world can buy what you need. It was the greatest gift we ever received. And we threw it away. Your grandmother understood. Because her time ran out too soon. It ran out when the cancer spread, before you were even born. It took her liver, spread through the blood. The brain. It was over soon. But she never lost hope. She used every minute right until her final moment. I still remember exactly how she held my hand when she drifted away, at peace in the knowledge that we will always be here. In the knowledge that you, my son, was going to be born and the fragile, the indestructible, would be passed on. But you’ll never be able to find this peace. Because no one will remember who you were. No one will safely hold your hand in your final moments. No one will hold a newborn in their arms. Because there will be no one left. Ever. Because amongst all the billions of stars, amongst all the thousands of planets we’ve discovered, we couldn’t find one like ours. There was no planet that still had time. Still had life. We never understood that we were the only ones. We never understood that eternity would die with us. Not just our species, but that once the world started to boil it was unstoppable. We didn’t know it was so bad. We thought things would be difficult for you. We even knew that billions of people would die. That most species would die out. But we still thought we’d make it. That we somehow were the lucky few. And that there was more time. That the temperatures would rise gradually. Not that the planet would start to boil when temperatures had just increased by a few degrees. We never listened to those who already knew. Because we were listening to someone else. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry that you had to see the coral reefs die. That the fish died out and that you now know that the seas will start to boil. I’m sorry that so many insects died out even while you were still a child. I’m sorry that all the birds then became silent. I’m so sorry we never stopped the destruction. I’m so sorry. ....... I wrote this letter during election night 2020. It shouldn’t be like this. We don’t know yet if the climate denier Donald Trump will regain the confidence of the American people to govern the USA. But we do know that the election was not about the climate because if it were, the world’s most powerful country would never have got this close to be the only one to leave the Paris agreement. At a time like this, it would be easy to give up. But if you really understand what the climate crisis is all about, that option doesn’t even exist. To give up would be treachery, not just against our own children but against all of humanity. I founded WeDontHaveTime.org and #WeDontHaveTime four years ago, after the election night in November 2016. We didn’t have time to wait then, and we have even less time to wait now. Many people have understood this. But unfortunately, more and more people are losing hope that change is possible. That’s not the case. There just needs to be more of us. Change is coming, but we don’t have time to wait. I urge all my followers, all companies, all organizations and all those who fight for the climate and our planet to stand up for our future and make the most important climate pledge of all: #NeverGiveIn Giving in is not an option. Never, ever. Period. The more of us that stand up for this, the more action we’ll see and the more hope we’ll feel. And the more of us we’ll become! We have all the solutions, more people need to become active, and then more and more will join us. Together we are the solution to the climate crisis.’I want to quote Winston Churchill’s famous speech from 29 October 1941, when things were at their darkest for the Allies. “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” Help me to never have to send my letter. Fighting for our future is not a choice. It’s an obligation. Therefore — please repeat after me — I pledge #NeverGiveIn Because — If we don’t give in. They can never win! // Ingmar Rentzhog Founder of We Don’t Have Time — The world’s largest social network for climate action. Our mission is to connect everyone that wants to solve the climate crisis. Join us today at wedonthavetime.org Please show your support. Use the hashtag #NeverGiveIn and share this story with everyone you know and care about.
From an album to engage the mainstream on climate: Track ‘Daughter’ by ISYLA: LINK HERE: https://youtu.be/cDM3qUGXc6s This was the first song I wrote, the day after singer Lizzie and I decided to make music for climate. I had a then four year old daughter. I hoped listeners would connect with the idea of us being accountable to the little humans we most love and strive to protect. For many climate change seems like a distant problem that they (yet) don’t need to engage with, though clearly it is not. Being a parent I connect deeply with the future, my mortality and my responsibilities to younger generations and I hope this song sparks the same in others. Where She Walks by ISYLA is available to stream on most music platforms and YouTube. ABOUT US: Www.isyla.org/about LISTEN TO OUR ALBUM: Www.isyla.org/music SEE OUR VIDEOS: Www.isyla.org/videos
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Thankyou for that tribute
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Thanks so much!! We have a great videographer!!! X
Track Mr Podium: LINK HERE: https://youtu.be/hquJtFYRwUk I wanted to shine a light on the erosion of truth in politics. How will people be motivated to act or vote for people who headline the environment if they are being told there is no cause for concern? I try hard in my lyrics to unite and search for commonalities rather than to divide. I am not sure if I succeeded or not here?! But I chose to imagine what a one to one discussion could look like with ego somewhat removed from the room. Mr Podium is from ISYLA’s climate focused album Where She Walks out all platforms. Singer Lizzie pictured below. Www.isyla.org/music @isyla_official
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Totally agree. Well put! We must protect the truth
Hello folks, I am Amy, a songwriter and mum of two! We are ISYLA (iz-eye-la). 19 year old singer Lizzie and I meet in January through extinction rebellion and decided to create professionally produced music to engage a mainstream audience on climate. Our folk/indie/electro album Where She Walks (out now any platform Spotify iTunes etc) was both designed for an audience already engaged on climate and to nudge the needle for the ‘nearly’ engaged. Hope it’s okay but I’m planning to post some little intros to the tracks/videos here?? Keep fighting the good fight!! 💚🌍 WEBSITE and SOCIALS www.isyla.org @isyla_official (Instagram and Twitter) @isyla.official (Facebook)
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Welcome
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Hello Miguel! Thanks so much for getting in touch. We have worked so far with a videographer to produce some videos. We would absolutely love our songs to appear in films etc as it would be a great way to spread the message. If you want to keep in touch you can email us at the email address on our website. Our videos are also there :-) Can I see any of your work somehow?! www.isyla.org xxx
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Ps if anyone reading likes the music and can support on getting it out please let us know. We are total newbies to the music industry! Thank uuuu! Xxxx
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Hi, I am an instrumentalist (piano) and also a film maker (member of Italian film academy). Whenever you plan to add visuals to your music, will be happy to assist you.
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Keep it up
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I will go down fighting for climate. We need to hang tight and get all the votes counted though.
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Yes. But the fact that not enough people care about the climate and our future is depressing. Biden may be winning. But not because of people voting for climate.
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So incredibly beautiful and so incredibly sad. I have a 5 and 7 year old - happy, carefree children who don’t understand what world is waiting for them and it breaks my heart into pieces. Please check out our music for climate. I articulate some of the same sorrow as you here through the lyrics for track 2050 and also Daughter The album is Where She Walks by ISYLA on any streaming platform..link here: www.isyla.org/music. You can follow us on Instagram and Twitter @isyla_official and Facebook @isyla.official if u are on social media. We are trying to reach people through music...Thank you for sharing. Xxxxx