Let’s honor the EARTH this Earth Day. We call it Mother Earth for a reason. . . Without it, there would be no us, no animals, no nature, no nothing!
Earth is our source. It is our square one. It is so completely and utterly our everything that we often (most of the time, and for some of us all the time) take it for granted.
“We just didn’t realize how special the earth was / Like a marriage gone wrong / We didn’t know what we had / Until it was gone.”
Richard Williams, who goes by the name of Prince EA, is a spoken word poet, rapper, and activist. He is also a renowned filmmaker, speaker, and researcher.
Prince EA has been featured on Oprah Supersoul 100, Forbes 30 Under 30, and Oprah calls his work a “powerful message, visionary filmmaker.”
This video is a tough act to follow, because it speaks all the truth, all the sentiment, and all the tribute that could possibly be told for planet Earth (and what we’re doing to it). This is a powerful message from a powerful artist, and an important message to share.
Here are the lyrics from Prince EA’s video:
Dear Future GenerationsI think I speak for the rest of us when I saySorry, sorry we left you with our mess of a planetSorry that we were too caught up in our own doings to do somethingSorry we listened to people who made excusesTo do nothingI hope you forgive usWe just didn’t realize how special the earth wasLike a marriage going wrongWe didn’t know what we had until it was gone
For exampleI’m guessing you probably know what is the Amazon Desert, right?Well believe it or notIt was once called the Amazon Rain ForestAnd there were billions of trees thereAnd all of them gorgeous and just um..Oh, you don’t know much about trees, do you?Well let me tell you trees are amazingAnd I mean, we literally breath the airThey are creating, and they clean up our pollutionOur carbon, they store and purify waterGive us medicine that cures ours diseases, food that feeds usWhich is why I am so sorry, to tell you thatWe burned them downCut them down with brutal machines, horrificAt a rate of 40 football fields every minuteThat’s 50% of all the trees in the world all goneIn the last 100 yearsWhy? For this.
And that wouldn’t make me so sadIf there weren’t so many pictures of leaves on itYou know when I was a childI read how the Native Americans had such considerationFor the planet that they felt responsibleFor how they left the land for the next 7 generationsWhich brings me great sorrow, because most of us todayDon’t even care about tomorrowSo I’m sorry, I’m sorry that we put profit above peopleGreed above need, the rule of gold above the golden ruleI’m sorry we used nature as a credit card with no spending limitOver drafting animals to extinctionStealing your chance to ever see their uniquenessOr become friends with themSorry we poison the oceans so much that you can’t even swim in themBut most of all, i’m sorry about our mindset’cause we had the nerve to call this destruction“Progress”
Hey Fox News, if you don’t think climate change is a threatI dare you to interview the thousands of homeless people in BangladeshSee, while you was in your penthouse nestledTheir homes were literally washed awayBeneath their feet due to the rising sea levelsAnd Sara Palin, you said that you love the smell of fossil fuelsWell I urge you to talk to the kids of BeijingWho are forced to wear pollution masks just to go to schoolSee, you can ignore this, but the thing about truth isIt can be denied, not avoidedSo I’m sorry future generationI’m sorry that our footprints became a sinkhole and not a gardenI’m sorry that we paid so much attention to ISISAnd very little how fast the ice is melting in the arcticI’m sorry we doomed youAnd I’m sorry we didn’t find another planet in time to move toI am s…
You know what, cut the beat, I’m not sorryThis future I do not accept itBecause an error does not become a mistakeUntil you refuse to correct itWe can redirect this, how?Let me suggest that if a farmer sees a tree that is unhealthyThey don’t look at the branches to diagnosis itThey look at the root, so like that farmerWe must look at the rootAnd not to the branches of the governmentNot to the politicians run by corporationsWe are the root, we are the foundation, this generationIt is up to us to take care of this planetIt is our only home, we must globally warm our heartsAnd change the climate of our soulsAnd realize that we are not apart from natureWe are a part of natureAnd to betray nature is to betray usTo save nature, is to save usBecause whatever you’re fighting for:Racism, Poverty, Feminism, Gay RightsOr any type of EqualityIt won’t matter in the leastBecause if we don’t all work together to save the environmentWe will be equally extinct.
Sorry.
(Lyrics sourced from genius.com)
Happy Earth Day! Let’s Turn It Into Earth Day Every Day
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It is encouraging to see influential artists like Prince EA take a stand and use their voice to spread awareness and inspire action. We as individuals have the power to share this message and take climate action now.
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