A letter from 2070
Warning for All Earthlings
This is the year of 2070, I just celebrated my 50th birthday, but I look like a 85 year old man. I didn't take in the adequate amount of water, so I got a serious kidney disease, I don't think I can live any much longer. I was amongst the oldest in humankind now.
I remember when I was 5, everything was totally different from now. At that time, the local park's pond was filled with water, every house had a beautiful garden and we can enjoy a half an hour's shower. But now we use mineral oil to clean up ourselves.
At that time, all women had pretty hair. But now, they are bald as there isn't enough water to wash their hair. At that time, my father used a water hose to wash his car. But now, my son wouldn't even believe that there's this way to wash a car.
I remembered at that time there were posters and advertisments that warn us to save water, but noone paid attention to it.Now, all the water is either dried up or polluted.
The industrial field stopped, the chance to lose work is high. Now planting some plants that can get rid of salt is the main role of work. Labours would get some water to exchange with part of their salary. At the street, the main cause of a fight is mainly because of a small can of water. Now, 80% of the food is man made canned food.
When I was small, the scientist recommend us to drink 8 large cups of water a day. Now, we could only drink half a cup of water a day. Now we can only use shirts that can be easily cleaned as there isn't enough water but this increases the load of rubbish we have now.
Now everyone looks scary as the lack of water caused wrinkles appear. Too much of ultraviolet rays have caused pain to us, the ozone layer was now almost gone. Skin cancer, respiration system disease and urinal system disease are now the main cause of death now.
As our skin are now too dry, a 20 year old man looks like a 40 year old man. Scientists have been troubling to seek cure for this problem, but to no avail. Water can't be created, the lack of trees and plants has caused the lack of oxygen in the atmosphere. The younger generation ability of understanding has been damaged.
Now, the average life has dropped to 35 years old. Water has become everyone's treasure. All rivers has been heavily guarded by security guards. As planet Earth now rains seldomly, so there are no trees. Even if it rains, it would be acid rains.We've been warned to protect the environment, but no one seems to care.
I've told my son about the green meadows, all the flowers and rain that we had before. We could swim and fish in any lake or rivers, and we could drink as much water as we like.
My son asked: "Daddy, why is there no water now?"
I felt so guilty! Because of my generation that has destroyed the environment, we didn't even bother about any warnings. And now, our future generation has to pay!
I think, soon enough, we couldn't live on planet Earth anymore. I wish we could go back to the past, to let people understand, then we might have just enough time to save the planet Earth.
Well, the letter went like this. I hope that everyone will conserve water and save our environment now. Bye for now!
-Teh Kar Yi-
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