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Dear Future Generations: Sorry
For the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, celebrity activist Prince Ea launched a video entitled "Dear Future Generations: Sorry" to motivate individuals to take immediate action to stop climate change by Standing for Trees.
Prince Ea was inspired to produce the video by the Stand for Trees campaign, an innovative new way for individuals to take real and effective action to protect threatened forests and help mitigate global climate change, all with the press of a button on their smart phones.
"We owe children a better future than the one we're giving them now," said Prince Ea, who visited two Stand for Trees project sites developed by Wildlife Works in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo. "This isn't just about saving trees, it's about doing what's right for billions of people around the world affected by climate change, as well as taking back the future of generations who will be affected by the actions we take today."
That action cannot come soon enough. A forest the size of New York City vanishes every 48 hours. As such, protecting forests represents one of the best and most effective ways to reduce emissions and slow the most catastrophic effects of climate change. Cutting down one tree in the Congo is estimated to release 18 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, that represents more than three times the annual emissions of an average car.
"It is time for us to stop waiting on others to address climate change and to take action ourselves," said Karin Burns, Executive Director of Code REDD, the environmental NGO behind Stand for Trees. "If we protect threatened forests by making them more valuable alive than dead, we have a chance to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change on our planet."
To learn more about Prince EA and Stand for Trees, please visit:
http://www.facebook.com/princeeahiphop
https://standfortrees.org/en/
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