Dear François Hollande.     

I would like to talk to you about climate change, because I, as a teenager care, we all care, but what do we care about? We care about our future, the future of our future kids. We have dreams and we want to live them, in this world! You can understand right? You also have kids; don’t you want them to live the best way possible? Think about your friends, your family, think about everyone you love, because it’s now or never. 

But maybe you just can’t… maybe you don’t have the guts to walk up on that stage and say: “Let’s save the planet.” I know it isn’t that easy, but you should at least try, we all try. But maybe you’re scared, it’s okay most people are scared of the unknown but let’s know, let’s fight our fears, because if we all do something, we will know that we are going to be all right. We can save the planet, we can make it okay, if we all work together. 

  

Do you like your life? You can make the next generation like it too. You can make them know what this planet is all about, what is beautiful on earth. Because it’s a wonderful place, I certainly know, because I’m living on it. Will we die of old age, or because it’s too cold, or too hot, or even because we are caught in a tsunami. Will our children know why their children can’t live in this world? Because it’s too late? What are people going to tell them? That’s it’s our fault? Because it’s all going to be our fault, if we don’t act now. 

  

Our grand-parents and even older people made this planet a place where you can live; do you want it too go away? Do you want to destroy what they gave us? We accomplished so many things here, and some of us still do. You want that to go away too? Do you want to see your best friend, or boyfriend, or even neighbor die because of what we did, maybe they didn’t help either, but it doesn’t change the fact that we have to help, it doesn’t change anything, we still love them no matter what, and maybe that neighbor and boyfriend, best friend could help us too… 

  

We really care, about this meeting we want to stop climate change, we have one last change, one last shot, to stop the storms, the hurricanes, the cold.. Even the heat, everything is going to go back to the way it was before, so please do something about it, make them realize in your speech that we might lose our planet, and do you know what that means? We won’t live anywhere, we won’t bake cakes, or laugh with friends, or even go to work, because we won’t be there. We will be gone, dead, none of our souls or heart will stay in the sky.. No even the aliens will think somebody ever lived there, because it will to too hot and too cold. 

  

I remember you used to say: “The time for change is now/ Le changemenent c’est maintenant.” well go on, make a change, because it’s now or never, and you could make a difference, if you try to make a change, lots of people will do too, and then we are going to be able to save the world. People think doing as if the climate wasn’t changing, or not talking about it, will make it go away.. But it won’t. 


We must act now, thanks to you, maybe we will. 

  Louise