Learning activity 4

Evidence: Would you change if your loved

ones asked you to?

This is Cameron. He lives in the year 2050. He wrote an open letter to the
people who lived on Earth by the year 2000. He is 12 years old and he has
a few things to say about the experiences he has lived so far. Read his
letter. You will find it below.

Dear fellow citizens of the Earth in 2000,

My name is Cameron Cahill. I live in Mexico City. I’m writing this letter
from the future. I know you might be a little surprised to hear that, but a
few friends and I had the idea of writing to our ancestors. I chose to write
to you, the people who lived in Earth by 2000. I hope my words help you
decide if the future is good for you. In case it is not, you can still change
it!

There are great things about the future. We have flying boards to move
around. They are very helpful for getting to school, for example. We can
go very fast and the best thing about them is that they don’t need to be
charged. They use solar energy, so my board charges by itself while I’m
moving around. Actually, none of the devices we use every day has to be
charged using wires. My grandma has told me that when she was young,
she used to have a mobile phone charger with her at all times! I don’t
even have chargers because all my devices get their energy directly from
the sunlight. Dad says this is one of the greatest advances of science. He
says that using the solar technology massively was not easy, but when it
happened, our future changed.

There are some other interesting things about future, for example, we use
very funny swimsuits to go to the beach. I’ve seen some photos of people
from the past wearing nice bikinis and shorts at the beach. Our swimsuits
are horrible! We have to be all covered when we get into the sea. My
biology teacher explained to me that there is an overpopulation of
jellyfish all around the world. She says that the oceans used to be a
balanced ecosystem but now, many marine species have gone extinct.
For that reason, fish like the jellyfish have increased in numbers and it is
not safe to swim without protection because if one of these touches you
can get very sick.

About the future I can also tell you about our food. We eat very healthy
and delicious dishes. For example, we have a soup made out of spirulina.
Spirulina is a super food because it has a lot of protein in it. When I was
little I used to eat spirulina in capsules but now my mom has learned to
make a spirulina soup, which I think is very tasty. I have heard that you
used to eat a lot of beef and hamburgers by 2000. I love hamburgers! I
think they are great but I don’t get to eat them very often because they are
incredibly expensive!

I have told you a few things about the future. What do you think of it? Do
you like it? I enjoy things very much, actually. Just one little thing,
remember that the future is in your hands now. You can leave it the same,
make it worse or make it much better. I hope you have lots of great years
ahead.
Hi Cameron

I see that your future is very interesting, as technology has

advanced radically, a future that to go to school have flying tables
and see how they use solar energy to the maximum for everything.

According to what you read in your letter, what I would do on my

part to improve the future would be:

Recycle; recycling is vital not only helps to need less resources

but also avoids had contaminating the environment with waste left
over. It would help to encourage people to cut down trees, to
pollute water, to take care of animals in danger of extinction, and if
they could, it would make strong laws to punish those people who
do not respect marine life.

I would tell people to put plants in your life; It does not matter if
you live in the countryside or in the city, put plants in your life,
take care of them and create small green spaces. As small as the
plant is and for little that it can do, it will be helping to clean the air
of carbon dioxide