Dear future generations, sorry.

That young man is Prince Ea, an American rapper and activist.

Here is some excerpts courtesy of the Daily Kos:  

"Dear Future Generations, I think I speak for the rest of us when I say, 'Sorry.' Sorry that we left you with a mess of a planet. Sorry that we were so caught up in our own doings - to do something." 

"Let me tell you, trees are amazing. We literally breathe the air they are creating They clean up our pollution, our carbon, store and purify our water, give us medicine that cures our disease, food that feeds us…" 

"I'm sorry that we put profits above people, greed above need, the rule of gold above the Golden Rule. I'm sorry we used nature as a credit card with no spending limit…" 

"Hey Fox News, If you don't think climate change is a threat, I dare you to interview the thousands of homeless people in Bangladesh. See while you were in your penthouse nestled, their homes were literally washed away beneath their feet due to the rising sea levels." 

"And Sarah Palin. You said you loved the smell of fossil fuels. Well, I urge you to talk to the kids of Beijing who are forced to wear pollution masks just to go to school." 

"Cut the beat." 

"I'm not sorry. This future, I do not accept it. Because an error does not become a mistake, until you refuse to correct it."

And they say our millennials are lazy and uninvolved.

Go ahead tell that to this young man. 

Kind of telling that he felt the need to call out Fox News and Sarah Palin specifically don't you think?

I have found my final resting place. I'm gonna be a tree.

Courtesy of The Collective Intelligence:  

Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel recently introduced a new burial technique with the potential to change the world. They call it the Capsula Mundi project, and it's a shockingly simple concept. 

Rather than burying dead bodies in wooden boxes in the ground, bodies are placed in a biodegradable sack like the ones below. 

The sack is then buried in the ground, with a tree planted above. 

The premise is that as the tree grows, it will use the nutrients produced by the human body as it decomposes. 

The designers wish for cemeteries to eventually look more like forests.

Man do I like this idea!

I have never been a fan of funerals, but having a ceremony to plant a tree, now THAT sounds like a celebratory event.

My daughter and I recently discussed this idea and she is all for it. She says she would be much more likely to come and water me if I was a tree, rather than sit and grieve for me if all she could see was a headstone.

And the idea of providing oxygen to the earth after my passing makes me pretty happy as well.

This also falls in line with what Neil deGrasse Tyson has said he would like for his remains to be used for after he breaths his last.

December horror.

I know, it shocked you and you probably turned it off after the first ten seconds.

But for those of you who sucked it up and sat through the entire minute thirty five, you are chuckling to yourself at its inventiveness and quite possibly seeing Christmas trees through more sympathetic eyes.

Besides, I bet you're wide awake now aren't you?

Wi-fi trees.

Gotta point.