What Makes Your Generation Unique

(expect some surprises)

Posting 6: Your Generation

Assuming you are still relatively young,

Your children and grandchildren
    wide-eyed
when you tell them:

you were alive 
before life 
outside Earth
 —a microbe on the Moon?
     a fossil on Mars?—
was discovered
(until recently, scientists insisted
     Moon & Mars have no water
     and thus, no life;
     new technologies
     indicate 
     extensive water—
     and organic components
     necessary for life
      as we know it);

and that you shared Earth
with humans’ closest relatives
—chimpanzees and bonobos—
living in the wild.

Then,
they will 
sit politely
as you 
explain why
your generation
was among those
who did so little,
to prevent or lessen
climate disasters.

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