Chip Ward Article Summary

We will leave our children a world that is far worse off than when we received it. In the article written by Chip Ward “We screwed up: A letter of apology to my grandchildren” (2012) He writes a letter to his grandchildren and makes an apology on behalf of our and past generations. He apologizes mostly for the problems of the world they are about to inherit. He paints an extremely depressing outlook for his grandchildren’s future. Their future world looks bleak due to overpopulation, overuse and our never ending obsession with chemicals. We are consuming our resources at a faster rate than can ever be replenished. The number of people on earth is in the billions and how we ever thought we would be able to care for all those people is inconceivable. Maybe we never really thought of how many people were …show more content…
Some countries overuse more than others essential leaving the less fortunate countries in the dust. We over consume food and water as if they are endless resources. Most of us hold no regard for the future and just plow ahead with the mindset that money can buy anything and everything. Chip references resource wars as a result of our overuse and overpopulation. When these resources run out, most likely to be water first. The people left on this planet will fight for their survival. There are programs in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening but when you have a thousand people trying to save water and ten thousand wasting water. Then most likely it is not making much of a difference. We have overrun every piece of land on earth cutting down millions of acres of trees to make room for more people and new stores filled with stuff we don’t truly need the same stuff we will over consume. With new factories to make the products we don’t need comes new waste polluting our skies, ground and inadvertently poisoning our