GROW UP AND BECOME A POLITICIAN

If you don’t like the way politicians make the laws that affect our planet, then become one of the people who make those laws. Good, caring people will be needed to be our future leaders.

GROW UP AND BECOME A SCIENTIST

People are also needed to come up with solutions to our environmental problems. We’re going to need heroes.

CHANGE YOUR OWN ATTITUDE

When we turn on the TV, we’re bombarded by commercials that give the impression our lives will be better if we run out and buy new toys, cars, shampoos, DVDs, pimple creams, and all kinds of other stuff.

Wrong.

What will truly make our lives better would be clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and people around the world who aren’t homeless, starving, and dying. In fact, scientists have found that after our basic needs (food, shelter, water, clothing) are met, buying things does not make us much happier.

SPREAD THE WORD

After you finish reading this, tell three of your friends about it. If YOU tell three friends and THEY tell three friends and THEY tell three friends, 27 kids will get the message. And if they tell three friends and they tell three friends and they tell three friends, 2,187 kids will get the message.

If that were to happen just six more times, over a million and a half kids will get the message. It’s crucially important that every kid get this information.

You can help spread it even faster if you get on the Internet and chat it up by email and instant message. Take these words and email them to your friends. Go ahead. You don’t need my permission.

GET YOUR SCHOOL INVOLVED

Tell your teacher how important this is. Form a club of kids who care about the environment. Start a petition. Make your voice heard.

Change is hard. When the automobile was invented, people who manufactured buggies and horse collars didn’t want to change. When the computer was invented, the typewriter companies didn’t want to change. But they had to.

Human beings are going to HAVE to change, whether we want to or not. It’s just a question of whether we change NOW, when we still have time, or if we change LATER, when it may be too late.

Did you see the movie Titanic? The ship slammed into the iceberg because the lookouts didn’t see it until they were almost upon it. If they had seen the iceberg in the distance, the captain could have steered the ship around it. Earth is on a collision course with environmental disaster right now, and we are running out of time to steer around it. Each day that we delay will make it more difficult.

For years, scientists have been warning that we are like the passengers of the Titanic. But little was done. When Hurricane Katrina just about wiped out New Orleans in 2005, people started to pay attention. But even THAT has not motivated our political leaders to do what needs to be done--begin a crash program to switch to alternative sources of energy. What’s it going to take?

It’s going to take you and your generation.

All your life grownups have been telling you that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to. Here’s your chance to prove it.

GET STARTED!

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