I am here to tell you about my opinions on climate change, global warming, logging and things like that.
Forty football fields of trees are destroyed every minute around the world. The animal extinction rate has increased a lot in the past 100 years. And what is it all for? Money.
In this society, destroying ecosystems makes you money. There are all these big, greedy corporations that don’t care about workers, about the environment. All they care about is money.
Now, I’m just a young lad, too young to really do much. But now I’m writing an article for the newspaper, so that’s pretty good.
I hate it that the ancient Mayans considered how they left the land for the next seven generations ahead of them, but we don’t even think about tomorrow. But we can!
Sure, humans have learned to accelerate the particle, to explore the vast reaches of the solar system. But we also created both global warming and climate change.
I’m not saying the world is facing its imminent doom. We can fix this if we really try. That’s why I’m writing this article. I’m trying, and hopefully my dear readers will try, too.
To help with all this pollution and destruction, feel free to write your own articles, join the local climate action club, and donate to charity. You can also tell your kids to join Junior Forest Wardens.
Working together, we can make a difference.
Rowan Durin is an 11-year-old Powell River resident who is about to start grade six.
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