“buT tHat’S noT fAiR!”Alice blurts out into the silence of the classroom. “What gives these guys the right to destroy the planet? How can we stop them?”
Zedmore silently agrees, thinking about the polar bear they just drew, who won’t have a home in the next couple of years. They wish they could do something to help, but how could they convince these businessmen to care about the future of the planet? Mr. Wright’s eyes twinkle, and he says: “Well, Alice, you kids have a lot more power than you realize! By raising your voices and standing up for what you believe in, like you did just now, you can get these people to listen to you!” “And that’s why...” Mr. Wright says, an excited grin playing on his face, “We are going to City Hall tomorrow for a
cLimATe cHAnGe pRotESt!”
alICe AnD zeDmORe stay up waaaaaaay past their bedtime to come up with ideas to give the adults at City Hall.
Ice shelves are melting? No problem! Have some helicopters drop around the Arctic so polar bears can live on them!
huGE blocks of ice
anD
Too much garbarge fracking destroying ecosystems? Not anymore! With these new cars that burn garbage for fuel, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch will be cleaned up in no time! And what if instead of boring black roads crisscrossing around the country, there were roads made of We would have all the electricity we would ever need!
soLAr PanELs?
On and on the two kids go, bouncing ideas off of each other and laughing, thrilled by the inventions they could invent, the better world they could create!