Untitled Arthur Anderson

You look up or look down, You’ll find it, You’ll find the old candy wrappers and old car parts, And everything else in between. You’ll find it spewing out of cars, And huge metal hunks of metal called factories, Heating up the planet like a huge sauna for the worse, Making waves the size of skyscrapers. Month-long storms Misplacing more people than some wars, On our not so pristine coasts That are covered in car parts not to mention the plastic, Tough as nails that will sit on the earth like rocks and minerals And get stuck in animal’s throats like they are choking them to death.

These problems are fixable. The problem isn’t finding ways to fix the problem, The problem is finding ways to change. We all know many solutions to change. It’s just that change is very hard. Imagine when the school year started and we were all distanced. Was it easy starting to do all this scheduled curriculum? No, it was very hard! But over time it got easier and easier and easier. It’s like climate change, once we initially change it’s hard But once we do it and do it again, it gets more and more easy. Not to say that we’re not changing, I just don’t think we’re changing fast enough. We’ll end up in the right if we keep going at this rate,

Think of some things that we could fix climate change with Stuff like windmills as tall as mountains And solar panel fields like cities And electric cars. There’s one problem with all these things, They’re more expensive than diamonds. You know what isn’t expensive? Recycling everything, From bags to food Eating all your food These are all things that are dirt cheap And they’ll help Not a bunch, but just enough If we all do them we’re taking steps in the right direction That’s not to say that you shouldn’t put up solar panels Or windmills Or have electric cars if you have the means, Stuff like that is very good for the environment, And if you have the means, you should definitely be doing them. We can all do our part. It’s not that hard. We can all do our part to save the planet in this trying time. So I ask you… Please do something.

Arthur Anderson, Grade 6 Murray Middle School, Saint Paul Teaching Artist, Frank Sentwali