Tim's letter to Elizabeth Warren for her speech on climate change
Her questions:
What do you think the planet is going to look like 25 years from now if we don’t tackle climate change head-on?
What small thing will be different?
What big thing will change everything?
His answer:
Hello, my name is Tim. I am 8 years old and I am an ambassador for plant-for-the-planet.
The climate crisis is threatening our earth and we humans are responsible. If we continue to act as we have so far, this will result in bad consequences. I think we should make a law that people aren't allowed to use more than 3 gallons of fuel a day. I also think we should leave the fossil fuels in the ground.
If we lie around and eat a lot of TV dinners* the world will be grey and dark when I am 33.
We could have a CO2-balanced future already, but we do not choose to do it. I choose to do it and many other kids do, too!
I wish for many, many more electric cars and many shared local resources everywhere, that can be reached by foot. Every neighborhood should be a like a little village with it's own library, school, super market, garden, tool library, park, playground, restaurant, repair shop, store and preschool. These buildings should all be run by solar power and built green.
Everyone can order meals that get delivered by a conveyor belt in an underground tunnel so that we don't have to drive to the store and use up electricity or fuel. Everyone gets a free bike and everyone shares their bikes. Steep hills have an escalator for bikes.
I think we should have more light rails going everywhere, running on green energy generated by a humongous generator that spins by itself like a pendulum.
I really hope when I am 33, everything will be green. Every house should have to have at least 10 big CO2-eating plants around it. All cities will have big parks. No one litters and many small animals will roam around everywhere.
I would like to see that every adult has to plant at least 25 trees per year starting now because if everyone takes part, the trees will suck up enough CO2 and give us fresh oxygen in return. If everyone follows all the 'green laws' and everyone does all these things that help the world, the world will be better than paradise. And I will be happy when I am 33. I wish adults would listen to us children!
Please do these things NOW so we will not be miserable sitting inside our homes seeing grey skies and smoking chimneys everywhere.
(*Because TV dinners come in plastic containers.)
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Tim lives in West Seattle next to the library, in a green, mixed-income community with 3 community gardens, parks, legacy trees, a pond, lots of porous sidewalks with drainage swales, 3 playgrounds, a neighborhood house with a 256-solar panel array, the largest in Washington and lots of green, open spaces. He enjoys to walk and bike and riding in the family hybrid car and helped build an educational Bee Garden and planted flowers in the pollination garden.
The climate crisis is threatening our earth and we humans are responsible. If we continue to act as we have so far, this will result in bad consequences. I think we should make a law that people aren't allowed to use more than 3 gallons of fuel a day. I also think we should leave the fossil fuels in the ground.
If we lie around and eat a lot of TV dinners* the world will be grey and dark when I am 33.
We could have a CO2-balanced future already, but we do not choose to do it. I choose to do it and many other kids do, too!
I wish for many, many more electric cars and many shared local resources everywhere, that can be reached by foot. Every neighborhood should be a like a little village with it's own library, school, super market, garden, tool library, park, playground, restaurant, repair shop, store and preschool. These buildings should all be run by solar power and built green.
Everyone can order meals that get delivered by a conveyor belt in an underground tunnel so that we don't have to drive to the store and use up electricity or fuel. Everyone gets a free bike and everyone shares their bikes. Steep hills have an escalator for bikes.
I think we should have more light rails going everywhere, running on green energy generated by a humongous generator that spins by itself like a pendulum.
I really hope when I am 33, everything will be green. Every house should have to have at least 10 big CO2-eating plants around it. All cities will have big parks. No one litters and many small animals will roam around everywhere.
I would like to see that every adult has to plant at least 25 trees per year starting now because if everyone takes part, the trees will suck up enough CO2 and give us fresh oxygen in return. If everyone follows all the 'green laws' and everyone does all these things that help the world, the world will be better than paradise. And I will be happy when I am 33. I wish adults would listen to us children!
Please do these things NOW so we will not be miserable sitting inside our homes seeing grey skies and smoking chimneys everywhere.
(*Because TV dinners come in plastic containers.)
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Tim lives in West Seattle next to the library, in a green, mixed-income community with 3 community gardens, parks, legacy trees, a pond, lots of porous sidewalks with drainage swales, 3 playgrounds, a neighborhood house with a 256-solar panel array, the largest in Washington and lots of green, open spaces. He enjoys to walk and bike and riding in the family hybrid car and helped build an educational Bee Garden and planted flowers in the pollination garden.
