ToAllTeenAgers

Save The Planet

by V. Martin

This is a lot to ask but if I have my way you will get some thing back. If all you kids would agree not to drive until you're 18 you're parents will be responsible for you until you are 21. We should be extending childhood since we are living so much longer. We need kids concentrating on their studies and staying in school. School should be extended too, 9th-14th should be high school grades. Pre-school should start right afther birth with virtual instructors and Zoom visits. Kids should start grade school as soon as they are out of diapers, walking, and talking they should be going to school.  This age may differ slightly for everyone, it will be up to the teachers to bring them all to the same level. Childhood is the best time of our lives, or so it should be, shouldn't we add some of the years extending our life to the front of it? If the young adults of the world would take it apon themselves to lead the way in saving their planet the  adults may step up to do the same. Maybe not quit driving but recycling, planting some trees, volunteering, and just being more aware of our individual impact on the world. Not driving until you are 18 may not be the last thing society asks of you in the hopes of controlling global warming because your impact is just beginning. The habits you form now will have a lasting effect on the quality of life you lead in the future. So many things influence our health because it all leads back into itself and if we would stop jamming up the process things would correct themselves. We have to do the immpossible, step back and do nothing just like we have been doing only some of us have to go back to work. We can't keep doing what we've been doing or we are all going to die along with all other life on the planet.

As a human being, a conscientious life form with the ability to communicate through language our ideas, experiences, and feelings we are responsible for the rest of Mother's life forms that have no such abilities. She didn't create all the different animals just so we could kill them. We have eyes to observe the rest of the wonders around us so we can appreciate them, not destroy them. We have lungs to breathe fresh air not choke on the exhaust from trucks and cars zooming by. We have ears to listen to birds, the wind, bugs, and predators that might do us harm. We have a nose to smell the flowers and animals marking their territory. 

If we allow her to do her thing she takes care of her own and guess what we are her own. It may be hard at first but it will get easier as we witness her correcting the mess we have made. 

Oh boy, I'm starting to ramble so that's it for now. Thank you for reading and considering what I've written here.