Warming Moment
It is sometimes difficult for young people to realize how much influence they can have in the real world when it comes to helping solve community and world problems. The world is a complex place and each of us, adults included, can often feel very
insignificant and often helpless when faced with the problems of our times. Then you read about someone who has the vision and the courage to try to make a difference and you realize there are ways for all of us to help make our planet a better place.
A young man named David Kroodsma started such a mission in November to raise awareness about global warming. He is doing this by riding his bicycle from his home in Palo Alto to Argentina. He wants people in the Americas to think about this as a global issue. One of his goals is to convince young people how interconnected we all are and how climate change affects all of the places he will visit.
He does this by riding into a town at the end of the school day and talking to the teachers and setting up a plan to visit the next day. It works well, he says, because people are interested in his bike and the excitement of his trip and because he has studied the subject at Stanford. He has a master's degree in earth sciences.
The trip will take 14 months. It will be about 14,000 miles long because he is going to the southern tip of Argentina. He has a web site www.rideforclimate.com where you can see pictures of his trip and/or donate money to help defray expenses. He is also raising money for the Union of Concerned Scientists. What an outstanding young man.
insignificant and often helpless when faced with the problems of our times. Then you read about someone who has the vision and the courage to try to make a difference and you realize there are ways for all of us to help make our planet a better place.
A young man named David Kroodsma started such a mission in November to raise awareness about global warming. He is doing this by riding his bicycle from his home in Palo Alto to Argentina. He wants people in the Americas to think about this as a global issue. One of his goals is to convince young people how interconnected we all are and how climate change affects all of the places he will visit.
He does this by riding into a town at the end of the school day and talking to the teachers and setting up a plan to visit the next day. It works well, he says, because people are interested in his bike and the excitement of his trip and because he has studied the subject at Stanford. He has a master's degree in earth sciences.
The trip will take 14 months. It will be about 14,000 miles long because he is going to the southern tip of Argentina. He has a web site www.rideforclimate.com where you can see pictures of his trip and/or donate money to help defray expenses. He is also raising money for the Union of Concerned Scientists. What an outstanding young man.
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