We the People
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Stories, essays, poems and pictures for the Climate Classroom
Most educational material dealing with the Climate Crisis focuses on scientific information. The text may be academic, laden with dry sentences and jargon, or it may be journalistic, presenting the facts about heat waves and hurricanes in the style of a magazine article. We see pictures of a polar bear on a tiny iceberg, and a wildfire raging through a forest, and the white arms of bleached coral. We may see a picture of an oil well, and we may see a picture of a wind turbine.
What these teaching materials rarely if ever mention are the students themselves, who will live their lives confronting the unprecedented challenges of the 21st Century. The young people know enough about the Climate Crisis to be deeply worried about their future (even if they try to hide that worry, that fear, that dread, that anger, that bleak depression . . . behind the appearance of being light-hearted and cool.)
Fiction about the Climate Crisis appears again and again as another apocalyptic nightmare, a dystopian horror story, an Armageddon filled with terror, hopelessness and despair. These books and films and videos do little to guide overwhelmed teenagers toward the sort of education which they urgently need.
As a high school and university teacher of many years, I firmly believe that we need teaching materials which explore the specific, concrete, and positive ways in which students can rise to the great challenges which they face.
Thus I have written We the People, an anthology of essays, stories, poems and pictures, a unique book which puts the spotlight on the students, as we piece together a deeply positive Big Picture of their world today . . . and of their world in a healthy, prosperous, and peaceful future.
“Seeds long dormant sprouted in our hearts.”
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The Goddess of Clean Energy
The girls, demanding a real future!
Stockholm, Sweden
And the guys, demanding a real future!
Stockholm, Sweden
Book categories: American Revolution and Climate Change and Clean Energy