This email from a first-grader at Brooklyn’s PS 58 came in this weekend:
Dear Colin,
We have to work harder the ice is melting and some people believe that in fifty years a few places are gonna be flooded alot. I want to meet you. I like what you are doing. I want to ask you a question: Can you help us by making posters and hanging them places so people will know more about pollution and global warming? We don’t eat McDonalds food because it is unhealthy and the food is not homemade. It is made from a factory and I don’t like it. I don’t eat Dunkin Donuts unless I didn’t do it on the rest of the week. It just opened in my neighborhood and it is really hard to not eat there because even though the donuts come from a factory they taste good. And I usually don’t eat it because my mom forgets her wallet or I don’t want to. I like to make bird feeders with toilet paper rolls and peanut butter and birdseeds and I like to make bird puppets out of toilet paper rolls too. And we only use recycled toilet paper and paper towels and kleenex. Almost my whole school is trying to stop global warming. It seems like the only things that open are Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins and McDonalds.
Love, Olive