Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/06/2008 9:24:28 AM PDT by PROCON
Each day during the school year, a long line of cars sits idling outside Lake Oswego schools, potentially damaging the environment of the very children they're picking up.
Three Lake Oswego teenagers decided the idling has to stop. It's an easy fix: shut off the car. The hard part is getting people to act.
Jacob Shimkus, Emily Carlson and Sierra Sweigert call themselves the Green Teens, and their plan is to place "No Idle Zone" signs at every school.
"The generation above us is leaving all of this to us, and it's up to us to decide what we're going to do about it," Shimkus said.
Recycling isn't enough anymore, they said.
"We're reaching a point in the environment where we may be causing damage we can't repair," Carlson said.
The teens represent both Lake Oswego high schools: Shimkus is a sophomore and Carlson is a junior at Lakeridge, and Sweigert is a sophomore at Lake Oswego.
But saving the world isn't easy. First, they need school district approval and a thumbs up from principals at all of the schools. It's unlikely to be a controversial decision, but it does take time.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Ping!
on a publik skool brainwashing index,
they would score high!
I say take away their XBOX, mobile phones and IPODS....These are dangerous to the environment.
From the mouths of the under aged, brainwashed, childre.....
They should ride the school bus if they want to eliminate their mom’s Escalade idling in front of the school.
“Each day during the school year, a long line of cars sits idling outside Lake Oswego schools, potentially damaging the environment of the very children they’re picking up.”
You just can’t make this stuff up.....No matter what we do, it’s wrong.
Don’t these people have jobs? Lives???
A proud member of the enviro-weenie movement's own Grun Jugend.
Why? What are they doing that is bad?
Actually, if one is going to sit there for a while, it makes economic sense to shut the engine off. At $4.00+ per gallon, why idle away your money?
Okay you little punks, ride home on your bike!
i did not say what you sed i sed.
Sorry, brainwashing to me has a negative context.
Because the engine turns the A/C compressor?
Three future Dem convention delegates in the making. Phase II of their “activism” will be to slash the tires of the cars that still idle.
I make sure that I teach my kids that when I was young, global cooling and acid rain were the main threats to mankind. Now it's global warming even though all of the planets in the solar system are warming, even those with no human activity.
I explain that scientists quoting statistics of percentage increases of human emissions mean nothing when one volcano can emit more greenhouse gases than humanity ever could.
I also explain that water vapor is the most potent 'greenhouse gas' there is and with a planet that is 75% water, you would be toast already if there weren't a self-moderating feedback look that will be discovered and added to 'climate-change' models at some later date.
In short, I teach them to relax. The 'scientists are always looking for the next catastrophe based on arguments from ignorance. Chicken Little, at least, had no career conflicts of interest for his catastrophic alarmism.
Sierra.
Heh heh heh
you sound like a good dad!
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