Webb students have learned how to think for themselves by the teachings of Mikko Myllykoski of Finland.
Our students attended the ADK Youth Climate Summit at the Tupper Wild Center.
The dangers of carbon dioxide and the advantages of converting our homes to electric heating and the need for legislation to eliminate smoke production both in our homes and in our power stations is emphasized.
One hundred percent electric utilities though expensive would improve our life style and our planet.
World-wide taxing of smoke stack produced carbon would allow for the United States to fund other poorer nations in their own carbon reduction programs.
Our students were encouraged to return to their homes and schools and churches to spread the word and programs suggested by the work of Mikko Myllykoski.
If this work is successful, current coal burning power stations can be shut down across the United States, four-season temperatures in homes can be monitored and adjusted automatically by utilities, and we can look forward never to see again the rise of a smoke plume in our nation and in our beloved ADK wilderness.
Lacking in this educational presentation was the activity of observation, data collection, financial analysis, and the drawing of documented conclusions.
Hopefully in our science classes in WEBB, these activities continue to be taught.
I fear that our students have been subjected to a “I said it and therefore it is true” approach to learning.
I ask only that the parents and teachers of the young adults in our schools lead them in a discovery program on these topics…
How can you show with data that Old Forge is getting warmer each year?
Are there two sides to this topic?
How should you react when someone in authority makes a statement that goes against your personal experience?
WEBB students are special, smart, doers and contributors to their generation.
Let’s give them the tools to determine the truth, not merely to repeat what has been told to them as truth.
Sincerely, Clay Luce Old Forge
