I don't like global warming, because it kills animals, and I like animals.
"I don't like global warming," says Alyssa, her eyes huge and serious behind her glasses, a stardust of freckles across her nose, "because it kills animals, and I like animals."
She dreams of solar-powered cars and has put a recycling basket for mail, office and school paper in the corner of her family's dining room. She made another recycling box for her third-grade English teacher's classroom at Key Elementary School and has persuaded her mother to start composting. At Key, she also organized an effort among her classmates to pick up playground trash at recess.
Marvel at any of her efforts, though, and she looks confused: Everyone should be doing all this -- and more -- to save the environment.
"I worry about it," says this girl who has yet to lose all her baby teeth, "because I don't want to die."
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I believe this news article satirizes itself, so I just posted it just as is. Reader comments: "an awful lot of corn and sugar." "a noble cause bastardized to the point where i want to puke." 1
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