The sustainability fair is required for a majority of Roosevelt students who take biology. Every April the gym gets filled of poster boards, hands on activities, experiments and art pieces. Each student or pair of students must make something or research something that is sustainable and could make our lives more sustainable. Whether it is something anyone could do, such as learning about veganism or brands that are based off of being sustainable. To even the destructive impact that large factories and companies have on the environment and how to deal with not supporting them. And as the school year comes to a close and every student–especially the seniors–is waiting for the summer to begin, exhilarated for what the next school year might bring and what might come around the corner to meet them next. However, what looms over our generation is the fact that science has finally announced that we might not really have that much time left on this earth and be able to live the same way that humanity has been living and breathing for the past 50 years or so. And that fact is something that should not be encouraging our generation to give up and stop making changes to the earth, it is something that should keep us going even stronger than ever before. The act of learning about ways to become more sustainable, even though in this since it is for a grade, is something that is very important to wrap your head around as being part of this generation, more than ever before. And it’s something that should be focused on even more with the contiuning climate crisis our generation is faced with.
