For those of you who possess an Apple iPhone, you know that it drastically improves your quality of life. Well, that may be the case for the hours after 7:00am and before 11:00pm, because anytime after that, the updates are no fun for light-sleepers. Anyways, one morning, I nervously awoke to a BBC News update about a group of kids in middle school, who penned a rendition to John Lennon’s famous “Imagine”. With support from Lennon’s lover, Yoko Ono, the Scottish group created verses, like “Imagine there’s no litter, a countryside that’s clean; clean rivers flowing, what a lovely scene.” (BBC News) The Whitelees School of Rock consists of primary school children, from ages nine to eleven years old. Needless to say, I laughed so hard, but I also felt inspired. Kids, so young, and who we perceive to have no knowledge about the environment, shine brighter than teenagers and young adults who have the ultimate arsenal to promote change. An act of this magnitude symbolizes the transition that the world is in right now; climate reform is of the utmost concern, and everyone, at any age, race, gender, and creed is able to contribute.
Rock on guys!
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