FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES

Solar and wind energy should be our future
March 25, 2009 (Mountain Home News)

[The following letter to the editor of the Mountain Home News in Elmore County, Idaho, is reproduced verbatim.]

Dear editor:

At Hacker Middle School, we learned about renewable and nonrenewable resources. I think we should rely on solar energy and wind energy rather than geothermal energy and biomass.

I think geothermal and biomass resources are not good resources because they pollute, take up space, they are not renewable resources, and can destroy wildlife. Solar energy doesn't pollute, doesn't destroy wildlife and it doesn't take up lots of space. Solar energy is renewable and it's almost always there, so is wind energy.
In conclusion, I think we should use solar and wind energy rather than fossil fuels, biomass and geothermal energy.

Igor Poulter