GOOD luck to environmental vandals in the future – they are going to need it.
They’ll be up against a dedicated band of green crusaders at Thomas Mitchell Primary School.
They’re wise to the hazards that loom bands pose to wildlife and the giant rubbish dump – half the size of Australia – drifting in the Pacific Ocean.
And they quizzed Parks Victoria rangers about the mass of endangered species diminishing due to deforestation, whaling and shark finning.
They’re not afraid of the hard questions.
Ask them what habits they’ve changed at home during their green crusade, and they reel off a list. They don’t just talk the talk.
They’ve started buying products made from sustainable palm oil or without palm oil at all, giving up non-reusable plastic bags and water bottles, and growing herbs and vegies.
At school, they planted bird-attracting native gardens with a bird bath and bird feeders, set up a recycling and composting worm farm station and regularly pick up litter.
One student even put the acid on a visiting Journal News correspondent: “What are you going to do about it when you get home?”
Another curly question was what happens if newspapers something bad about the government.
Not surprisingly several students indicated they wanted to be journalists.
So again, a word of warning to future polluters – look out!
– Cam Lucadou-Wells
