Read in full the submission of our Creative Writing Competition participant, Archibald Clark.
Grounded in observations of his changing community, 9-year-old Archibald Clark reflects on local environmental loss while offering creative solutions and big ideas, such as solar panels orbiting the sun in a vision reminiscent of sci-fi Dyson spheres. Who knows, maybe one day, with Archie’s imagination and big thinking, ideas like this could become a reality!
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by Archibald Clark
The other is that I feel like I have the ultimate solution to alternative energy, but I don't know if people will listen. It is to put solar panels next to the sun. Made of titanium, so they won’t get melted. Attach them to the ring around the sun, the solar panels will pump alternative energy for everyone living on Earth.
I would like to talk about climate change and how my community has changed. Now, first thing is my community around me has flooded a lot. And all the people have knocked down trees and stuff. That means all the water’s not getting sucked up by the roots of the trees. So that’s one thing.
The other is that I feel like I have the ultimate solution to alternative energy, but I don’t know if people will listen. It is to put solar panels next to the sun. Made of titanium, so they won’t get melted. Attach them to the ring around the sun, the solar panels will pump alternative energy for everyone living on Earth. I think we should make it out of titanium because it will resist the heat and it would help a lot with less heat and polar bears in Antarctica. But also a lot of people in UK, from that big storm Eowyn, as it was scary. All the trees were getting blown over and my trampoline nearly hit the house. What I would like for things on the ground is all the cars to be hydrogen based. It would help the environment and all the animals.
What, I have loved about nature since I was very little. I loved looking at all the trees and birds and going for picnics in the woods with my mum, but then these builders came and they knocked down all the trees. I was very sad so was my mum, but we are OK now, because we still have a part of it. When I walked through the words next to my house after the Eowyn storm, I saw all the big trees that got knocked over and I felt very very scared, and I am grateful that that storm did not blow on the trees on our house.
I would like for everyone in my neighbourhood not to smoke and help each help each other. Smoking pollutes the air with horrible gas and I think it makes climate change worse.
