To the Editor:

This letter is an attempt to echo and augment the suggestion of a recent letter-writer, Martha Cruciani, that the new Warwick high schools should be outfitted with energy that is not sourced from petro-chemicals. Most of us have become aware of the existential harm these fossil fuels are causing our planet. But they have become so finely integrated into our culture that we fail to act (even notice!), in spite of the dire warnings of scientists and leaders from Bill McKibbin to Pope Francis.

The construction of our new campuses offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to actually DO something!  I agree with Ms. Cruciani: let’s do something to bring renewable energy to our schools.  That will be a teachable event for the ages.

Michael McNamara

Greenwood