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Photos courtesy of Kristy Brophy and Alana Hall<\/em><\/p>\n Some local students want the community to know just how passionate they are about helping to combat climate change.<\/p>\n Students in grades five through eight from Huntsville Public School (HPS), along with members of Huntsville High School’s environmental club and its PALS (Practical Academic and Life Skills) program, marched to Town Hall on Friday, May 3 to share their message: the planet needs our help.<\/p>\n “(Climate change) is becoming a problem and eventually there will be no solutions so we need to act now before it\u2019s too great of a problem,” said grade five student Margot Fleming.<\/p>\n The grade five\/six classes at HPS have been learning about global issues, including climate change and how complex the issue\u2014and the solutions\u2014can be.<\/p>\n Grade five student Coen Turner said he’s concerned about what will happen if pollution and climate change are allowed to continue unchecked. As one example, he said, “Animals could go extinct.”<\/p>\n Despite the complexity of the issue, the students recognize that everyone can play a part, and everyone can speak up about it.<\/p>\n “I just want everybody to know that this is a really important cause and that everybody should be doing their best to help the environment because no person is too small,” said Fleming.<\/p>\n She said that personally she is “trying to use less plastic, trying turn off lights and power cables when I leave a room, and just trying to do as much as I can, because every person counts in this problem.”<\/p>\n Turner added that he does his best to reuse as much as possible so that it doesn’t end up in a landfill where it will contribute to the problem. “It\u2019s really bad and the earth is dying because of us.”<\/p>\n\n\t\t