The Ride of Their Lives!
Ember and Azalea’s climate ride from New Hampshire to New York City
Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for Future school strikes and her trans-Atlantic sailing voyage, Azalea, 7, and Ember Morgan, 9, have taken two-weeks off of school to ride bikes from New Hampshire to New York City to raise awareness about climate change.
One night in August, Azalea Morgan, age 7, from Andover, NH, cried herself to sleep after watching a National Geographic documentary on Polar Bears and the loss of Arctic sea ice. The next morning, she and her sister decided to do something. The determined girls and their Mom, Molly Morgan, have been riding, sometimes by flashlight, south for 10 days now.
Calling themselves, Kids Care 4 Polar Bears, the girls left their home with their mom on September 17th and have been riding bikes, busses, and trains to New York City, determined to arrive Friday, September 27th at the completion of US Climate Week as well as the 57th Anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s ground-breaking classic, “Silent Spring”.
The trio mostly traveled along the East Coast Greenway through long, completed stretches of bike-friendly rail-trails, as well as through other incomplete sections of traffic and busy intersections, camping along the way.
The girls’ intention is to make a statement that American kids are waking up to the climate crisis and, like Thunberg, will be out in the streets taking action until world leaders begin to make meaningful, scientifically-supported steps to mitigate the effects of climate change.
