By Frank Andorka, Senior Correspondent
What Happened: David Hogg, one of the public faces of the Parkland High School student activists, tweeted out an intriguing idea
- Instead of investing money in arming teachers, use the money to fund more STEM education.
- Specifically, Hogg said such an investment would allow his generation “to create jobs in renewable, clean and independent American energy like wind and solar.”
SolarWakeup’s View: Look, this tweet shouldn’t be controversial. China has invested in solar for years, including investing $329 billion in clean energy in 2016. The United States, on the other hand, has been Scrooge-like with its investments in the same.
Hogg’s tweet, however, indicates that maybe, just maybe, the next generation gets it. It’s time the United States stopped ceding its clean-energy leadership to others, and the only way to do that is to follow Hogg’s suggestion and invest more in STEM education.
This should be a no-brainer, but with the current administration, I think this is unlikely. But I take my hat off Hogg for at least opening the conversation – and it gives me hope for the future. With a platform that includes more than 400,000 followers on Twitter, David is showing where his generation is looking for job opportunities in the future.