This month, Mayor Eric Adams and Chancellor Aviles-Ramos announced that they were expanding their career mentorship program, FutureReadyNYC, to 36 additional high schools and introducing new pathways in the HVAC and decarbonization sectors — two of the most essential pieces of the transition to a renewable energy economy. The FutureReadyNYC program now has internship programs in 135 schools — a great step, although still a fraction of NYC’s 533 public high schools. Beyond that, though, this initiative reveals a failure of leadership to see the bigger picture for the climate future of our youngest generations.
I’m a graduate of John Dewey High School, a public high school on Coney Island. During my sophomore year, I remember learning that Hurricane Sandy had devastated the school four years earlier and it operated on emergency generators for two years afterward. I heard similar stories at my first internship at the New York Aquarium and from my siblings at their middle school, where flooding remains a frequent issue.
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