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hi my name is tom lavanga and i teach

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earth and space science and physics at

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perkielman valley high school in

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collegeville pennsylvania

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my question is with your unique

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perspective on the world from orbit

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what advice can you give to the next

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generation of scientific thinkers as

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they enter adulthood

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i think the advice i will give to the

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next generation is first of all to think

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about

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taking up a field of study in science or

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engineering and second of all i would

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also encourage them to

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go into a high-tech arena because that's

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the direction that we're heading

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thirdly i think i wouldn't want them to

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forget about

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studying the environment of our planet

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and finding out new ways of how to

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protect our environment and how to

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protect our natural resources because i

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think

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from the perspective that we have up

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here

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when you see sunsets and sunrises you

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can see how thin our atmosphere is and

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that tells me that we have a very

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delicate balance uh in uh in in our in

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in our in our planet that uh that keeps

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us alive and any uh any upset in that

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balance uh can can have some very uh

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harsh consequences on the quality of our

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life so that's what i would encourage

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our our future generations is to study