I was recently reading the March - April 2025 issue of “The Science & Children”, a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.  In this issue, I read the section, “The Poetry of Science” written by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater  She wrote an article entitled, “‘If We Stopped.”

When we imagine acting as Earth’s stewards, we often focus on what we can DO, but in this poem, the author challenges us to consider what we might STOP doing.