Andrew Revkin

One of my advantages in covering climate is I've covered other kinds of disasters, too, so it keeps my context, you know.

Me in touch with other things we could do.

So I'm walking around and interviewing everybody.

I went to this school that's being retrofit.

They actually were getting ahead of it there.

The World Bank provided some funding to put in iron bars in the brick building.

And I met these kids.

When you're a journalist with a camera and stuff and a pad, you get swarmed by kids, mostly in developing countries.

And so these kids are running up to me.

And they weren't going like, are you American?

Or just, they were saying Facebook, Facebook.

And I went, that's interesting.

And they led me to their little town, a little community center that had a bank of eight or 10 pretty flimsy computers.

And they were all there playing a farm.

There was a game that was hot at that time on Facebook.

Farmville?

Farmville, yeah.

And my son back in the Hudson Valley, I remember him playing it and

And I thought, wow, that is so freaking cool that these kids... And actually, I became Facebook friends with a couple of them afterwards.

We traded our... And I thought back to my youth when we had pen pals.