Children as leaders and torchbearers for climate change awareness
hi
good evening everyone i am samadhrita
and i am here
to talk about climate change and what we
can do
about it well you must be wondering
what can a seven-year-old possibly talk
about so let me tell you a story
when the pandemic began and the world
went into lockdown
yes i can pronounce panamic i can spell
it too
anyways like i was saying when the
pandemic began
and the world went into lockdown i saw
something incredible
i saw stars in the sky at night
maybe not a whole lot of them but i
could see stars
something that i had never seen before
as the sky was always
filled with smoke and pollution perils
of living in a city
i saw clear blue sky in the mornings
and birds chirping on my window
as humans went into lockdown nature had
taken back
what was hers hundreds of children
suffer from breathing disorder
even before they reach my age
and it makes me unsure about our future
i have already seen some major storms
and thousands of lives being destroyed
i have seen worst of the droughts in
some regions of the country
people unable to survive because of
hunger
this is not the one that we want
many think that weather patterns are
changing
but these are not weather patterns it is
the result
of climate change due to human
activities
it is time for us to wake up
as a student and a young earthling i
want to take action
do what i can to make our earth more
sustainable
and so should you
all the maths history science and
other subjects will not help
if we do not have a sustainable planet
to live on
we need to make climate change awareness
a priority in schools and at home
i am an eco warrior and i am plant-based
because it is one of the best ways to
reduce
a carbon footprint i do not eat packaged
foods to avoid unnecessary plastic
packing
and it also keeps me healthy
while children my age celebrate their
birthdays with balloons
and plastic decorations and gifts
i spend my birthdays giving away plants
to everyone i know
and distributing food in orphanages
that is the least i can do so you see
even a kid can make a change if we put a
heart in it
i urge everyone who is listening to this
to take climate change
very very seriously and join hands with
activists working for an awareness and
do their bit
start by buying consciously only what is
needed and not what
we simply want have a plant-based diet
make a compost pen at home remember
the five hours refuse reduce
recycle rot reuse
i would like to call upon all my fellow
friends
to become the torch bearers and show the
right way
if we all make an effort we can change
climate change
thank you