Why taking action toward climate change
salaam
my name is yusuf sayr i will be
delivering my
speech quote-unquote in english but
just to reassure you all my ideas are
100 moroccan
uh really glad to be part of this
countdown
because it’s time maybe for us to act
worldwide
in the same way and try to impact and
make
change for the environment right now
um to be totally honest with you uh
when i used to hear about the
environment and its problem
i was kind of feeling a little bit of
uh proud being african because i know
that
the african continent is the least
pollutant continent
there is so it’s kind of like oh nobody
can blame us
for that but then that’s
that sense of uh you know proud uh pride
uh quickly disappears i reassure you
because
we figure out we are on the same ship
and this ship is sinking so no matter
who is to blame we all need to act
together
so um i mean you can’t you can’t
imagine being in the titanic and saying
okay no i didn’t steer it into the
iceberg
it’s not my fault i’m not doing anything
anyway
um i believe in action
no matter how small they are uh because
small actions amount to big change
um i don’t think it’s just like
quantifying what is the impact of a
small action
toward the environment say okay if i um
turn off the sink when i’m brushing my
teeth what is the impact really on the
environment
but actually the impact on the
environment might be really really small
but the impact on the mentality is huge
because by becoming
people cautious about the environment
that we can change
as people on this planet there is
something that we learned about
uh during this this
endemic is that we can easily
all be touched easily all be impacted
it’s not because the environment is
silently drifting
drifting toward a bad bad
way i would say that we shouldn’t
pay attention we are all going to be
accountable for it for us for ourselves
and for the generations to come so this
is why i’m saying like
even the smallest action you take is
important
maybe it’s how it will have an impact on
somebody who lives with you
maybe it’s going to be a teaching for
someone who is growing next to you
and maybe this person is going to grow
up to be
more responsible toward the environment
no matter what the path they’re going to
take in life
maybe they’ll end up at the head of the
big ceo of a big company
and can actually act upon real
change and big change they might end up
politicians
they might create rules and laws in
different countries
to shift us toward the right direction
meanwhile if we want to come to that and
see the next generation
i think we need to act now ourselves
our generation first we need to save
what can be
saved it’s time for unity it’s not time
for
you know debates and fake news and
whatever and what i’m saying small
actions
this actually goes beyond turning off
the light or
you know switching off the sink or
making sure that we
are using biodegradable
things in our life it’s more about that
the way we consume
also because if we consume and we
continue to consume
then they continue to produce what do we
really need that’s the right question we
need to ask ourselves
do i need to eat that much meat every
day every week
or maybe i can slow down on that and if
i slow down on that
and the other do the same and the other
person does the same
maybe we can drag you know the impact of
you know bigfoot companies producing
meat
push them not to produce that much i
think it’s our actions
small and i just say small because
it’s not about taking an action say
having like a
business plan okay i i need to do big
things
start with small things
and it will help it really help we need
to educate ourselves
i myself educate myself every day try to
be a better person
living in this planet because i know we
share it with a lot of people
i’m far from perfect really far
what i’m trying to learn trying to
improve on myself
trying to impact positively people
around me
it’s not time for thinking it’s time for
action
thank you very much i hope you’re safe
and sound
and hope to see you soon maybe
physically and not virtually
take care thank you