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Thursday, June 04, 2009

7:05 PM

I'm in Current Affair & Debating Club!!! :D

Had a speech yesterday. Only TEN people turned up. Haha. This is my speech:

"We should cherish our environment and not take it for granted.

I'm going to talk about why we should always give care and more care to the environment.
And for now, let me just use teenagers and young adults as my example.
People nowadays have the knowledge and they know how pollutions, natural disasters, climate change, global warming, etc will affect our environment.
They know it through secondary school Geography.
But the problem is that they know it but they don't put what they know in action.
Some people think that what is happening to the environment has got nothing to do with them. Some may feel that it's up to the government and environmental agencies to solve the problems.
But people have to realize that the environment is OURS, it belongs to us and not just the government or presidents.

It's our environment and it's our Earth, so we should all learn to take up a role to help in combating the effects on our environment. But before we know how to handle the environmental issues, we should know what exactly is an environment.

I went to check various dictionaries from www.dictionary.com and I typed in the word “environment”.
Let me read to you one of the definition. It says that:

“Ecology, the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time”.

Humans are organisms. You see, the way the surrounding is like affects us humans. It doesn't just affect plants and animals but it also affect the human race on Earth. Do you see the link? What affects the environment will affect us too.

I'm going to zoom into the area of air pollution.

You see, people waste electricity because they think that they are not the one whose paying for the utilities bill. Yes, as teenagers or even young adults, we are not the one whose paying the bill as our parents will pay them for us. But the ultimate one is that the environment is paying. The environment is paying for all the pollutions that we have caused.

You see, to produce electricity, you need to burn fossil fuels. When burning fossil fuels, harmful gases are being emitted to the air. The more electricity you use, the more fossil fuels they need to burn and of course, that will then lead to more harmful gases in the environment.
What I'm trying to say is that, people are harming the environment because of their actions.

Some people also don't see the effects of it yet. Yes, you don't actually see it as yet but it may affect the generation to come. Few years down the road, people will be affected by the adverse effects of the environment on humans. Health problems will start to arise. Hence, we should learn to save electricity and show care and concern to our environment.

Therefore, I conclude that we should as an individual take some responsibility to care about our environment and what's happening to it as it is our environment and our responsibility. Our actions will affect the environment and in turn, affect the organisms living in it. "