We are caring stewards of their own and the global environment (I19) It is no excuse to say oh, because everybody else is littering, I will not have a big impact on the world. You have just commited an environmental crime. This world is dirty. Because of the many litterbugs and trash that is thrown out around the world everyday, huge piles of trash form on land and on sea. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch for instance, is constantly growing and is twice the size of Texas. This affects the environment, as fish are ingesting this plastic and getting contaminated. This in turn affects us, as our fish supply is contaminated and becomes uneatable. I also felt the need to make the world a better place, so one day, as I was walking home, I passed by a bag of garbage in the middle of a road. I kept walking, but then I felt the need to pick it up and throw it away. I ran back and picked up the bag, brought it home, and threw it away. This is what is needed to make the world a better place. There are more than 7 billion people in the world, and if each of us pick up one piece of trash, using 5 seconds to pick it up, the earth will be 7 billion pieces of trash cleaner. In Boy Scouts, we learn that a scout is clean. It is one of the points in our scout law. This is a code I live by. There is a saying in the boy scout world, Leave No Trace. Leave no trace is the idea that we must leave a place cleaner than how we found it. It means that we need to make the effort to make the environment as good or even better than it was so that other people can enjoy nature as well. With this in mind, I find it very hard to see how people can just litter without a second thought. Furthermore, I am now taking the AP Environmental Science course, and I am learning alot about keeping the environment clean. We are at a turning point in the world, in which we either save the world or not, depending on how we handle pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. We need to make the right decision. Not only for ourselves, but for our children and grandchildren as well. With this in mind, I will continue to pick up trash when I see it, and I encourage you all to do the same.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Tadashi ShichidaSenior @ Hokkaido International School Archives
June 2020
Categories
All
H-1
U-0 S-2 K-2 I-2 E-2 S-2 |