This is the speech I did yesterday in BPK Penabur Bogor. I really liked what I have written though. I really liked the way it's built. I guess it was just not good enough for the competition, and because I suddenly forgot a line at the 4th paragraph. It's stupid to think I could have won when I knew I wouldn't. There was never a second chance for me to have achieved their thoughts, but okay okay I get it, I have failed, and it's my fault. Good job on the competition by the way.
"Greetings your Excellencies sires, madams and distinguished guests. Today, I, Zahra Thania, a sophomore student of Al-Taqwa College am here to make a difference and to speak for this generation and the generation yet to come.
I hereby stand not because I was elected to do this speech, but because I am here to detain environmental issues that have harmed the earth exceedingly well over the past few years. And to start off let me ask you:
"Greetings your Excellencies sires, madams and distinguished guests. Today, I, Zahra Thania, a sophomore student of Al-Taqwa College am here to make a difference and to speak for this generation and the generation yet to come.
I hereby stand not because I was elected to do this speech, but because I am here to detain environmental issues that have harmed the earth exceedingly well over the past few years. And to start off let me ask you:
Why
is the world becoming an uncomfortable place to live in? Have you ever thought of that? Why
is the world becoming such an uncomfortable place?
In my recent research, it has been calculated that the topic
environmental issues are escalating every year. Pollution –the major
environmental problem is now found everywhere. Air pollution as well as noise
pollution is able to be found right outside this building, causing diseases and
deafness without us knowing. This is dangerous sire; we have a serial killer
that we aren’t able to capture.
We were all once so young and so comforted of living in the earth,
but can you picture our grand-grand children happily living in a fully polluted
environment? In a world where climate change is something very usual? A place
where there is no such thing as fresh water? Where cancer is found in every
meat and every fish of their meal? Even nowadays cancer is able to be found in
fishes, climate change is beginning to be usual, and people are infected with
lung cancer caused by air pollution. Can you imagine what our future will face?
What the next generation’s future will be?
Although nobody will ever accuse me of being a science kid, one
thing that I learned from Physics is that energy
cannot be created or destroyed. Scientifically proven, environmental issue is the result of
exploitation of the used energy that cannot be destroyed.
Thus, we cannot end environmental issues, sadly. What has happened
had happened, and what’s happening is happening. The most that we can do is to
slow down, to retard the environmental issues and to do this, I, we, the world, will need
all of you involved.
I am not launching a campaign, I am only launching productivity in
the little things I do. Little things will eventually result into something
big. Like environmental issue; it came from the little mistakes we have done
that we did not take care of. And solving this begins with the little things as
well.
First step: conserve energy. This sire, will literally takes only
thoughtfulness and a simple gesture of the hand: like turning off lights when
not needed and unplugging everything when they aren’t in use. A little spoiler,
electricity and appliances that are still plugged in even if they’re ‘off’ will
still snap energy which defines as negativity for your electricity bills.
The next step is to understand that every matter of the Earth
enjoys where they are supposed to be correctly put in. An example of that is:
throwing rubbish into the rubbish bin, not on the pavement, not on the
sidewalk, but into the rubbish bin. Where they will be well content to be
recycled and reused.
The last step I will be introducing to you is to please become less
reliant on things that pollute the environment. Become less reliant on your
cars. I wouldn’t tell you to stop using your cars, I’m only informing you that
the emissions of the car’s fuel are harming my lungs, and definitely yours and others’ as
well.
Just last year I did a similar speech to this one, and I promise
you, it wasn’t only a combination of words and written solutions to the
environmental issue, it was an implementation that grew inside me. So I hope
that this speech would instil in all of you too, and would make you realize
that we do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.
As there are times to greet, there are times to farewell. And to
finally end this speech, I would like to scorch something inside of you once
more. Ian Somerhalder once said, “What
you do the environment, ultimately you do to yourself.” And if the
environment is like this, then what have we done to ourselves? Thank you very much."
