Thursday 11 November 2021

My Speech

I walked up onto the step stage as all the girls cheered for me.  I started laughing, I can't help it sometimes.  I stood there for a minute, staring at the 59 people in the audience, and the 3 judges. I got the thumbs up signal to start speaking-ish.  I listened to myself as my voice exploded over the room, though I still sounded like I was talking, not speeching.  I watched the effect as I said,

"  
INTRO
‘When we put the whole picture together, recycling is the best thing to do.’  So why don't we? I’m
Charlotte, & I think we need to recycle... more. If WE could recycle, WE could save OUR environment, OUR
ocean, OUR animals, and most of all, OUR planet.  There are many reasons we should recycle and one of them,
the main one, is that  if we keep littering, our world will die.  There are many other reasons we should recycle, but, Sadly,  I can only tell you 3 of them today, as I don't have enough time to tell you ALL the rest.

OUR OCEAN
Our ocean is one of the most endangered things on our planet.  That is because when you litter by/in
streams and rivers, the litter gets washed out into the ocean, and +, the wind blows almost all OUR litter
into the ocean, if not in the opposite direction.

OUR OCEAN 2
For example, people dumpt 2 thirds of the plastic on earth into our ocean, daily. Well, Actually,
I'm pretty sure that's true. Did you know there are 49,000 pieces of plastic per square-mile, in
our ocean?  Soon enough, if we DON´T start recycling, we won't be able to go swimming in our ocean.
If we don't start recycling, we'll be swimming in our plastic, & that could be in just 20 years!
Nobody wants that, It would be REVOLTING!

OUR PLANTS & GARDENS
You might remember me saying, the plastic that doesn't get blown into the ocean goes in
the opposite direction?  Well, that's nearly worse.  Do you know what direction that is?
Correct, sadly. Our plants and gardens.

OUR PLANTS & GARDENS 2 
If our plants get suffocated by plastic bags and bottles, we´ll have no oxygen.  As you probably know,
trees make our oxygen, & hold in our Carbon Dioxide, if all the trees die, we won't have a place to gather
more oxygen. Then, we'll have to breathe in carbon dioxide, but that's IMPOSSIBLE!! 

OUR ANIMAL
Another reason for recycling is our Native Animals, & other animals in the world.  Wouldn't it be
sad if all the animals in our world died out? I would think, & say, so. Unfortunately...

OUR ANIMALS 2
Imagine If all the animals in our world died out, just because of littering, JUST BECAUSE YOU
ARE TO LAZY TO RECYCLE!!!!  That will happen eventually, in less YOU start recycling.  Imagine
how sad it would be without animals in our world, when you know there could be.  No animals =s
no pets, which =s no joy, especially when you Know there could be animals, pets, &  joy.

CONCLUSION
Altogether my point is, If we don't manage to start recycling soon, we may no longer have an earth
to live upon for Ourselves, & the next generations. We NEED to keep our earth alive so that we can
continue living.  Can you believe that ONLY 120 people voted against using plastic bags?! 
That is terrible!  We need at least 120,000 to stop us & others using plastic bags!  When you think
about it, our Ocean, & our plants are on our earth, so if they all die, our animals, & us die Too!!
As Robert Swan once said, 'The greatest threat to our planet is the belief someone else will save it."

I hope you enjoyed my speech, no matter how long it was!!

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