Monday, February 4, 2019

Environmental problems around our globe

In class today we got to have a skype meeting with students from both Israel and India. The students from India were the ones we got to talk to first. They were around 13 years old.

India - Flood and air quality


The Indian students were well dressed in their school uniforms and seemed interested in having a conversation with us. Their main concern about climate change they had was the smog. Its a smokey like substance that comes in form of air pollution.

It neither is good for peoples health nor the environment and comes from factories and cars that are in the city. The student's school was located close by the capital of India, New Dehli, just about half an hour away according to the students. The reason they experienced air pollution sometimes was the polluted air flowing with the wind from New Dehli into their region.

They were also concerned about the floods that recently happened more rapidly than before. They told us that it had flooded a holy temple and killed 2 700 people.
Bilderesultat for Indian temple flooded
The things they did to prevent climate change was to use recycled paper at school and recycle pens. The students were also currently working on a project about climate change. 

Israel - Drought

The students in Israel were a little younger of age (about 12 years old), and was not so concerned about climate change. Anyway, it was fun to see them having a good time talking to us about Fortnite and dancing in class. They seemed to have a good life even in the middle east, which makes me happy.

But we still have to fix the problems with the lack of water in their country, which was also their main concern. They were also freely dressed up, and seemed to like their teacher.

South Australia - Extreme temperatures

Later on, we got several replies from students in the SA region (South Australia). They were around the age of 11, and were aware of the climate change. They had already themselves noticed changes in the climate, and wanted to do something about it.
Bilderesultat for koala australia thirsty
Image is from HERE

There had for a long time been koala bears in their country up north, and now there were hordes of koala bears seeking a better place to live further south in Australia. Koala bears were literally coming to places they had not been before. People believe the reason why the bears decided to move was due to the lack of water in their country lately.


There had been extreme droughts in Australia this winter and extreme temperatures this winter there. It was so bad that the temperatures reached a bloody 50 degrees celsius, which is an unbearable amount of heat even for the animals used to the climate of Australia. That means climate change is real, and it is happening now.

In the extreme temperatures, the koalas are thirstier than ever. People are providing water for them, but there are many animals that are suffering from climate change, which is our destiny to prevent.

Bali - The island of plastic or paradise?

For many years, Bali has been known as heaven and referred to as paradise. Unfortunately, you can't really say the same anymore. Bali has become the island of plastic, and it has just been getting worse. Cases like beautiful beaches full of tourists from all around the world that has been transformed into a plastic dumpsite are not rare anymore.

Rubbish on beach
Picture from THIS page. A beach in Bali where volunteers desperately trying to fight the endless fight against plastic.
Luckily, some girls from a school in Bali decided to start a campaign to prevent plastic from approaching their shores, or at least decreasing the amounts first. After several months of planning how they will do it they started really seeing how bad the situation is. They had to start on something easier first, and focus all their force on that specific problem. After brainstorming together they decided to start a campaign they called BYE BYE PLASTIC BAGS. (The link may currently not be working, and I am aware of the problem). 
Bilderesultat for bye bye plastic bags
This campaign has inspired many people with opening their minds on the plastic problem, not only in Bali but in the whole world! To make their campaign more recognized they (after several hours of trying to) got permission to enter the Bali airport where thousands of tourist and other people go through in order to promote their campaign. They got over 1000 signatures from other people in just one and a half hour, which is awesome. 

This proves that even kids (they were only around 14 years old), can make a huge difference in the world by changing peoples mindsets. By making people aware of a problem, and make them know that there is a solution to every problem, anyone can change peoples mindsets. Kids are not just living under grown-ups decisions and actions, they have a voice of influence too. Anyone can do anything, if they go strongly enough in for it.

In the aftermath, a huge and still increasing amount of people is starting to volunteer by marketing and promoting the campaign, and cleaning Bali from the plastic. HERE is a page that proves it. Bali is on its way to become a pardise once again.


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