Global Warming is not the number one environmental challenge we face today… (Leonardo DiCaprio)
Well yeah, global warming is really popular issue today. In every media, we can see that global warming has become the scariest problem we face, as if we only think, how to keep the ozone well so that we can stay alive. We think about how to prevent the air pollution in big city, how to keep our forest preserved in our district, and how to save the earth. Many of us just think about how to keep the environment save without giving a real contribution. How many time we discussed about global warming with our beloved friend? How many time we told our parent that our forest, the source of our life has been destroyed? I’m sure the answer is often. In solving a problem, speaking is important but without doing anything, you will never get the solution.
It sounds interesting talking about environment nowadays, especially in our beloved country, Indonesia. We are facing a lot of environment problem now, pollution, the change of climate significantly, illegal logging and forest firing. Here’s a big question in my head why we are just aware now about our environment? Where we are when the problem just began?
Well, I was born in a small town in Bengkulu. Since I was child, my parents always tell me how the environment is important. I have learned to be aware with my environment long time before people talking too much about global warming, long time before the government take a serious affection to solve illegal logging problem and long time before Linkin Park is giving us up with their song, “What I’ve done”. Because I get the fresh water from the soil; I get the fresh air from the area full of green forest and I get my soul in my environment. My house is far from pollution. We keep many plantations alive in our yard. My father told me that it’s better for people to keep the grass alive on the yard than building a field for playing Basket Ball. Every Sunday morning I jog with my father, feeling the fresh morning air sweep in my face. In my childhood, I saw how amazing the seeds growth and how the haze really makes me wonder. I don’t even know that somewhere outside my town, it’s difficult to get only fresh breathe and preserved environment.
If I am asked what have I done to preserve the environment, I’m really shy because my contribution is not as much as the environment has given to me. I’m just a kid. I’m not superhero, I can not look for all of illegal logger and punish them, I can not ask big people out there to stop pollute the environment and I’m sure, I can not fly to the sky and conjure the ozone up.
What can I do as a teenager? First, I always try to throw the rubbish on the right place. This might be simple, but in fact, it’s so difficult to do. We are sometimes too lazy to do that and it’s easy to throw it randomly. Think! What will happen if all of us do the same thing? There will be a lot of rubbish that disturb our environment. Aware our self to throws the rubbish on the right place. This is so easy, but we often lazy
The next thing I have done is recycling. I can do it own. For example, I like to drink milk; I use the trace tin to store something like pen, pencil etc; I also use trace box and newspaper to cover something.
Then, I don’t use everything lavish. I use paper, tissue, water, electricity and other material sufficiently because there are sometimes limited supplies of natural resources. This won’t spend too much time and energy, and of course that won’t suffer you.
Then, I am pedestrian. I tried to go to school or campus on foot, minimally by angkot or bus not only because I don’t have a private car but it’s just about believing if we began to use common transportation, it means that we have decreased the danger of air pollution
Beside that, I and my family don’t use Freon. Our refrigerator is non CFC. We don’t use tin fragrance that danger the ozone. We also keep our house yard green by letting the grass and plants alive to freshener the air. We just make it tidy and good looked. Imagine I used to play basketball on the grasses in my house yard; I was also teached not to use chemical material too much. I must save trace plastic and other times when I need it, I shouldn’t buy it. Just reuse it.
If I am asked what I have done to preserve the environment, actually I will be really shy. My contribution is not as much as the environment has given to me. I’m just a kid. But at least, I have done little contribution to preserve my environment and I do believe, every big thing began with the small thing and I’m sure that global warming is not the only one problem we are facing now. Let us start from the environment around us as the part of this earth.
Well, I really love my environment. Although I’m not wonderwoman, although I can not look for all of illegal logger and punish them, I can not ask big people out there to stop pollute the environment and I can not fly to the sky and conjure the ozone up, I want to give really meaning contribution for the environment. I want people feel what I feel in my hometown. And the most important thing, in solving a problem, I’m sure speaking is important but without doing something, I’m just nothing.
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