Climate Change in the Eyes of a Child

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My nephew, Nakki (shown in the picture with his mom), and his classmates in an elementary school in Tayabas were required by their teacher to deliver a 16-sentence speech about any of these topics: pollution and global warming. Here is the piece of Nakki:

To my dear teacher; To my friends; To all boys and girls;
Good morning!

I am now afraid of typhoons. I am now afraid of floods. I am now afraid of landslides. The storms Ondoy and Pepeng taught me this fear. I used to bathe under the rains. I used to make paper boats. I dreamed of a house on a mountain top. But now, I am afraid.

The news over the television terrified me all the more. Many have died. Little children like us are suffering. They are hungry. They lost their homes. They have not gone to school anymore. And many are sick and dying.

I am afraid because this is not the future I want. This is not the world I love to be. Our President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said that we are victims of the global event called Climate Change. Harmful gases have populated our skies because people do not care. These gases trap the heat in our planet and make the temperature rise. The world is warming fast. The weather is changing much. Too much heat, too much rains, this is Climate Change!

My future and yours is the one at stake. We have entrusted this world to the generations before us, but look at what they did?

Come, join me and let us take the lead. Let us rebuild this world in our own little way. Let us plant trees where there is space. Let us not throw our garbage anywhere. Let us generate zero wastes by segregating and recycling. Let our small voices be heard against illegal logging, dynamite fishing and large-scale mining.

Let us save our world and make it a better place: no floods, no landslides, no diseases. This is what I want my future to be. I hope we share the same view. Again, good morning and thank you very much!

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