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Climate emergency - yes on 31: 10th Grader Jack Hankey

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the way we live right now is destroying our planet hurricanes are two three times more powerful than they ever used to be the world's eyes a million years old is melting and now as predicted sea levels are rising in our lifetime oceans will flood all over the Earth where billions of people now live thousands of species are going extinct now the coral reefs are coming into deserts the land around the equator is becoming completely uninhabitable and it's going to get much worse because the polar ice caps reflect huge amounts of sunlight the one is ice melts and is replaced by seawater the sea water absorbs the sun's heat instead of reflecting it making the Earth even warmer which makes even more ice melts which makes the Earth even warmer and you get it it's called a feedback loop and melting ice is not the only feedback loop 400,000 of years The Frozen Ground at the north end of the Earth has been sucking carbon out of the air and then freezing it storing it and now that frozen ground is melting and it's releasing the billions of tons of carbon that have been stored in this frozen ground over the past hundred thousand years newly released carbon warm the Earth even more so more frozen ground Mouse releasing more carbon which warms the Earth more so we all sailing but we have not yet to say there is still time pics this is sub sauce we live in a strange world what is the world that my generation has been handed it's the only World we've got Shuffle. Preventing global warming is the single most important task in human history this is our fights to win or lose it's up to us you and me to act now no but it might be good to understand that this is a fight this is after was not an accident scientists have been hollering about this problem since the 1950s even now and maybe unwittingly changing the world's climate through the waste products of this civilization VI release through factories and Automobiles every year of more than 6 million tons of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere seems to be getting warmer this is bad well it's been calculated a few degrees rise in the Earth's temperature would melt the polar ice caps right now we have everything we need to stop burning carbon today they've done it in her country Sweden 100% no burning of carbon it's not even expensive the cost of solar panels has dropped 90% low priced hybrid plug cars allow anyone with access to electrical outlet to stop burning carbon today but the oil companies are fighting to keep people burning carbon to keep making money they're the ones who created the situation where everyone is helplessly addicted to their poison most people couldn't get through one day without their deadly dose of gasoline so we have to start by breaking that dependency that addiction but how well here's the plan stop allowing the car companies to cars that don't plug in duh duh this is a tiny step but it's a real step it's not the end of the fight but it's a good start it take this ballot initiative and make your parents sign it and send it in but you're forcing people you have to educate them not force them well yes but no it's complicated you remember that kids book green Energy's and ham with the guy who didn't even want to try putting green he and his ham I mean in his car he thought he didn't want to but then he tried it and he discovered that he didn't love buying gasoline after all I do so like not buying gas stupid gas station smells like I do still love my plug-in ham thank you thank you Sam I am

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