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1. 0:00Last 200 years, human human activities
2. 0:02like energy, industry, transport,
3. 0:05building, agriculture, and land use are
4. 0:08among the main sectors causing
5. 0:09greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases
6. 0:12released by these activities are warming
7. 0:14the world faster than ever before.
8. 0:19Climate scientists have shown that
9. 0:21humans are responsible for virtually all
10. 0:23global heating in the last 200 years.
11. 0:27Climate change is an is an issue that we
12. 0:30all heard but have have not looked twice
13. 0:33at it.
14. 0:37Did you know that according to United
15. 0:38Nations the average temperature on Earth
16. 0:41surface has increased by 1.44°
17. 0:45C since like since the late 1800s.
18. 0:49For example, last time Earth experienced
19. 0:51NSH, the average temperature was 6°
20. 0:54before under what we experience
21. 0:57nowadays.
22. 0:59We're we're towards the end of the year
23. 1:01in October. And I remember two years ago
24. 1:05around this time, I was starting to
25. 1:07bring out my sweater because it was
26. 1:08starting to get cold for us
27. 1:10Floridaidians. But this year, I haven't
28. 1:12seen a single day that I needed to bring
29. 1:15my sweater out.
30. 1:18According to EPA,
31. 1:20United States Environmental Protection
32. 1:22Agency, we should do this to uh lower
33. 1:25our carbon footprint.
34. 1:28For for example, what we can do is we
35. 1:32can we can carpool with somebody if
36. 1:35you're going to same places as them and
37. 1:38or you can use the five Rs which stands
38. 1:41for refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, and
39. 1:45recycle. Refuse stands for or means that
40. 1:51when trying to when something that you
41. 1:53don't need and you want to buy, refuse
42. 1:56it because it it's going to have a
43. 1:58footprint of its own.
44. 2:00Reduce. Try to reduce the amount of
45. 2:03things that you buy that are not needed.
46. 2:04So that means instead of buying 10
47. 2:06things that are not needed, buy maybe
48. 2:08one or two.
49. 2:10Reuse. When something is almost worn
50. 2:13out, don't buy a new thing. So it's just
51. 2:16you cannot use it anymore.
52. 2:18Repair. When something breaks, try to
53. 2:21repair it. And if not, then you can buy
54. 2:23something and recycle. When something
55. 2:27breaks and you cannot fix it anymore,
56. 2:29just throw it away. But when throwing it
57. 2:30away, try if you can recycle it, recycle
58. 2:33it.
59. 2:38Um,
60. 2:40according to climate portal by MIT, the
61. 2:43fastest way that we can get rid of the
62. 2:45CO2 in our atmosphere is to stop adding
63. 2:48by them. What they mean by what they
64. 2:50mean by this is that uh the f is that we
65. 2:54should stop adding CO2 to our
66. 2:56atmosphere. And they they have they have
67. 3:00proposed by this by using technology and
68. 3:03or storing the CO2 that we already have
69. 3:06out in the environment or that we're
70. 3:08creating right now in ground.
71. 3:11This this would this would let us clean
72. 3:15the CO2 in our atmosphere by using
73. 3:17technology and or other causes like for
74. 3:20example photosynthesis that gets rid of
75. 3:22the CO2 and creates new oxygen.
76. 3:28If if these changes don't work, the last
77. 3:31according to NASA NASA, we should adapt
78. 3:34to our new environment.
79. 3:37Um they they say adapting to life in a
80. 3:40changing climate
81. 3:42involves adjusting to actual or expected
82. 3:45future climate. What they mean by this
83. 3:48is that we should look at the trends
84. 3:50that are that are happening in our earth
85. 3:54and uh expect what's in the future. So
86. 3:57by doing this when if it if the climate
87. 4:00gets so bad that we cannot reverse it,
88. 4:03we should protect ourselves to what the
89. 4:05weather can look like in the future and
90. 4:07or presently.
91. 4:09that this means making more food for for
92. 4:12us and or in increasing our agriculture.
93. 4:16Going into this, the USDA
94. 4:19says that we should adapt and make plans
95. 4:22for agriculture. What it means by this
96. 4:24connecting to NAS to the what NASA says
97. 4:27is that we should make plans to increase
98. 4:29our food our food and and make plans to
99. 4:33what what could happen during a disaster
100. 4:35that uh the earth gets too cold and or
101. 4:39too hot.
102. 4:41In conclusion,
103. 4:44climate change
104. 4:46is caused by CO2 that's released in the
105. 4:48atmosphere and it slowly heats up the
106. 4:53the the earth by because of its
107. 4:56greenhouse and does not let heat escape.
108. 5:00Secondly,
109. 5:02there are multiple ways to for us to
110. 5:05combat climate change climate change as
111. 5:07said before
112. 5:10uh but the two most effective are
113. 5:13stopping the rise of CO2 like like the
114. 5:17climate portal by MIT says
115. 5:24uh and removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
116. 5:27Those are the uh two ways that we can
117. 5:30stop climate change the fastest. If
118. 5:33these things don't work,
119. 5:36uh we should attempt to if our if our
120. 5:39attempts to um to combat climate change
121. 5:42don't work, we need to adapt to the new
122. 5:45climate.
123. 5:48Uh
124. 5:50climate change is not a problem that
125. 5:52started yesterday or that happened the
126. 5:55day before.
127. 5:57It's been it's been something that's
128. 5:59been there for some time now, but still
129. 6:02until recently we have seen how it can
130. 6:05actually affect our lives. This could
131. 6:08have been avoided a long time ago, but
132. 6:11we cannot go back in the past. We have
133. 6:15to see
134. 6:17uh we have to see what we can do now and
135. 6:21in the future so that someday our kids
136. 6:24and grandkids may have the opportunities
137. 6:27to experience the same things we've
138. 6:29experienced. Thank you. And that's my
139. 6:31speech.