Climate change - from one kid to another | Bandi Guan | TEDxYouth@GrandviewHeights

[Music] as kids we have a lot of things we need to know and lessons we have to learn right grown-ups are always telling us to do stuff and learn stuff our parents do it and our teachers do it too but i guess at least they have an excuse at least it's their job but although grown-ups are really boring and don't even know how to have fun and play games they do know some important stuff like where to buy the best toys or how to drive to restaurants or about even more important things like climate change

but honestly although it doesn't sound very exciting climate change is one of the most important things we need to know about because it's happening right here right now on earth the earth you may know it as the blue and green ball you see in your textbooks it's the place where you and i live yes this one right here and we have nowhere else to go so if we don't learn about climate change and take it seriously we won't have a future on earth at all so right now let's talk about what causes climate change why

you need to know about all this and most importantly what you can do to help so how do i first know about climate change well i first watched a video about it with my mom and she explained it to me but basically i'm going to give you facts so simple that even a child can understand oh wait that's right i'm a child the problem is that the earth is getting hotter and hotter every single day if it keeps on warming and if we don't take action right now we will not survive period now let me

ask you a question what happens when you play outside in the hot sun the whole day you'll feel hot you sweat and get dizzy right sometimes you even have to lie down or maybe have a cool drink or an ice cream to cool down because your body is overheated right now imagine the hottest summer day that you can remember and multiply that by 10. now imagine going outside and trying to play what would happen how long would you be able to play for would you even go outside i wouldn't and i'm sure you wouldn't either

if we don't do something about climate change the fact is we'll change this whole world into a gigantic oven and trust me it won't be any fun at all so what causes climate change well it's a combination of things one of the main problems is that we still love using fossil fuels which are things like coal and oil when we have big cities cars and planes we need energy the coal and oil to keep them moving so we burn these things to use as fuel but the problem is when we burn them they release lots

of harmful gases into the air and then we go around cutting out loads of trees to make room for people and raise more animals to feed us some of these fire animals release more gases into the atmosphere than all the cars and ranch on the road and cows cows are the worst they're burping and farting yes farting creates nearly 20 of all the harmful gases released into the atmosphere the proper word for the dangerous gases the cows fossil fuels and other things create is greenhouse gases they get their name because they rise up into the

sky and create a blanket of gas that covers the earth when more and more greenhouse gases get least the blanket gets thicker and thicker trapping all the hot air under it which makes the earth heat up more and more every year just like a greenhouse and it's not a lie if 97 of scientists agree in climate change who are we to question that maybe you don't mind global warming because you live in canada and i know it can get pretty cold here in the wintertime but for the rest of us around the world we know

that the earth is getting harder and hotter we know that's melting glaciers and causing seal to rise and we know as long as we keep on destroying the planet like this all living things are in danger plants animals me and you and all the humans on this planet too so what do we do how do we stop it from happening anymore how do we fix all things that have gone bad well we need a really big change right now because it's you and i we're the problem look in the mirror now do you see the

problem well we need a really big change right now we need to change the way we live today so that we can have a better future tomorrow so what do we do how do we stop it from happening anymore how do we fix all things that have gone bad because it's you and i where's the problem look in the mirror now do you see the problem well we need a really big change right now we need to change the way we live today so that we can have a better future tomorrow everyone needs to stop

eluding and start doing things that we know will help like saving energy planting trees saving water there are so many things that we can all do and i won't have time to tell you all of them right now just have time to tell you what is happening and that we have to do something before it's too late every person in this room kids like me and you and parents too we can all do something to help the best way to start is by learning more about it we all have internet connections and computers so we

can watch some videos like i did we can read about it in books we can ask our parents and our teachers to tell us more about it because the more we know about it the more we can do something about it so let's stop the pollution stop climate change and make the earth better again this is our home and we all live here start taking care of it together and create a future that we can all be proud of thank you [Music]