The document discusses environmental issues like deforestation, pollution, and global warming and their impact on Indonesia and the world. It notes that Indonesia has valuable rainforests that absorb greenhouse gases and produce oxygen, but deforestation is reducing these forests and exacerbating global warming. It urges people to participate in Earth Day and take simple actions to help the environment like reducing waste, recycling, and protecting forests. The future of the planet depends on collective action to address these threats.
The document discusses environmental issues like deforestation, pollution, and global warming and their impact on Indonesia and the world. It notes that Indonesia has valuable rainforests that absorb greenhouse gases and produce oxygen, but deforestation is reducing these forests and exacerbating global warming. It urges people to participate in Earth Day and take simple actions to help the environment like reducing waste, recycling, and protecting forests. The future of the planet depends on collective action to address these threats.
The document discusses environmental issues like deforestation, pollution, and global warming and their impact on Indonesia and the world. It notes that Indonesia has valuable rainforests that absorb greenhouse gases and produce oxygen, but deforestation is reducing these forests and exacerbating global warming. It urges people to participate in Earth Day and take simple actions to help the environment like reducing waste, recycling, and protecting forests. The future of the planet depends on collective action to address these threats.
"First of all, let us praise to the Almighty GOD, because of His
Blessing we are able to attend this English speech contest. Secondly,
may peace be upon the prophet GOD who has guided us from the darkness into the brightness. I would also like to say many thanks to the juries and MC who have given me opportunity to deliver an English speech in front of you all. Ladies and Gentlemen, The title of my speech is Save Our Earth; Save Our Forest. As we know, people from all over the world always commemorate Earth Day every 22nd April. The idea of earth day is based on the awareness to save this world from the environmental destruction. It aims at making global movements to participate actively in saving our earth the only planet in which we live. Our country, Indonesia, which is known as the emerald of equator, has an important role to keep the balance of world ecological system. 63 percent (or 1,134,000 km2) of our land territory is still as a forest. Meanwhile, the water area is more than 317,000,000 km2. 17 percent of world plant and animal species live in Indonesia. Our planet is in trouble !!! Almost everyday we seem to hear another problem affecting the earth such as pollution, waste, rainforest (deforestation), green house effect and many else. Nowadays, most of us know that these threats exist and that human have caused them. So, what can we do with this condition? Many of us are very worried about the future of our planet and unless we can find a way of solving the problems we have made then the earth will suffer even more. It all sounds so sad, but we certainly mustnt despair! Every of us, whatever age we are, can do something to help our planet. As populations grow and lifestyle change, we must keep the world in a good condition, so that the future generations will have the same natural resources that we have. Alright, for the first lets take a look at waste. We, humans, create such a lot of rubbish. We now produce just under a half ton per person each year (U.K Governments data). You can imagine how many rubbish will produce by the population today. Its so awful to cover this earth with rubbish. Now, I ask you a question, is all our rubbish really rubbish? If you think about it, much of what we throw away could be used again. As we know that there are two kinds of rubbish, organic and anorganic. The organic can be destroyet easily. We can make a compost from it, and its a good natural ferlilizer. And the anorganic, such as aluminium cans, glass bottles, plastic, etc cant be destroyed. We have to recycle it for a new things. It means we saved the natural resources using. Now for the second point is pollution. It happened in many different ways. Air is damaged by vehicles and factories fumes. Water is polluted by waste, detergen and chemicals. This pollution affects the health of living. A simple action that we can do for this problem such as use a bicycle or walk instead of using a car for a short trips. We also can use environmentally friendly products. The third point is rainforest (deforestation). Rainforest are valuable things. It is a habitat of a half species of animals and plants. Thousands of rainforest plants contain substance that can be used in medicines. Not only that, it also contribute to provide the oxygen and regulate the worlds climate. Yet despite their value, an area of rainforest is destroyed every year, and this is called deforestation. One and a half acres are cleared every second (U.K Governments data). You can imagine how many trees are cut down. As consequence, it often invites a disaster such as eroding and others. We have to stop deforestation. We need to protect our valuable assets. Do not use too many tropical hardwoods and do reforestation in the empty land. Finally, the last point is green house effect. Certain gases in the atmosphere, mainly carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorocarbons, act like the glass in a green house, allowing sunlight throught to heat the earths surface but trapping some of the heat as it radiates back into space. Without this, the earth would be frozen and lifeless. However, owning Mans activities, green house gases are building up in the atmosphere, causing a greater amount of heat to be reflected back to earth. The result is an increase in average world temperatures and is already causing more droughts, flooding and extreme weather condition such hurricanes. We can prevent this condition, start to reduce the pollution, recycle as much as waste you can, and keep our forest. So, what are you waiting for? Do what you can do today. Start from a little things. Dont waste time, our earth need our help. Save our earth means we saved our future !!!
It indicates that the ecosystem and environmental condition in
Indonesia will affect the world. In other words, the environmental damage in Indonesia will influence the sustainability of world environment.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
One of the causes of environmental damage is deforestation, or known as the destruction of forest. The deforestation has caused many disasters in this world, including Indonesia. Floods, earthquakes and landslides are examples of killing disasters which make us realize that the existence of forest is very important. In Addition, another effect of deforestation is related with the global warming or the increase of global surface temperature which is mainly caused by the green house effects. We all know, one of the most crucial issues in celebrating Earth Day is the global warming. It warns us that our earth is in danger and we should participate actively to take care of our environment.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The question is, what is the relationship between Earth Day, global warming, deforestation, and Indonesia? Indonesia lies in the equator, between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn Because of its location, Indonesia is rich of rainforests. Scientists state that the function of rainforests is as the lungs of the world. They absorb greenhouse gas emissions, turn carbon dioxide (CO2) into oxygen (O2). It means that if deforestation keeps going on, the greenhouse effects can not be reduced and finally the global warming will keep increasing. Ladies and Gentlemen, We live in the same world; in this earth. The importance of saving our environment, especially our rainforests, is the need for all of us, for human being to survive. It is not only for us, but also for our next generation. USE ALTERNATIVE FUELS, SAVE PLANET EARTH We are all aware of the current state of our environment. Mother Earth is on the brink of total destruction brought about by pollution, irresponsible use of resources, and the excessive use of conventional fuel such as fossil fuel and nuclear energy
There are many simple activities that we can do in order to participate
in saving our earth. Here are some examples: 1. Stop deforestation and do reforestation movement 2. Reduce fuel consumption 3. Use environmentally friendly products 4. Reduce the use / purchase of goods made of plastic because almost all of plastic waste will produce harmful gases when burned and can pollute the environment. 5. Be efficient in the use of water and electrical energy consumption 6. Reduce the use of materials containing aerosols 7. Join and participate in environmental campaigns, such as Earth Day, Save Our Earth and Stop Global Warming. How to we save the earth Our planet is in great danger. The people of earth have wasted and misused the natural recourses of earth. Several plans have been developed to stop the abuse of earth.Environmental problems have become so complex that many individuals feel they can have no effect on them.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I think thats all my speech. Hopefully it will be useful for all of us. Thank you very much for your attention."