Opinion: I'm 12, And I'm Already Tired Of Adults Destroying The Planet
Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living structure, is dying amid rising sea temperatures.
I don’t understand why people would vote for politicians who don’t really care about the environment, especially when so many people are now aware of the consequences. Some people either don’t want to believe that climate change is happening, or they think that it is someone else’s responsibility to sort it out. They don’t want to risk losing any money if they have to make big changes in their lives. Many think that money is more important than the environment.
Kids are watching as the coral reefs are bleached, houses are destroyed by floods, and fires burn the forests. Where I live, the heat waves were so intense this summer that wildlife was dropping dead from the trees. How can people accept this? How can adults put money or taxes before their own children and the natural world that sustains us?
Our politicians are not doing enough. They don’t want to change from coal to renewable energy, because of the power and money of the mining and energy industries. But you can’t have coral and coal. You can’t have a functioning planet if you keep burning fossil fuels. We sit in our classrooms learning about climate change and its awful effects, and then when we want to do something about it, the politicians criticize us.
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