Xiye Bastida : If you adults won't save the world, we will

 Xiye Bastida·TED2020

If you adults won’t save the world, we will

Summary

This was a letter that the speaker wrote for her grandmother. When grandmother was born, there must have been a lot of nature around the world, though, oceans and sky are now polluted but we still use much energy. It leads to climate change and we cannot see that adults try to save the world. However, the speaker and students learned that the earth has the power of resilience. The speaker and children love not only the earth but parents, grandparents, teachers, and friends, they are appropriate for being born and all things that passed down to them. Thus she participated in the event and strikes to save the world. She said that she didn’t know what to do at first, the world is so big, and it has so many bad habits. However, she thought she had to try and she said when businesses turn sustainable, the power grid runs on renewable energy, people use a reusable bag, our consumption doesn’t harm the earth, and taking care of the Earth is part of our humanity, it should be our normal life and children and students can study without strikes.

She wants to sing, dance, study, and meet her grandmother more than being full-time climate activists.

For that, we who live in the world have to cooperate with her to save the world. This was the great letter to not only her grandmother but us.