4.THE+ENVIRONMENT

DEAR MR. PRESIDENT.

I know you will soon be taking part in the Copenhaguen Summit on Climate Change. My name's María Pérez Soto and I am a 1º Bachillerato student at IES El Palo school in Màlaga. My school is currently involved in a Comenius project whose main topic has to do, among other things, with the impact of CO2 in the environment and consequently the climate change and the nasty consequences that seem to be coming upon the world. I would like to show my concern for the state of our planet, at large, as well as our country,in particular. The current state of affairs is pretty bad: I think the world is in a big problem now becouse it is passing trough a narrow path in which it can fall down every moment. I think that if we dont do anything, all that suround us will end in a no very far future. The greenhouse effect warms up the planet so that everything is changing very quickly, the vegetation no longer is the same, for example, the poles are melting and its fauna will change, all these changes would begin affecting the animals and the vegetation but it will end up affecting the civilized world. The greenhouse effect has always existed, it is one of the conditions that allowed the earth to have life. Now this effect is going to destroy everything we know becouse it has increased too much. I would like to make some suggestions too that I am sure would be helpful if we don't want the climate change to get to the point of no return:
 * I think we can do more publicity about the climate change, we can go to the schools, to the university. We can do some TV programmes about this topic...
 * In our homes we can reduce the contamination by turning off lights or by closing taps.
 * I think the goverment can help, for example doing the public transport easier to use.
 * In our schools we can use some of those new technology such as solar energy so we use less energy.
 * We can do some reforestation plans, we can go with schools and plants same trees. These could be a very interesting activity for children.

Please, do your best to help our planet, our home before it's too late

Signed

María Pérez soto.

Thanks for the corrections. Have a nice Christmas holidays, María. Please, pass my good wishes to your parents too.