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COMM 1007Final Exam
The social network recently spread a video of a 16 years old Swedish girl, Greta
Thunberg, giving an eloquent speech in the UN climate action forum. In an indignant
manner, this young climate activists left a wake-up call for everyone about
environmental awareness. She accused the older generation, particularly the world
leaders, of failing to fulfill their duties of devising practical solutions and actions.
According to Greta, despite knowing the situation, politicians still choose to ignore it and
instead, they say empty words about money and economic development; they have
stolen her dream by repudiating their responsibility to preserve the living environment
for her generations. In her speech, Greta pointed out the cutting emission in 10 years
only brings half chance to stay below 1.5 degrees temperature rise; the other half is risk
of future generations living with a huge amount of emitted CO2 and other consequences
of air pollution. At the end, she asserted that her generation is looking forward to
change from the leaders and if they still don't make any movement, they will never
receive forgiveness from the next generations. (PBS Newshours, 2019)
The situation of environmental pollution is becoming more serious worldwide and a
great threat to human life and other species. Despite many solutions proposed by
scientists, countries still need to enact stricter political changes and policies to
implement them. In a speech that shocked the world, Greta Thunberg addressed this
hot issue and assertively requires the authorities to carry out their duties of protecting
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