We Can Be More – a 13-year-old poet’s campaign to save the world | Solli Raphael | TEDxSydney

we can be more we can be more than nice
packaging on our wasted products we can
be more than paper cups and paper cups
we can be more than a more pollution a
solution we can be more than plastic
bags tacking flags all over our sea
life’s population we could be more than
idea but a wasted minutia discussing a
future evolution to the future
resolution confusion because evolution
is just to prove an illusion about how
our home will soon be ruins but we can
be more we could be more than trying to
ignore the war on waste we could be more
than a future of Haste’s moving us
towards a disaster being complete and
we’ve had a third of the food we eat
that’s more disgusting than the sweat
amongst our feet it’s true you think
it’s up to the factories but it’s really
up to you so next time you go into the
shops think about all the crops ripped
off farmers plastic bags and those those
who dedicate their lives to the war on
waste pursue because it’s all in people
power people have the power to make the
people greedy
or equals through the sequels of our
days changing our ways can rephrase our
answer to yes yes I will change opening
a new page starting a new stage entering
a new age in saving our world because
this this is something we can’t erase
and yet we’re still choosing money over
something that’s irreplaceable and here
it looks so right but over there
it’s disgraceful because our home is
dying our ice caps are crying our
ecosystems are sawing while we keep
buying keeping our business ships
sailing but at tips a failing to
maintain our rubbish and when when did
our planet deserve to be punished yet
they say everything’s fine don’t listen
to our planet we will never need to
change we will never need to change
because everything will always stay the
same and then it’s gone but we could
still be more
we could be more on their thriving all
the mistakes on the dock sides we could
be more than travelling through carbon
dioxide with carbon monoxide we could be
more than bypassing the fact that global
warming is a global warning of heat and
if you can’t conceive it doesn’t mean
you should have believed it because we
can change coal mines to solar inclines
by taking a step with our feet we could
be more than this because their home is
infinity to what money could ever be
worth and realized that your litter is a
bitter pinch to the earth we could be
more than this we could be more can’t we
[Applause] [Music]