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Boot the bottle | Julia Grifferty | TEDxYouth@ACS


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hi my name is Julia graffiti and earlier
this year I started an initiative called
Blue Bottle advocating for people the
developed world like you and me to not
be dependent on vault water as our
drinking source but rather using a
reusable bottle and a water dispenser
now Miss Rose was completely right
everyone who has blue sweater moment
remembers it I distinctly remember by
actually have been down that hallway
mrs. broader 7th grade science her she
showed us a video called story of a
bottle that’s what set me off
it probably cue today with the bottom
but whatever told you that this campaign
against plastic water bottles is
actually about some justice
it’s about people being dependent on
plastic water bottles surprise you of
your money damages your health emits co2
impacts everyone and unfairly harms
people in developing countries we should
be bottle booting the bottle will save
you money in your first year switching
to a reusable bottle you yourself can
save up to 140 dirt and collectively in
the high school over 50,000 Durham
campus safe now if you continue this
trend for four consecutive years you
yourself can save up to 680 down more
money in their pocket but now the high
school collectively over two hundred
thousand Durham can be saved
the possibilities are feminists for what
that money could burn instead but in the
bottle will save money and it can save
her health as bottles are made from PT
in BPA petroleum which they just into
the water and into your body as you
drink Herman in BPA is linked diabetes
cardiovascular diseases and interferes
with reproductive development according
to the Harvard School of Public Health
now the plastic is bad for you even the
broader it’s packaged
it’s bad for you as well the
Environmental Working Group detects on
10 brands bottled water
38 contaminants including what you see
here arsenic
radioactive isotopes fertilizer residue
urban waste water caffeine isit
pharmaceuticals and variety of
cancer-causing byproducts not to mention
the plastic bottles during the longer
you may use them the more bacteria grows
in a pool and the longer and it’s reused
the more BPA just into the water and the
more serious your health can be affected
so these so thought clean water is quite
dirty actually and this is troublesome
because consumption rates of plastic
bottles skyrocketed in recent years due
to some misleading ad campaigns and yes
plastic bottles doom pack consumers
health but also it impacts the entire
world as plastic balls the monstrous
amounts of carbon dioxide during
production and transportation during
production takes an immense amount heat
energy to produce the ball in
transportation bottles has across seas
and continents to get to the market now
this is troublesome because NASA has
concluded the reason the earth is
warming is because we are pumping
increasing amounts of carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere this impacts
everyone because carbon emissions are a
significant climate change contributor
the influences the frequency and
magnitude of extreme weather events now
this is backed up by American
Meteorological Society and this extreme
mother has detrimental impacts on
society of people like you and me here
today first things first
high intensity hurricanes increase the
frequency and magnitude as can devastate
entire nations take lives and destroy
homes just two years ago this was
experienced by the u.s. East Coast as
it’s battered by Hurricane sandy this is
just one of many it devastated the
coastline took lives and destroyed home
and this is detrimental impacts on
society not only does extreme mother
include storms but also severe flooding
effects and as you can see here flooding
can engulf entire coast lines making
highly populated cosines really
vulnerable and this vulnerability was
shown my example I just said Hurricane
sandy a storm surge so great it made its
way to New York’s famous subway system
as you can see they’re shutting it down
for days
yes extreme weather does include this
end spectrum with storms and severe
flooding but also the other end of it
with heat it’s more than just a regular
heat wave rising temperatures influence
the frequency and magnitude of droughts
causing widespread crop failures driving
down from production driving up food
prices and who was more expensive and
less available food guess this affects
us here the developer also stressed the
poor even more desperately not only does
this affect our food production but also
our water sources affecting from small
villages to entire nations now this dry
condition makes a lot of places as shown
this image will nourish these drier
conditions Jos haven’t seen that six out
of seven continents the recent years
that from this image probably tell those
slightly in your own home country rising
temperatures also increase the
likelihood of wildfires yes this
threatening image has been seen by some
just this year running away from their
own neighborhoods being burnt to the
ground so extreme weather like I just
mentioned might just affect you or
factors family or take a loved one’s
life act is predicted to increase this
image here shows a climate for us reject
climate to look like in our lifetime no
matter your age if we don’t curb our
carbon emissions and by that we don’t
turn down our classic auto consumption
this is what we hear this is what we’re
going to experience and right now in the
early 2000
as you can see in this very top image
yes for experiencing secure weather if
you don’t like it now just get ready for
born this image here shows the weather
the 2060s
they’re not too big on your age of that
could be when you’re alive your
grandchildren three days and I
definitely don’t want to be alive a few
of these difficulties this might just
affect you your family particular level
it’s like in this climate change maybe
by certain countries this image here is
a distortion of country size according
to carbon emissions now you’ve got your
regulars you’ve got us
China India then if you look closely you
can see us little old UAE this small
country in fact has the largest carbon
footprint in the entire world as a
standard making our responsibility to
reduce that as residents of this country
classic moral consequences doesn’t act
entire world
the much of its harm is targeted those
countries can barely see on this map the
ones who are not the main contributors
of carbon emissions or past bubbles yet
fill its consequence in developing
countries it is not fair and most of 80
percent of plastic bottles by central
landfills overseas in developing
countries it is not fair the poverty
stricken families living in or valued
landfills are forced to rethink the
toxic decomposition of our plastic which
is dioxin this each year shows one
example of a called Smoky Mountain in
phenomena a Cambodia it is a 100 Acre
landfill of burning waste
Smoky Mountain gets its name from the
white fumes of eyes from burning trash
fumes of dioxin and heavy toxic metals
which leads to serious health effects
and each day 2,000 workers for Kano
around the sledge forced to rethink its
dioxin remind you some of these workers
aren’t just one met one supporters of
these workers are children and each day
they die offs and their breathing in is
late
cancer impairment of the immune system
irregularities of the nervous system and
reproductive function these charges
across the bow are killing the
detrimental impact of our plastic in our
weights how is that fair
it’s like someone throwing their weight
into your backyard piling up the plastic
box so you are the one breathing in this
dioxin and you are the one who made it
cancer this evening happens to so many
around the world
Smoky Mountains exist in numerous
countries Palace affair that those who
are not the main contributors of carbon
emissions from plastic feel its
consequence so the least we can do is to
reduce by booting the bottle this is
something we can do every single day who
did the bottle will do good for everyone
for us it will reduce our monetary loss
reduce our health damage and for others
it will reduce our carbon footprint and
reduce our negative impact innocent
people across the world remember each
time you don’t buy a plastic water
bottle you are supporting the world to
the future
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