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Population | Lily Wang | TEDxYouth@HuoShaYuZhen


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good afternoon ladies and gentlemen
my name is Lily and today I’ll be
talking about how damaging pollution is
their maintained types of pollution
factories co2 PM 2.5 and many more but
this speech is focused on plastic waste
and car emissions in China this affects
a vast amount of trained citizens
firstly because their supermarkets have
you been in any supermarkets of China
before if you have you will know that
these plastic bags carry your groceries
if you look closely at the counter you
will see that they have racks and racks
of plastic bags all shapes and sizes but
what do you do with the bags when you
get home many people throw them away
throwing plastic away will increase the
pollution and that is horrible for
environment globally we use 160,000
plastic bags every second these plastics
when thrown in landfills or elsewhere
find their way into our oceans killing
the marine animals that mistake them for
food what makes plastics so harmful to
human animal and plant life is that
they’re non biodegradable it only starts
secreting in 700 years this means that
all the plastic that’s ever been
produced has not degraded yet even when
degrades it doesn’t turn to some other
form that gets absorbed by nature if fo
degrees which mean only turns into
smaller toxic bits of itself this is
just the tip of the plastic garbage
issues that’s alarm environmentalists
these days have you seen all the masks
you have to wear because of air
pollution a lie last year Chinese
shoppers spent 870 million RMB buying
the Metabo
earlier this year officials in Shanghai
because they’re disagreeing between
three my protective master residents
masks are also bad for environment
with that a really good idea is for you
to bring your own travel bag or anything
can keep and reuse every time you go to
the supermarket or buy some groceries
this way plastic bags won’t be used and
everyone will be much healthier which
leads on to my next point health is a
big concern for many families and
parents pollution can harm us in many
ways it can cause many short-term
respiratory symptoms such as coughing
dirt irritation chest tightness wheezing
and shortness of breath as well as other
long-term damages and aggravation of
other diseases children are more
vulnerable to the effects of pollution
than adults because they spend more time
outdoors and they breathe fat adults –
also children’s lungs are still
developing and also work exits outdoors
for extended periods of time also
vulnerable toxic pollution
who’sa contaminated water soil and air
that is harmful or poisonous it includes
industrial wastes such as toxic heavy
metal from mining or chemicals from
factories or even sewage and particle
aids from power plants toxic pollution
can cause the risk of developing cancer
and cause non-conscious negative health
effects have you looked at the rows in
China if you have you will see that
there are cars on every rows you look at
the main reason why people away for
school travel and work is traffic but
science laying people two important jobs
such as doctors or firemen cars also
pollute the area heavily why are buses
provided I will just take their cars if
I went to public transport the world
would be a much better place because
there will be less traffic and less
pollution there are lots of positive
races take the bus the subway or even
the bike for example the traffic will be
much lighter since the cars take up most
the road with everyone using less
vehicles means less pollution biking is
also extremely good exercise analyst
goes on
riding the bike can also save time for
sure journeys because you could go to
gym for an hour and only brain alone to
amount of carbs similarly you could ride
your bike to school or to work and
exercise at the same time
additionally public bikes are provided
across the city in fact there are so
many that most who can easily access one
these bikes are invented just to sit
there they’re supposed to be helping
citizens in conclusion we need to get
rid of pollution to make the world a
better place in order to do that people
need to use fabric bags and not passing
advice in the supermarkets people should
take public transport and exercise more
with this I urge you support the
environment and change your lifestyle a
bit when you see the change and the fact
of the world you will want to do more
health you can save the environment
thank you
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