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“When I read how much CO2 we
are putting into the air with our
cars, airplanes, houses, factories,
and power plants and what
carbon dioxide and the other
green house gases do to the
atmosphere, it made me really
upset. With the warming of the
climate, the melting of the
glaciers, and rising of the oceans
– our future is being destroyed,
and people are just simply sitting
around discussing it! Why aren’t
we doing anything?”
Everything began in 2007 with a
simple school presentation from
the then 9-year-old Felix. In it he
explained to his classmates how
the greenhouse effect works and
what the terrible consequences
of the resulting rise in global
temperatures will be –
if we humans don’t do something
to stop it.
However, Felix had also read
about how trees can capture
these dangerous greenhouse
gases. So he ended his presentation
with the words, “Let us plant
a million trees in every country on
Earth!”
That was the beginning of the
student initiative Plant-for-the-
Planet, which has since then
developed into a truly global
movement. Through this
campaign, the children are not
only planting trees all over the
world. As young world citizens
they are fi ghting for climate
justice.