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Felix explains: How everything began Wangari Maathai: Mama Miti – the “Mother of the Trees” Why did I join? “It‘s the little things citizens do. That‘s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.” Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient and environmental activist Why we children have to act 1.
Felix explains: How everything began Without my teacher this student initiative probably wouldn’t exist today. It was she who thought that in 2007 it was hightime for us students to start thinking about the climate crisis. The winter of 2006-2007 was an unusually warm one, and my teacher suspected that it could have something to do with global warming. In any case, she felt that we students should at least do a little research about it on the internet to see what we could find. I promised to give a presentation on the climate crisis the following Monday. So that weekend I watched Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth” and I copied slides for my presentation out of his book, which my grandfather had bought for me. When I read how much CO2 we are putting into the air with our cars, airplanes, houses, factories and power plants and what CO2 and the other greenhouse 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 haven’t * we done something? On the internet I read about Wangari Maathai from Kenya. During her life she has planted trees in many African countries and has also fought against the selfish interests of the rich.* Then I had the idea that we kids could plant trees too! Children all over the world could join in and work together, like a big global family! If Wangari Maathai can manage to make sure that 30 million trees in Africa are planted in 30 years, then we kids could absolutely do it too, planting at least one million trees in every country of the world, right? What exactly greenhouse gases are and why they are becoming more and more dangerous for our climate is explained on page 34. * Learn more 10 about Wangari Maathai on page 11 19. Wangari planting one of the thirty million trees.
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