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Our planet needs help
To take care of our planet is a matter of life and death, because there are
a lot of ecological problems on our earth. We mustn’t make a mess of
things, we must have a heart to the world around us; we shouldn’t be
afraid to face the problems because while there is life there is hope.
People burn forests without thinking that for the biggest part of them it is
either very difficult or impossible to recover. Wild life is in danger of
disappearance. We destroy habitats and think that we are sitting in
different boats, though actually we are in the same one.
Wastes from factories become a cause of environmental pollution. Big
cities and tiny villages breathe in harmful substances that may lead to
cancer.
Deforestation of our planet leads to a flow of consequences: different
animals and birds are in danger of disappearing forever; lack of oxygen;
rare plants are lost for our offspring. We poison not only our land but
also our water, the water we are to drink in the near future. The poisons
kill the wildlife around us as well.
Continuously growing number of people is the cause of shortages of
food supplies and starvation. Factories, a great number of cars, loss of
care for the environment lead to the problems not only related to the
cities which are highly industrialized but also all over the world.
So we can see that our planet is dying. Help it! Don’t be late!
Pavel Mikhnevich
Age 11 years
Gymnasium #12, Minsk
Belarus
I wish…
Every one has a lot of wishes and desires, but my one most important
and dearest wish is that I could fly, fly high in the sky sitting on the soft
clouds of cotton and eating the world’s largest banana split with nuts,
chocolate topping and scoops of delicious milky ice-cream. There would
be scrumptious frothy cream with bright scarlet strawberries. Do you
think my wish could every come true?
Hadiyah Qayyum
Alif Laila Book Bus Society, Lahore
Pakistan
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