Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I am Isaac Kirkman. Thank you for listening to our presentation so far, and I ask for just a few more minutes of your time.
As you can tell, our presentation has been on pollution. So far we have bombarded you with facts on the three types of pollution, all of which are rather negative, but I am here today to tell you about what we can change. According to our statistics two-thirds of our audience believe that pollution has gotten worse in their lifetime.Many people have said that this generation is the generation of change, the one that will finally turn things for the better.
All of those here today that did research for this project, the depression, the obesity, and the texting while driving, I’m gonna assume that your data has not gotten better over the years, it has slowly declined for the worse.
Ladies and gentlemen that is not change, that is condemnation. (Dramatic pause, look around, then come back strong.) If we are to be that generation of change and give the future generations a future of hope, then it starts here.
In a movie that came out somewhat recently, “Interstellar,” they got a few things right. How many of you here want to go into engineering? O.K. In this movie two of the main actors are having a conversation on whether or not to go into space, and one says, “Where did we go wrong?” The other’s response is something that was really deep, he said, “We didn’t need more engineers, we need more farmers.” This movie is from a second generation pilot forced farmer and the only thing that is growing, on Earth, is corn because that is the only thing that can grow. One of the FFA’s prized statements is that corn is grown in all fifty states, and that’s because it is so tolerable. That’s because the environment had decayed so much that the soil could only grow corn. These fictional characters had become so obsessed in the newest gadget, that they forgot about the environment. The pollution and neglect on the environment had caused the air and soil to be extremely…. unclean. When they realized how much they needed food to sustain the increased population, it was too late. They realized it was hopeless and the “last to starve will be the first to suffocate.”
That’s not a place that I want to live in or leave behind. Therefore I want to propose our plan. Yes, we can pick-up trash but that’s not really an original plan. Our previous plan was to test the quality of our local rivers, but we later realized, we didn’t know what we would do with that collected information. This lead us to our new plan. This plan, as simple as it may be, it will be extremely useful, is to plant a tree. Mike McAliney was quoted in his book, Arguments for Land Conservation, saying, “A single mature tree can absorb carbon dioxide at a rate of 48 lbs./year and release enough oxygen back into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings." Ladies and gentlemen, for each tree that we plant we could be saving two lives. According to World Bank, in 2013 there was a recorded 7.125 billion people on this Earth. NASA “went out on a limb” and recorded in 2005 that there were roughly 400 billion trees on Earth. But keep in mind that there was only 6.5 billion people then. If you do the math, then things don’t look so good. Between an exponential population growth and more trees needed to sustain this population, that movie looks like it might have gotten it right.
With this one tree we hope to not only save two lives, but also encourage others to go out and plant a tree, saving more live. Together, we can make a difference.
Thank you for your time and this concludes our project on Making a Difference. Are there any questions?
As you can tell, our presentation has been on pollution. So far we have bombarded you with facts on the three types of pollution, all of which are rather negative, but I am here today to tell you about what we can change. According to our statistics two-thirds of our audience believe that pollution has gotten worse in their lifetime.Many people have said that this generation is the generation of change, the one that will finally turn things for the better.
All of those here today that did research for this project, the depression, the obesity, and the texting while driving, I’m gonna assume that your data has not gotten better over the years, it has slowly declined for the worse.
Ladies and gentlemen that is not change, that is condemnation. (Dramatic pause, look around, then come back strong.) If we are to be that generation of change and give the future generations a future of hope, then it starts here.
In a movie that came out somewhat recently, “Interstellar,” they got a few things right. How many of you here want to go into engineering? O.K. In this movie two of the main actors are having a conversation on whether or not to go into space, and one says, “Where did we go wrong?” The other’s response is something that was really deep, he said, “We didn’t need more engineers, we need more farmers.” This movie is from a second generation pilot forced farmer and the only thing that is growing, on Earth, is corn because that is the only thing that can grow. One of the FFA’s prized statements is that corn is grown in all fifty states, and that’s because it is so tolerable. That’s because the environment had decayed so much that the soil could only grow corn. These fictional characters had become so obsessed in the newest gadget, that they forgot about the environment. The pollution and neglect on the environment had caused the air and soil to be extremely…. unclean. When they realized how much they needed food to sustain the increased population, it was too late. They realized it was hopeless and the “last to starve will be the first to suffocate.”
That’s not a place that I want to live in or leave behind. Therefore I want to propose our plan. Yes, we can pick-up trash but that’s not really an original plan. Our previous plan was to test the quality of our local rivers, but we later realized, we didn’t know what we would do with that collected information. This lead us to our new plan. This plan, as simple as it may be, it will be extremely useful, is to plant a tree. Mike McAliney was quoted in his book, Arguments for Land Conservation, saying, “A single mature tree can absorb carbon dioxide at a rate of 48 lbs./year and release enough oxygen back into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings." Ladies and gentlemen, for each tree that we plant we could be saving two lives. According to World Bank, in 2013 there was a recorded 7.125 billion people on this Earth. NASA “went out on a limb” and recorded in 2005 that there were roughly 400 billion trees on Earth. But keep in mind that there was only 6.5 billion people then. If you do the math, then things don’t look so good. Between an exponential population growth and more trees needed to sustain this population, that movie looks like it might have gotten it right.
With this one tree we hope to not only save two lives, but also encourage others to go out and plant a tree, saving more live. Together, we can make a difference.
Thank you for your time and this concludes our project on Making a Difference. Are there any questions?