Do you remember when we were learning about environment in elementary school?
As kids, it seemed unneccessary and unimportant to us.
The only thing that mattered was the bell ring,
when we go home and when the relax begins.
We were young and wrapped in ourselves.
We didn't pay attention to our immediate environment at all.
We were throwing thrash on the ground, and we almost never cleaned it up.
We didn't care about environment around us,
not around the world.
AFTER ALL, IT DOESN'T AFFECT US.
Except, we were wrong.
It has alway affected us and now it’s affecting us even more.
Nowadays, people blind their eyes before the importance of enviromental protection.
They don't want to see the global issues and they believe that one individual can't change anything.
Although, it's enough to begin from ourselves.
Instead, however, we deal with short-term problems and we devote our entire lives to chasing money.
We are greedy and selfish.
We only see ourselves and condemn the others.
We aren't interested in the uncontrolled industry growth or glaciers melting.
We are interested in whether we have more than the one next to us.
While, in the world, magical places are literally disappearing every moment.
Did you know that with every second, an area of size of a football field disappears from the Amazon rainforest?
You may ask, why should you be interested.
Why should you be interested in some forests and rising sea levels?
Maybe because the beautiful units of nature are disappearing right before our eyes
Amazing sceneries, spectacular natural phenomena and breathtaking nature,
that can charge us with such energy, that you can’t buy with all the money in the world.
All of it will irretrievably disappear.
Man has always been a part of nature and can't exist without it.
However, nature can exist with no man.
Therefore, we encourage you to learn how to live on Earth as humans,
and let's give our children a chance to watch a blue sky full of birds,
to exult over huge waterfalls, to discover caves and endless forests.
Because our planet is not like an apartment that we live in.
It is unable to repair it, sell it and buy another one.
It is the only place where we can live and experience,
discover, explore, feel big and yet so small.
Let's live so that the generations after us can live the same life.
Because nature is the only place, which can recuperate anyone in this world
without having to save money for several years, or having to repay it.
All of us can enjoy the nature,
regardless of who we are and what we do.
Let's save the remains of the nature and let's help to turn the scales together.
Because even a small gesture can change the world.
Let's be better people and let's fight for the continuous growth of the nature.
Maybe one day, we will together achieve something as big,
as what the people here in Iceland did in the past.
Fauna and flora almost thrives here and, so-called, living island continues to grow.
However, it is destroyed by the rest of the world,
which participates on the fact, that glaciers are disappearing gradually.
Let's stop this phenomenon together
and let's talk about issues.
We have already learned a lesson,
now it's your turn.