Speech in English: The Importance of Healthy and Sustainable Environment

Speech on Fourth Winner in East Java  Province for SMA/MA/SMK Level

Assamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh

Your Excellency President of this Agenda

The Honorable Juries                                                                                       

My beloved brothers and sisters

Firstly, all praises be to Allah, the lord of the world, the master of the day after, the creator of everything in this universe and he has no partner.

Secondly, blessing and salutation always be given to the last messenger, Prophet Muhammad SAW who had guided us from the darkness to the lightness, from stupidity to the cleverness, from jahiliyah era into islamiyah era until we can get the best religion namely Islamic religion.

Thirdly, I don’t forget to say thanks very much to the master of ceremony who has given me opportunity to deliver my speech entitled “the importance of healthy and sustainable environment ”.

Well, brothers and sisters

As we all know that cleanness is the most important thing in our life because by having clean environment, we will get good health and of course we can do all our daily activities well. But today’s era many people do not care the environment around them. So it can lessen the quality of cleanness and it can make uninteresting environment. Uninteresting environment can also be called by a dirty environment which consists of many diseases. So it can damage the people’s health till they cannot do anything because of being sick

Well, happy audiences ladies and gentlemen.

 Almost many people have known that it is very complicated for us to get cleanness if we do not have strong desire to start it from our own self. We are from senior high school students and good students who love environment. We must keep our environment clean and green. The effort to get health is only having a good sense of care to the environment around. So the God would kindly to give us a health because as said:” cleanness is part of belief.” .That is God likes best. In this case we can say that a healthy environment is the most essential one to have good health and nice life for a bright future

Well, happy audiences ladies and gentlemen.

Besides, it is also advantageous keeping our environment sustainable. We have to do anything by not utilizing the natural resources excessively and balancing it in daily life. Unfortunately, we can see nowadays that the destruction of our earth is due to our attitude as human being. If we cannot survive our environment well, of course the world will change harmful and it will become global warming.

Happy brothers and sisters

Prince Charles, in his delivery speech at Oxford to mark 25^th anniversary of the Oxford Center of Islamic Studies on June 15^th , 2010 said that many of Nature's vital, life-support systems nowadays struggled to cope under the strain of global industrialization. How they will manage if millions people achieve Western levels of consumption is highly disturbing to contemplate. The problems are only going to get much worse, particularly about climate change in the run up to the Copenhagen conference in 2009.

The actual facts are that over the last half century, for instance, we have destroyed at least thirty percent of the world's tropical rainforests and if we continue to chop them down at the present rate, by 2050 we will end up with a very disturbing situation. In fact, in the three years since we started our Rainforest Project to try and help find an innovative solution to tropical deforestation, over 30 million hectares have been lost, and with them this planet has lost about 80,000 species. When we consider that a given area of equatorial trees evaporates eight times as much as rainwater as an equivalent patch of ocean, we quickly start to see how their disappearance will affect the productivity of the Earth. They produce billions of tones of water every day and without that rainfall the world's food security will become very unstable.

The Britain’s Prince even challenges us to act responsibly toward the environment. What makes humankind’s predatory environmental practices so unethical and immoral, the Prince said, is that they are “contrary to the teachings of each and every one of the world’s sacred traditions.” The solution to our deepening environmental crisis cannot be solved by science and technology alone. “Only sacred traditions have the capacity to help this happen.”

  Happy audiences ladies and gentlemen

Well, it is very important for us to understand more about the earth where we stay nowadays, that’s in 2008 possible global recession, food shortage, conflict between nations over dwindling natural recourses. The world population will surpass 6.6 billion and for next of 2100 a combination of global warming and other factor will push many ecosystems to the limit forcing them to exceed the natural ability to adapt the climate change.

As human being we will not have eternal life because it’s our destiny as creature of the god Allah, where there is a creator there is creature. To understand more about the climate of our earth nowadays, let’s elaborate you that we are now in the middle of climate change timeline that the earth will be worse than before. So we are in danger right now. Remember that there is no longer any doubt that every ecosystem that life depends on is compromised and in danger.

And what’s also discussed by Prof. Dzul Kifly Abdul Razak, a Malaysian scientist in seminar of sustainable development conducted in State University of Malang at 9^th of February 2009 is that we are now in the middle of the world life and it will be more dangerous because of earth changes between green and red.

In 1819 we still live in a green sign. Year to year it turns out worse especially in the predicted time in 2100 our earth will appear extremely redline or globally very warmed.

Thankful to the God because now our beloved country, Indonesia in his study is included country whose Biocapacity is more than 50 %.It means that we still live safely for the time being, unlike most of European countries and some of Asian countries that are lack of biocapacity.

Additionally, our country which is known as the emerald of equator, has an important role to keep the balance of world ecological system. 63 percent (or 1,134,000 km2) of our land territory is still as a forest. Meanwhile, the water area is more than 317,000,000 km2. 17 percent of world plant and animal species live in Indonesia. It indicates that the ecosystem and environmental condition in Indonesia will affect the world. In other words, the environmental damage in Indonesia will influence the sustainability of world environment.

That’s why, we as youth generation must not let it less day by day. It is our responsibilities to stay in balance between our life and environment. If so, what should we undertake as students of senior high school?  Let me give you a simple action that can be hazardous or beneficial for us. In our school environment today actually we still don’t understand what we have to do for the rubbish around us. To solve the rubbish we must not burn it because it’s very dangerous for the ecosystem under the rubbish or around it. Animals under or at the ground will die if we burn the garbage. It is right for us to make a hole, put it inside and let it be a compos.

So the recycle of the environment will run well. Otherwise, it will make the earth harmful till what we have known global warming can be done actively. So please beware of our action that causes bad impact for ourselves.

So I sum up that we have to keep our environment clean through our real activity and do fruity things to make it remain sustainable. Last but not least GO CLEAN AND GO GREEN INDONESIA!

I think that is all what I can present for this time if I have many mistakes in my speech pardon me please! Finally I say …

Wassalmu alaikum Warahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh