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Small Change - Big Difference?

The document emphasizes the importance of individual and collective action in addressing climate change, arguing that small changes can lead to significant impacts. It highlights the role of schools in fostering awareness and engagement among students, while also acknowledging the influence of corporations and government in environmental issues. Ultimately, it calls for a moral imperative to act for the planet's future, encouraging collaboration among students, educators, and families.

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Small Change - Big Difference?

The document emphasizes the importance of individual and collective action in addressing climate change, arguing that small changes can lead to significant impacts. It highlights the role of schools in fostering awareness and engagement among students, while also acknowledging the influence of corporations and government in environmental issues. Ultimately, it calls for a moral imperative to act for the planet's future, encouraging collaboration among students, educators, and families.

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Assignment

Underline the unfamiliar words and look up their meanings.


Example:

1. Allotment
Meaning: A small piece of land given to someone to grow plants or vegetables. It refers to a garden or
small farming area at school.
2. Dismiss
Meaning: To reject or ignore something as unimportant or not worth considering.
3. Passionately
Meaning: In a way that shows strong feelings or belief.
4. etc

Small change – big difference?


It has never been more critical to tackle the climate change issue, and yet some would argue that individual
action is meaningless. Some critics would scoff at our Knightsbridge High water bottles, roll their eyes at
our school allotment, and dismiss our move to electric school buses with a wave of their hand. Yet I know
that students, parents, and teachers passionately feel that our small changes can make a big difference to our
planet.

Though there is an issue with the commercialisation of green issues, that doesn’t mean we should give up
entirely. If large corporations want to cash in on recycling and protecting endangered animals to improve
their brand image, it still promotes awareness of these issues. True, the problem comes when individuals buy
from a so-called green company and then think they’ve done enough and don’t need to act any more, but our
community isn’t built of “lazy environmentalists”. What’s lazier than doing nothing at all? Most young
people do care and want to get involved; if 76% of people buy products for the environment, doesn’t that
show eagerness to get involved? Isn’t it better to harness the will of people who want to help but don’t yet
know how to do it efficiently rather than mock them for being part of the capitalist machine?

Schools are the perfect place to begin cultivating the global citizens of tomorrow. Nowhere can collective
action be made more evident than in a school, as we see that each of us individuals form classes, and our
classes form year groups, and year groups form a high school with over 1,000 passionate students.
Knightsbridge could start a campaign to raise awareness of climate issues, such as the impact of meat on the
environment and the dangers of reliance on fossil fuels. After all, we’ve introduced Meat Free Mondays!
Imagine not just our 1,000 current students becoming ambassadors of these issues but the network of people
we will interact with throughout our lives, from future friends we’ve not yet met to workmates at the
successful careers we’re all surely destined for.

Through our Global Citizenship lessons, we have all learned that truly impactful change comes from a
governmental level. Just think of banning CFC chemicals, which were destroying our Ozone, or reducing
acid rain through cutting emissions. Yet we must realise that governments and corporations are also formed
from people – and it could be us as leaders of the future! Not only that, but we also have the power to
influence these entities by lobbying the government or choosing which party we vote for at elections. We
shouldn’t act helpless as though these institutions are entirely out of our influence.
Ultimately, tackling this impending climate disaster will take hard work, but it’s not a luxury to decide
whether to get involved or not: it is our duty, our moral imperative, to save our planet. If not us, then who?
As the younger generation, no one has more to lose than us. Now is not the time to give up hope. Now is the
time to understand that saving this planet will require individual and collective effort – it’s not either/or.

Let’s encourage our prefects, teachers, school leaders and parents to invest not just in their children’s
educations but into the very planet that sustains our ability to breathe clean air, admire cerulean skies, and
accomplish our dreams beyond the present day… together.

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