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From the Roots of Change (Audrey S.)
My name is Audrey, I’ve been playing violin for a long time, and I like penguins. I am in seventh grade this year at the Meadowbrook School of Weston. I took a picture of a deciduous tree that still had leaves on it covered in snow. I focused on the issue of climate change. As the world is gradually getting warmer, the water levels are rising, and if all the ice melted, the water levels would rise by 200 feet, changing the coastline, and rendering many people homeless. This winter, over two dozen people in a swath of land from North Carolina to New York died because of the extreme cold. The climate changes also affect wildlife and living things in nature, with the winter cold stunning over 100 sea turtles in Florida. Temperatures are also rising during warmer seasons, with the summer of 2016 setting near-record heat in the U.S., and especially in the Northeast, which is where I live. Statistics show that over the past century, the average temperature of the Earth has increased by 1.33ºF, and 0.72ºF of that has occured since 1979. It is not necessarily the small things that affect the change in climate, but when they are all added up, that is what is affecting the world. I took the picture from underneath the branches, facing upwards, to show that if we look at the big picture we can see the effect humans are having on the world. I focused on the leaves of fall with a clump of snow on them, showing how the fluctuations in weather left the most cyclic things, like trees, unprepared. The picture is mostly blurred out, focusing on only one small bits, making the viewer feel the wrongness of it. I like how my photo captures the starkness of the difference between the colors of the tree and the snow. I can take a step to help this cause by trying to reduce my carbon footprint and helping others do that as well. Doing things like carpooling, avoiding traffic, which adds to the CO2 levels, and not traveling everywhere by car can help. Even doing smaller things like turning off lights, recycling, and eating organic foods can help.
From the Roots of Change (Audrey S.)
My name is Audrey, I’ve been playing violin for a long time, and I like penguins. I am in seventh grade this year at the Meadowbrook School of Weston. I took a picture of a deciduous tree that still had leaves on it covered in snow. I focused on the issue of climate change. As the world is gradually getting warmer, the water levels are rising, and if all the ice melted, the water levels would rise by 200 feet, changing the coastline, and rendering many people homeless. This winter, over two dozen people in a swath of land from North Carolina to New York died because of the extreme cold. The climate changes also affect wildlife and living things in nature, with the winter cold stunning over 100 sea turtles in Florida. Temperatures are also rising during warmer seasons, with the summer of 2016 setting near-record heat in the U.S., and especially in the Northeast, which is where I live. Statistics show that over the past century, the average temperature of the Earth has increased by 1.33ºF, and 0.72ºF of that has occured since 1979. It is not necessarily the small things that affect the change in climate, but when they are all added up, that is what is affecting the world. I took the picture from underneath the branches, facing upwards, to show that if we look at the big picture we can see the effect humans are having on the world. I focused on the leaves of fall with a clump of snow on them, showing how the fluctuations in weather left the most cyclic things, like trees, unprepared. The picture is mostly blurred out, focusing on only one small bits, making the viewer feel the wrongness of it. I like how my photo captures the starkness of the difference between the colors of the tree and the snow. I can take a step to help this cause by trying to reduce my carbon footprint and helping others do that as well. Doing things like carpooling, avoiding traffic, which adds to the CO2 levels, and not traveling everywhere by car can help. Even doing smaller things like turning off lights, recycling, and eating organic foods can help.