MARIA AND MYRTO GREECE ARSAKEIO

In fact that idea worked out. thousands of people donated money to them in order to add more trees, make the forests thicker and save the animals as well as their natural habitat. They managed to find volunteers that could help them pick up the rubbish and make the forests cleaner in general. they tried contacting the government one more time but they didn’t respond. That didn’t make them lose their motivation and give up though. they kept on trying in order to save the forests. SUDDENLY, THE PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCED that a mall was going to be built on their favorite forest. They were devastated. They would spent hours searching for a solution to this problem.

Maria and Myrto From Greece

The time was very limited, they could not lose their dream and mission. So they met the CEO of the company and told him the problems. As they expected, the boss did nothing because he was very interested in money. The last possibility that they had was to collect a lot of signatures to stop the works. Initially no one followed their idea, but they had just started and didn’t know what was going to happen. In fact the president of an environmental association noticed them for their post. It was a great stroke of luck because the association had a lot of members, who have added their signatures. This agency had experience in the field of the environment and they knew that to get the boss to take action they had to prove that the construction would be economically inconvenient. To do this they had to explain to him that the European Union would soon set up heavy taxes for those who

would occupy green spaces in cities, so he had to move his investment to another place. If they had been good, they could also direct him to some green investment: such as a wind farm to generate clean energy, much more promising from an economic point of view in the long term and better for the environment. They eventually decided to avoid talking directly to the boss and something big came up in their mind: setting up a meeting with the prime minister himself. They knew it would have been a really tough thing to accomplish, but due to their expertise and their acquaintances they could have even achieved their goal. Everyone knew that the plan could have been realized, so they started to work hard and think about a good strategy to put to use. Thanks to the connections of the

executives of the agency, the guys managed to get a private meeting with the prime minister. The meeting was set at 5 pm in a luxurious 5-stars hotel in London, the Savoy Hotel. The young people , accompanied by some representatives of the agency, arrived at the hotel a few minutes early: in those few minutes they reviewed the speech prepared during the trip. The minister arrived a few minutes after 5pm: he entered the hotel, greeted the young people and walked with them to a hotel room. The participants in the meeting took their seats and the speech began: Cosmina explained the various reasons why nature should not be changed, each of these reasons were analyzed by one 1 of the 4 boys. The speech succeeded in changing the Prime Minister's mind, but the problems were not yet over...

Antonio, Giovanni, Giacinto and Gabriele from Italy

BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL CAN ONLY ACT IN HIS NATIONAL TERRITORY. GIVING YES A BIG HAND, BUT NOT BIG ENOUGH TO STOP DEFORESTATION WORLDWIDE. THE MAIN CAUSE WERE THE HUNDREDS OF COMPANIES THAT, WITH DEFORESTATION, INCREASED INCREASINGLY, INCREASING THEIR HORIZONS. Papery industry is an example. It is AN AMERICAN COMPANY SPECIALIZED IN MAKING PAPER USED IN ALL EVERYDAY SECTORS. FOUNDED BY MICHAEL JONSON, TODAY IT IS IN SECOND PLACE IN THE WORLD IN ANNUAL TURNOVER . IT WAS THE FIRST TO EXPRESS IT AFTER THE MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL WITH ALL THE OTHER WORLD HEADS. AND IT WAS RIGHT TO PUT AGAINST THE INITIATIVE TAKEN BY JOE, IRIS, GIUSEPPE, COSMINA AND OLGA .

WHAT SHOULD THEY HAVE TO DO SO? GIVE UP TO THE FACT THAT FOR ECONOMIC INTERESTS THE WORLD POWERS WERE MONOPOLIZING A GOOD THAT PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN MAINTAINING THE BALANCES OF THE ECOSYSTEM? HOW WERE THE "IMPORTANT PEOPLE" TO BE SO MUCH THAT THEY DON' T UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WERE HURTING THEIR OWN, THEIR CHILDREN, THE FUTURE GENERATIONS? THE SOLUTION WAS ONLY ONE. they COULD NOT RELY ON THE COUNTRY'S LEADERS, BUT TRY TO MAKE PEOPLE MORE AWARE. FORESTS ARE NOT DISAPPEARING MYSTERIOUSLY - VAST AREAS CONTINUE TO BE CLEARED FOR SOY, BEEF, PALM OIL , AND OTHER GLOBALLY TRADED COMMODITIES. SO THEY DECIDED TO STUDY A LOT AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE REAL CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION WERE AND HOW THEY COULD DO SOMETHING IN THEIR LITTLE ONE.

THEY LEARNED A LOT OF THINGS, AND DECIDED TO MOVE IN ITALY, THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND ROMANIA TO RAISE OTHERS AWARENESS ABOUT HOW VITAL TREES ARE TO US. HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY RECOMMENDED - BUT ABOVE ALL THEY GIVEN AN EXAMPLE - OTHERS TO DO: PLANT A THREE WHERE YOU CAN, DON' T USE PALM OIL OR PRODUCTS WITH PALM OIL , BUY RECYCLED PRODUCTS AND THEN RECYCLE THEM AGAIN, BUY ONLY WHAT YOU WILL USE, SUPPORT THE PRODUCTS OF COMPANIES THAT ARE COMMITTED TO REDUCING DEFORESTATION. They underlined ONE THING ABOVE ALL: IT IS THE CONSUMERS WHO MAKE THE RULES OF THE MARKET. IT'S NOT TRUE THAT WE DON' T HAVE POWER OVER WHAT MULTINATIONALS DO! WE ARE NOT UNARMED! MORE AND MORE PEOPLE BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND WHEN THEY WERE DAMAGING UNCONSCIOUSLY, Not only THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT ALSO TO THEMSELVES, AND ALTHOUGH THERE WOULD BE A LOT ROAD TO DO THAT WAS DEFINITELY THE FIRST STEP TO SAFEGUARD THE FORESTS PRESENT ON OUR LAND: CONSCIOUSNESS AND, ABOVE ALL , SENSITIVITY.

MARIA ROSARIA, ANDREA, BARTOLOMEO, MATTIA AND VALERIO FROM ITALY

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