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Good morning, to the dearest judges, teachers, and all of my friends here. My name is --- from ---. First of all, I would like to thank God, because of His blessings and mercies, we could be here together with a great feelings even I’m kind of sure you are also nervous like I do.

Before we are going to the main topic, let me ask you about some things. Have you ever imagined about how beautiful our live is when there is no pollution in the air, and have a lot of trees growing every inches of the soil? It must be beautiful, isn’t it? Well, that is why I’m standing here, to deliver my speech about our lovely environtment that lately become the main interest.

If we are talking about environment, the first thing that came up in your mind must be the place that we are currently living in. Basically, that’s true. Even the own definition, if you find it through your dictionary, you will get the explaination which is the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded. So, what’s the goods with that? Honestly, there are a lot of benefits that we can get from our environment, but the points are, it will be used for saving the earth’s water, and also protect us from the drought.

Well, you must be wondering why would I ask you some questions in the beginning and telling those benefits when I said that those are the goods from our environments. Therefore, it is not visually looking like it used to be. If we go back to the past, you may see a bunch of tropical forest with a good condition and there are a lot of animals who is trying to survive over there. Meanwhile nowadays, people tend to change those forest into a city look alike which made them have to burn out the trees and make those animal in danger. Pathetic, right? See? If you have a traumatize of ghosts, you might be change your mind since people is more scary than those unseen creatures. They can’t kill you, but people can hurt you, also your surroundings to satisfied their own needs.

Talking about the bad people, our environment could be highly damaged because of them. Rather than looking at the big issues, let’s check ourselves first. Starting from make yourself getting used to throw your trash into the bin, not making any pollution by smoking in the public area, also learn how to planting some plants to create a fresh and cool surroundings. Not that hard, right? I’m sure that all of you are willing to do that in order to make a better and healthy environtment to living on.

Now, let’s moving forward into the big issue. Did you know that Jakarta sets sights on satellite cities for air pollution control? Like we know, beside Jakarta is the most crowded city in Indonesia, it is also has a lot of factories that still having no awareness of opening a factory in the middle of the city when they got a lot of industry’s waste while they are making their own products. Moreover, it becomes more chaotic when the majority of those who live in Jakarta are more preferable into their own personal transportation, rather than taking the public one. It’s not a big deal, I see, but if everyone has the same idea, then there is no one would think to stop it. So that, everything will become so much worse than now. Then what would happen on the next three years if our environment is slowly turning into a mess?

That’s why, like the wise said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” We need to change our mind, and putting our lovely home at the top of priority. If it’s not us, then who else?

So, yeah, I think that is all from me. I apologize if there were a lot of mistakes either it was intentionally or unintentionally. Thank you so much for having me today, and have a great day ahead, everyone!