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Earth is our home and we have to take good care of it. Sadly, our
home is getting sick due to global warming. In order
to save the Earth, a 13-year-old
boy from Germany is doing something very special. This week, meet
the amazing global eco-superhero, Felix Finkbeiner!
Felix is not a scientist. He is not a genius, either. He is just
a normal child like you and I. But he is making a huge difference
in the world. The boy from a small town near Munich is widely acknowledged
as one of the world’s most important environmentalists!
Four years ago, he started an environmental campaign called “Planet for the Planet” as
a school project. “One day, I had to give a presentation at school
about global warming. While searching the Internet, I realized the importance of protecting our planet. That’s
how I started my ‘tree-planting’ campaign,”
Felix explained.
 He
came up with the tree-planting idea while thinking about the ways
to curb global warming. “Global
warming is caused by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Trees capture this carbon dioxide.
Planting many trees can help reduce the harmful gas,” he said.
His presentation about climate change was very impressive and many students
agreed with him. His teacher
even encouraged him to give the
same speech to other classes. Soon, he was speaking in front of many
people. News of Felix’s campaign reached other schools as well.
Within a week, he was receiving calls from students who wanted to
join his Plant for the Planet project. Soon, the children started
planting trees. In April 2008, Felix and his friends managed to plant 50,000 trees!
 Just recently,
Plant for the Planet achieved its target of planting
one million trees in Germany. Now, Felix is spreading his message
around the world. To our surprise, the organization is up and running
in 131 countries! One newspaper recently reported him as one of the
20 most influential “Green Power”
activists in the world, along with Brad Pitt and the Prince of Wales.
“Children should have a voice. For adults, it is an academic question if sea levels rise three centimeters
or seven meters by the end of this century. But for us children,
it is a question of survival,” he said. |
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