Kids and Adults Draw What the Future Forests Will Look Like | Kwentong Kalikasan
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a senyor sa Hawaii.
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So, I am an artist
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from Bukidnon, Talandig.
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We're here para mag-draw.
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I am Sherian Lexus Ilo,
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and I am 8 years old.
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Hello, I am Dexter
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from Xavier Engineering.
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Jacob, age 9 turning 10.
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Mark, 41 years old.
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And I am a hydrologist.
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We're studying water.
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Do you like water?
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I am Luke and I am 8 years old.
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My name is Val, I am 27 years old.
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And I wish I were 8 years old as well.
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I'm asking you to draw
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what you think forests will look like in the future.
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Okay, what are you thinking?
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What's your plan?
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How are you going to draw this?
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I'm going to draw the planet.
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And it's going to be lush.
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I think of either a good future
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so I'm going to make one side bad
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and one side good
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and divide them in half.
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I always would like to be
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on the bright side of things
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because what's the use of thinking about living
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when you think about a bleak future?
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Do you think trees are important?
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Because they filter the air we breathe.
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They also serve as a habitat for animals
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which they also live in.
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When I was younger,
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I thought trees are really just for construction
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because I'm doing engineering
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and it's for just people to really use it up.
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And then waste it.
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But then I realized that
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if there are no trees,
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like living trees,
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then the rain would just come down easily
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and that's why we have floods.
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If you start cutting trees now,
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then maybe it will turn flooding
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and the forest will almost be like
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almost no more trees.
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Can I have yellow?
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And I'll give you green ahead.
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Why is it your favorite color?
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Because it lights up.
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The light lights up and then I like it.
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Do you know about the color green?
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What is the meaning?
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Color green is healing.
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Like when I was young,
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Samo talandig is usually equine,
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meaning red, black, and white.
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So each color in the equine representation.
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Red is courage, brave, and love.
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And white is purity and peace also.
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How many trees have you planted in your life?
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Before you turn 20 years old,
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how many trees do you want to plant?
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Okay, I'll have the same goal as you.
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Jacob, do you imagine the future without trees?
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I'm thinking of a world,
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a barren wasteland without trees.
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A barren wasteland full of fire.
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I think everyone, especially the young,
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I've noticed that they have this thinking
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of the worst case scenario.
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But I always believe that
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as long as good people exist in this world,
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there's always a better future.
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One of my classmates said that
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even though they would cut down trees for the space
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and to make the roads,
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but they would still plant more trees after.
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I think some countries do it
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or call it a sustainable forest program.
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Well, because trees are also very useful
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for human development,
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but we have to make sure that we replenish it.
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We do not deplete the footprint of trees, for example.
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My hope is that this doesn't get lost when they grow.
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I'll drive up more trees
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because it makes the air cleaner
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and animals can still live in their habitat.
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And I like animals.
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Would you rather have more malls or more trees?
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Maybe more trees.
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Why trees than malls?
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So that I will not smell black smoke.
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Two-thirds of our breath,
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that's coming from the ocean.
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And then one-third of our breath
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is coming from the forests.
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So imagine if you remove and cut all the forests,
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do you think there's a lot of trees left?
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Or only a few left?
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I think it's still many, but not so much.
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Because, of course, people are cutting trees.
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Do you want to have a forest?
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You can live here.
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You don't have to buy a house.
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Yeah, I like the cold pool.
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It's connected to...
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Actually, the forest is...
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It's good for keeping fresh water.
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Sometimes, when it's dry,
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you can put it in the river.
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If we get rid of all the trees,
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we cannot breathe that well.
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So we should save the trees from getting cut down.
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If there's no liquor, no water,
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There's no one left.
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It's good to have hope.
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Since Gab is a city boy,
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he's aware of the consequences.
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If the forest disappears,
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it impacts the people.
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Okay, last one minute.
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Before you show our audience your drawing.
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Show your drawing.
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Can you tell us about your drawing?
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What did you draw?
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And why did you draw that?
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I drew this because
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If you start planting trees now,
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you can plant more trees.
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If you cut more trees,
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And if you make more factories,
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there will be bad smoke coming
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if you smell their environment.
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What is the kind of future you want?
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That's all to explain.
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That's all to explain.
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Everything is burning and incinerating
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in a world where endless pain is happening.
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And in the good side, everyone's happy.
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Where do you think we are right now?
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Slightly to the bad side.
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Because factories, ozone,
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and the thick ozone layer,
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but it's not that thick.
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I just drew two sides
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because one is maybe people will be
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already cutting trees
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and a lot of trees will be cut down.
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And there's only a very few trees
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that are remaining.
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Also, I drew the other side
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because I also hope that people
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will be planting trees
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and there's plenty more trees
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that are still there
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for a lot more generations.
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There's a lot of mountains
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I drew a lot of birds in the sky
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and all of these trees.
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If they cut all of these trees,
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it will put nature into danger
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and it will cause a lot of floods.
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And also in the future,
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I think they will only have
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like zero trees left.
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What I like is really
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the systems approach.
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The good and the bad.
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So all elements are there
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and it kind of gives you
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some impression that this is what
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also young people think nowadays.
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Looking at the bad and the good,
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there's that desire to always
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have a good future.
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There are young people like Luke here
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who know that there are decisions
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that need to be made.
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Bad choices result to
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bad things for us.
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And good choices result to
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good things for us.
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I like it perfectly
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because I have the same idea.
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I really thought of doing something
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like if we continue to cut trees
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and if there's nothing left,
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we build everything there.
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So when it rains,
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then the water will just rush down
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and many will be running.
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Even there's some landslides here.
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But if we continue to plant trees
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so like when it rains,
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there's fewer water here
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because when there are trees,
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it allows water to actually
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go down the ground
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and we can actually drink the water
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And the houses will be safe.
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So this is the typical forest scene.
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Forest is not really the tree,
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but it's the ecosystem,
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fossil trees and other living creatures,
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living stuff in the forest.
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And usually somewhere here,
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you can see it's green.
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And when you see a mountain,
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you should be alarmed
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if this light green increases
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or the light green goes up
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because it means some of the forests
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are being cut, being logged.
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And so what we want is
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that this green will go down,
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cover some of these light greens here.
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Yeah, plant the trees.
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Yeah, so you can plant the trees.
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Is there a rock? The gray?
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Yeah, and it's worrisome
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if you see some brown and gray
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going up because that means
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vegetation is losing.
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Yeah, and rocks and dirt
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Yeah, when they start to appear,
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that means all the plants are removed.
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I like this and that.
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I drew the trees.
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Yeah, in the forest.
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The trees are growing in the forest.
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So that's why I put a lot of colors
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Because like what you said,
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if the trees are cut in the future
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and there's only one or two left,
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so people will go around the pond
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and the water source
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since you can't reach the water source.
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But nature is self-healing
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which is what the elements are using.
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That's why I drew the water spirit here.
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I want you to focus on this.
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Many adults are already doing this.
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But there are more young people
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like you who are doing this.
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So I want you to focus on that.
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Can you do that, Kaya?
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Forest is very important.
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But it's quite difficult to see
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the importance of forest.
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We cannot see our connection with the forest.
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And at least we see the connection.
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We cannot really have a good future.
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Like what Jacob said,
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it's always good to have a good future.
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And we can start with
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maybe taking care of the forest.
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It's not really like we have to go to the forest
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We all can contribute in our own way.
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We just have to find ways to contribute
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and understand our connection with the forest.
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First, I think we need to listen to children.
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We lost that kind of idealism,
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that purity of heart
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when we are so overwhelmed with a lot of work
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and a lot of pressure
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from the practical side of life.
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And that's so sad.
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So listening to children
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is something we must revisit urgently.
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And clearly, if we listen to them,
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these are the things that we actually ought to do.
