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=Title of Speech= P.O.O.P.

=Text of Speech=

 On this fine somewhat sunny morning, I am here to talk to you all about POOP; People Obstructing Our Planet. Yeah I have a problem with POOP. Even my spell check has a problem with it. This is a really generalized topic, but I know that the slightest of thoughts regarding this do not really go through the minds of our new generation of teens and children. My cousin a 6th grade student cares about his schooling career to the extent in which he gets to keep his cell phone and is allowed to play his video games if his grades stay up. So, his motive in school: to do well and be rewarded with video games. At this very moment as I write this speech he is playing Call of Duty in my living room. But the point is that these young children barely even take a thought about school, why would they even take a thought to care about our planet. I myself am quite ignorant regarding how much our planet has gone to shits. How many of you even know about the nationally recognized day ARD? Honestly I didn’t even know about this day either. Well it’s America Recycles Day, a day dedicated to encouraging Americans to recycle and buy recycled products. Our country and its people are always striving to achieve greatness and progress, but how are we going to do that, if we can’t even differentiate a trash can from a recycle bin? Foothill has many recycle bins around campus, but I constantly see trash thrown into these recycle bins, and vice versa. This taints the recycled products and hampers the recycling process. Even though we have a pretty good system in our school, we don’t even take the responsibility to carry out its purpose. And think about the many schools like Buena which have trash everywhere on campus and barely any recycle bins. Our country is slowly transforming into one enormous landfill.

Not only is our country becoming trash, it is emerging into a big ocean. How many of us think about global warming as a major issue in our future? I’m sure most of us are mainly thinking about which colleges we’ll get accepted into. But that partly validates my point; practically none of us. We all are destroying our ozone layer by burning up fossil fuels and emitting great amounts of carbon dioxide. Climate change will ultimately lead to our downfall if this controversy is not resolved. Global warming is not the only issue; the harmful gasses being emitted from automobiles and factories are impeding the natural air we breathe in as well. There just isn’t enough room in our atmosphere for man-made carbon emissions, because Mother Nature allowed just enough room for the process of cellular respiration and the natural process of flatulence, composed of about 10-30% carbon dioxide. The other 70-90% could be composed of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and methane gas. And a fun fact is that the hydrogen and methane components of the more technical term flatus, is the chemical components that are flammable in farts. But anyways, we all know that fart leaves a pretty horrible smell after its emission. And imagine how horrible the outcome would be if unnatural carbon emissions continue, well I believe it would be much worse than our fart.

Our water is also becoming contaminated. The pipes that transport our water to our homes are placed side by side with sewage pipes. Since these pipes are quite old and leaky, the sewage water is merging with our water pipes. This sounds very nasty but it is the truth, poop is in our tap water; there’s nothing much we can do about this, but to install a purifying system in our homes because really it was the genius who designed this piping system. But there are ways in which we can take initiative to save our oceans. Many of us probably know of the Texaco oil incident in Ecuador. I know this is not in America but the oil company Texaco is owned by Chevron which is an American oil company. Thus, Americans are contaminating the rivers of Ecuador, therefore contaminating the ocean, and therefore contaminating our America. The truth is that all our water is shared throughout the world carried out by a little process known as evaporation and precipitation.

Our planet is really suffocating by the actions of humanity. Staining the land, air, and water we live in. In the America I live in, as an adult I want to see less POOP.

=Cite Your Sources= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_in_the_United_States http://worldwildlife.org/threats/climate-change http://douglassreport.com/2012/10/08/how-your-drinking-water-can-make-you-violently-ill/ http://chemistry.about.com/od/medicalhealth/f/What-Is-The-Chemical-Composition-Of-Farts.htm