The great barrier reef is an amazing beautiful which provides many habitats for many fish and other marine creatures and it is one of the seven natural wonders of the world, but... that might not be the case for much longer because the great barrier reef is currently in a terrible state with many different things harming it, for example, coal mining, higher water temperatures, crown-of-thorns starfish and many more reasons.
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The great barrier reef is extremely important to us as it provides much marine life with habitats for them to survive the great barrier reef is very important to the fishing industry as many fish come from there and most of the juvenile fish spend their time there, finally the great barrier reef generates 1.5 billion dollars for Australia every year which is a ton of money and if we were to lose it we would be losing out on a ton of money People can help by donating to foundations that are working to help save it and they can even do the little things, for example, recycling correctly and not littering. I myself will hopefully be setting up some social media accounts to help spread the word on how we can all make a difference
Nicholas Watts, Sacred Heart College Kyneton
I am doing a project called the Make a Difference project. The project is about choosing a topic that is a problem to something. My topic is Re-evaluating Recycling, which is about informing people about how the way Australia is recycling is unsustainable and about how there are easy options to be more sustainable. This issue is important to not just me but to the community and further. It will help decrease the pollution in the areas and help preserve the Earth's resources so we can use the materials for better purposes. If people ignore what is happening the world will become more polluted quickly and will become uncontrollable. Without becoming responsible for recycling the world will become very polluted. I am making a difference to this issue by recycling bottle caps for people with prosthetic hands. At school I am making a collection for Envision Hands a non-for-profit organisation that recycles plastic bottle caps and turns them into prosthetic hands. All you have to do is collect bottle caps and bring them to your closest collection point to help make a difference. I hope you all could take the time to help with this issue.
Samuel Hanna, Sacred Heart College Kyneton
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I wish the millions of people who think like me were wrong, I wish the younger generation and the likes of Greta Thunberg will be proven wrong. I pray the claim that 97% of the world's scientists who say global warming is happening, and that we are the cause, please let that be an exaggeration and that they are wrong. I hope all the experts who sit at home using the World Wide Web, to disseminate data that aligns to their opinions are right. I pray for the day people look back and have a good laugh at the climate change hoax, and us snowflakes who fell for it, that I and so many others will look like fools. But what if I am wrong yet governments start to listen to the scientists and the concerns of so many and start to make an effort to save the planet, what then if I and millions of others are proven wrong, and we have significantly reduced how many animals are slaughtered, we have reduced the rubbish going into our oceans and atmosphere. That would be terrible, financially many will suffer, but also horror of horrors we will be left with a cleaner more compassionate and healthy planet, what a terrible price I will pay for being wrong.