HELLO Village Week 3日目

　6月24日放課後、Green Eventと題し、地球環境と気候変動について考える取り組みが、本校ALTのニコール先生によって行われました。
　私たちの命を支える自然が私たちの手によって壊され、気候変動が起こり、地球全体が急激に変化しています。私たちの生活にも影響が出てきたことは、昨年の猛暑や多数の台風で実感していましたが、改めて、世界中の氷山が崩壊し、森林が壊され、恐ろしいスピードで生態系のバランスが崩れている様子を映像やグラフ、数字で確認することにより、他人事ではない恐怖に襲われました。また、スウェーデンの15歳の少女が気候変動を世界に訴える国連でのスピーチを見て、ここで今日集まり、ニコール先生の講義と思いを熱心に聞き、考える生徒たちもまた、未来にはまだ希望があり、それは地球をよい方向に変えていく希望だと強く感じました。



生徒の感想には以下のようなものがありました

・I was really surprised to see that such a young girl tries to take an action to help the earth. Her presentation touched me and made me realize the importance of each person’s small actions.

・I was so impressed by the young girl. Even though we can do only a small thing, we have to do something right now to protect our earth. The girl told us.

・It is us who can change the world and who should do something to save the nature and our future. Then what do we do next?


これをきっかけに、私たちの母なる地球を守るため、世界のことについてよりよく知り、より考えを深めてくれることを願います。



On June 24th, the third day of HELLO Village week, we had a raising-awareness ‘Green Event’ where our ALT Nicholl gave a talk about climate change and global warming.
　We now face a drastic global change due to our destruction of Mother Earth and the subsequent climate change. We have already known the change has been a big impact on our daily lives, facing heat waves and a number of typhoons last year. In this event, however, we realized again this is not someone else’s business by watching videos that show us glacier destructions and deforestation all over the world, i.e. how quickly our ecosystem has been destroyed.
　We also watched a video where Greta, a 15-year-old Swedish girl, gave a speech at UN Climate Change Conference. This made us strongly believe that students who attended this event and thought so much of this serious problem are also our hope for future restration.
We had a lot of feedbacks from students such as ‘It’s very scary to lose our beautiful planet Earth. I’m inspired by Nicholl’s talk and thinking about what we can and should do for future generations’.