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Written by: Xie Deqin
2021-06-21 06:00
Last update date: 2021-06-21 06:00
The concept of environmental protection has been called for for many years, but how many people really do it?
12-year-old Liu Yanyi (Lance) initiates a petition in front of the school every Friday to promote the issue of climate change to the community.
His actions successfully attracted the attention of the media and aroused widespread repercussions in society.
You may be surprised that a child has such a firm belief. Perhaps, if you look at his environmental protection path along the way, you will also be infected by his self-confidence, determined to improve the environment side by side and achieve BetterMe and BetterWorld.
Rewriting the future is more than just an impulse
Lance initiated the "Fridays for Future" operation alone, bringing home-made cards to petition in front of the school every Friday before class.
Lance wakes up to the urgency of climate problems earlier than children of the same age, and even adults.
He started the "Fridays for Future" campaign alone since he was 10 years old. He brought his homemade cards to the school to petition before class every Friday, calling on his classmates and parents to pay attention to the climate crisis.
Many people are curious about this enthusiastic kid, and some people sneer at him, questioning that he is pretending at a young age. It would be better to read a few more years and talk about environmental protection.
However, Lance was not discouraged by this. Instead, he insisted on his faith and continued to prove himself with actions.
Since others feel that they lack knowledge, they need to continue to learn and persuade the denier with reason.
He understands that to rewrite the future, one must not only be aggressive, but also need to be patient with negative emotions, learn how to calmly and do every step step by step, so as to have a chance to see the results slowly.
So with his encouragement, his family began to become vegetarians and make their own environmentally friendly clean enzymes; students also brought their own food boxes to respond and joined the ranks of environmental pioneers; the petition successfully attracted media attention, aroused repercussions, and promoted the public to achieve Better Future.
Confidence becomes the greatest force for persistence
Perseverance is exactly Lance's greatest strength towards his goal. He has never lost confidence in the concept of his guardianship. Self-confidence helps him go further and successfully expand his appeal.
He advocates the innovative concept of flexible vegetarians (Flexitarian), and promotes others to take the first step of Go Green with a low-threshold vegetarian style.
Compared to traditional vegan or ovo-lacto-vegetarian, Flexitarian conforms to the trend of autonomy and is easier to implement.
Everyone can make adjustments according to their own vegetarian standards. There is no need to strictly regulate the frequency and amount of meat. This will attract more people to join the vegetarian ranks. Environmental protection can actually be "trend".
In addition, he also observed that most people choose recycling as the first step towards environmental protection, but recycling is a bit different from what the public imagined. Putting plastic in the recycling bin does not stop there.
In fact, only 10% of the garbage in the recycling bin is eligible for recycling. Therefore, reducing plastic pollution is a truly effective environmental protection behavior. Therefore, he must bring environmental protection bags, lunch boxes and cups when he goes out to reduce plastic from the source.
It turns out that only 10% of the garbage in the recycling bin is eligible for recycling, so reducing plastic pollution is a truly effective environmental protection behavior.
It's not environmental protection but people's insurance
Actively using actions to arouse society's attention to the environment, Lance bluntly said that he is not going to be a great man, and the reason behind it is selfishness.
Global warming causes glaciers to melt and raise sea levels. If the earth continues to heat up, Hong Kong may already be facing a flooding crisis by the time Lance goes to university. This is exactly what Lance does not want to see.
He hopes that his actions can fight for the future for this generation and reorganize the earth's ecology that is collapsing, saying with a smile, "It is not environmental protection, it is human protection."
In the future, he hopes to become a green architect and build sustainable buildings, such as the Hong Kong Institute of Higher Education (THEi) in Chai Wan, Zero Carbon World and K11 ATELIER in Quarry Bay, using natural light and large areas of greenery. Regional promotion of ecological benefits, through the promotion of the participation of different stakeholders, working together to practice environmental protection, I believe that self-confidence can rewrite the future.
Like Lance, AXA fully supports the mission of environmental protection. It not only initiates corporate green projects to reduce the risks caused by climate change, but also infects and encourages customers to develop a green life and jointly build a sustainable future.
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