Speech

On my birthday the 20th of June is the Rotary Speech competiton. The Speech competiton is when you write a speech and say it to in front of your class then you get voted, then you read it to the school, then you get voted. Then you go to the finals and read it to sooo many people.
Here is my speech:

How cars can harm the world

By Ronan

Did you know cars can pollute the world?

Cars are inventions that have an exhaust that releases harmful gases and fumes into our atmosphere. I believe we should stop unnecessary driving and only drive when we really need to. Do you know why I think this? Well...

Firstly, cars can pollute the environment. 13% of carbon dioxide comes from vehicles. Cars are disgusting, despicable and dirty things. Carbon dioxide and oxygen is what we humans breathe in. There is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that it is acting like a blanket trapping other heat in and not letting fresh air out. Antarctica is now getting destroyed because of the heat getting trapped in. The heat is like a heat wave that is melting the ice, soon it will be no more than water. The animals living in Antarctica will die and then when you have kids they will not be able to see some of those magnificent creatures. The heat may even travel to the North pole and melt the North pole then, no more Christmas. With all the cars and trucks in the world maybe the whole world will heat up and then humans and animals could die!! So you need to start thinking about the type of car  you drive - is it clean and safe for the world and environment?

Secondly, cars can drip oil. I believe oil is slimy, evil and smelly. The oil could get washed into the environment when it rains. Trees need water right, so the trees might mistakenly suck up the oil thinking it’s water. I would not want to be that tree. The tree may then loose leaves and, and, and, die! Imagine if you were that tree and you drank the oil and you lost your leaves, and you may die. The poor tree did nothing wrong.. it was you!! If we keep dripping oil soon every single tree could die. Then if trees die we won’t have clean oxygen to breathe and then we could even die. Also oil could get into drains. The oil can then flow out into the ocean which can kill the animals and it’s because of you!

Finally, cars make noise pollution. Cars are noisy, right? In the city cars can make loud noises that can hurt animals and humans ears. Some animals may be living in the city. Car horns are nasty, noisy and no good. Those horns seem really bad!! In the city there are traffic jams. Traffic jams make some people frustrated so they beep the horn that puts out a very loud noise. This noise could make an animal suddenly go blagh blagh! Or even worse... din din din. Do you want me to tell you the even worse thing! Ok then the even worse thing is it could die of shock from the loud ear breaking noise. Poor, poor animal. If cars are on ferries with people, the people could get really really impatient so they beep the horn. The horn could scare sea creatures like dolphins into the harbour then, then they will be scared and no longer come into the harbour.

Now after listening to my reasons, do you agree that we should stop driving because cars release fumes, drip oil and make loud noises?  I believe that we should stop driving and only drive when it’s an emergency. So now you must and should start thinking about what your car is doing to our world!