GO GREEN

Assalamualaikum Wr Wb.

First of all, let us thank Allah SWT because of his blessings, we all can gather here on this sunny morning.
Shalawat and prayer, we will say to our greatest prophet Muhammad SAW, his family, his friends and his followers.
Amen.

In this chance, I would like to tell you my speech that has the theme “Go Green!”

Saving Our Planet is a program that was persuading the earthlings so that they would become more concern
and care to their entire environment. It was because the civilization that has been created by the modern people in this
millennium era had affected so many destructive impacts which are really needed to be concerned. These impacts are
causing a new problem, The “Global Warming”. In prediction, that in the last 100 years the temperatures of our planet
has increased by 1’ every year. Meanwhile, the ocean surface has increased for about 1 meter from its former level. The
problem is, modern people not only wanted to increase their prosperity, but also increase their rate of comfortable &
luxurious life.

The situation was very different if we looked back to the last century where the pollution, the industrial garbage,
and the toxin gases were friendlier. Friendlier, because on the 19th Century the technologies improvement and the
consumerism character was not yet significant. Or should we say in this millennium era, the Earth exploitation and
exploration were causing the crucial problem for the earthlings.

How crucial the earth environmental problems we face are for example: The protected animals & plants from
certain species nearly extinct, the plantation sector is causing another problem for environment & ecosystem, forest
logging without reboization, and the impact of mines exploitation that cannot be recycled and maintenance of mine
sector, etc. For us, the youth generation is asking to the politicians and the government especially in Indonesia, “Why do
those problems I mentioned left uncared without any preventive actions?” In fact, our ex-Minister of Environment of
“Orde Baru” era Prof. Dr. Emil Salim has warned and gave us an opinion about will happen on the next 20 years. He said
that the situation will be dangerous if there are no actions to prevent this. We need the proactive steps to maintain the
nature and to rehabilitee what we have disrupted from every department that is connected with the environmental cases
and our community. The example about the impact of human’s greed to the nature is The Lapindo Brantas case. That’s
how the nature shows us their power. There’s not even one human could stand against the power of nature. Until now,
there are no ways to stop the mud throwing and even the poisonous gases that is unwanted by the people.

We as the khalifah of the Earth can only begging, begging, and begging to the nature and destroy the nature.
But when we must give something to the nature or maintain the nature, we feel that we don’t want to! Is the nature
retaliating our doings? When we think deeply over this I guess the answer is “yes”, the nature is angry to us. The
nature’s balance was really disturbed by the mortal’s hands and this behavior has spread widely over the world because
of our hedonism.

The question is “How”? How do we realize collectively for the world’s life so that so that the Earth could become
a better place to live…?

We as the youth generations, the lines of the civilization must be as one to create the vision & mission to help
the government and the people for watching over the reboization program and for the environment reparation that is
caused by the industrialist and the people generally wherever they are. We as the youth generation without exception
must be totally devote our bodies & wills for the sake of healthy world, comfortable world, and for the sake of better place
to live…

I suggest to the government and the people of Indonesia to plant the cambium plants or the pot plants on every
one of the house garden. Everyone, every people must be responsible for every single of plants. Imagine! If every
people have 1 plant in one house, there are 200 millions of plants in Indonesia. This is a very good step to begin our
mission to prevent the Global Warming. Start this on any time now! For my recommendation, the sansivieras (one of the
most beautiful pot plant) is really good to kept because of its great use of anti-pollutant & anti-free radical. Besides, its
beauty will decorate our house so that we won’t feel bad to buy it.

Well, I guess that’s all I can tell. In the end, to show our devotion as the youngish, the lines to the future, we
must be balanced it with faith and taqwa because those are our capitol to realize our wishes so that we can live in perfect
harmony just as Allah SWT has confirmed to us.

Wassalamualaikum Wr Wb.