Reflection

My poem is a story of a tsunami. Right now, people know the effects of global warming, yet many of us feel no responsibility to change our actions. “Mirror” is about people knowing but not taking action, and then their actions are reflected back on them, the people around them, and the land around them, in the form of a tsunami. In school, we recently discussed the book “The Killing Sea” by Richard Lewis. In the book, a dangerous tsunami comes and kills many people, leaving devastating wreckage. Although incidents like these cannot be stopped, many of them can be prevented because tsunamis are an effect of climate change. If melting polar ice caps is a trigger that can end in tsunamis, then reducing our carbon footprint could help slow down climate change as a whole. What if every new construction in the world was required to have a wind turbine or solar panel on the roof or have a green roof? Imagine the amount of renewable energy that could be creates! Changing the negative effects climate change is having on the earth is done by one person at a time. If everyone does one thing to reduce climate change, that is over 7.5 billion changes for the better. Our world is reflective of the way we live and the way we treat it. Treat the oceans in the way you want to be treated. Be the catalyst for change.