World Earth Day, Pika’s advice to protect the Planet

Do you know how many liters of water we waste when we brush our teeth without turning off the tap? Six liters per minute. And how much food does each of us waste each year? Thirty kilograms. «A huge waste», as the protagonist child points out together with the youtuber Pika Palindromo in the video made by Save The Children, on the occasion of the World Earth Daywhich is celebrated on April 22.

The good practice suggestions are daily routines: do the separate collection correctly, avoid wasting water and food, recycle whenever possible.

“The climate crisis for the smallest and most vulnerable is translated into a crisis of rights”points out Filippo Ungaro, Save the Children’s communications director. “The impact of climate change, in fact, can prevent girls and boys from accessing food, water, health care and education, putting their lives and their future at great risk”.

Today already one billion girls and boys are at risk from the climate crisis (Unicef ​​data) while those born in 2020 will be exposed to excessive heat waves on average seven times more than their grandparents and will be affected 2.6 times more by drought, 2.8 times more by flooding from rivers, almost 3 times more from the loss of agricultural crops and double the devastating fires.

“The new generations have shown that they are increasingly aware of their role and of the urgency to act to save the planet, through the Fridays for future movement, for example », continues Ungaro. «We have a duty to listen to them and make them participate in decisions that affect their future and we can certainly learn a lot from them. As the little actor in the video also teaches us, it is the simplest gestures to which we adults are not used and which, instead, have entered the daily life of the little ones, that make the difference“.

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