Through the Eyes of a Child...What is Sustainability?

Written word-for-word through the eyes of a child, their views on what sustainability is and why it matters.

Sustainable is when you only take what you need and save some resources for the future generations. If we didn’t keep our Earth sustainable it would be a pretty awful place to live, and we wouldn’t survive.

If we don’t look after water, the water would have rubbish and poisoning in it and you could no longer drink it. Water is good for everything, like so the plants need to drink water and sea creatures live in water. If we affect water, we affect everything.

Fossil Fuels are very important. They are found deep, deep underground. They take thousands of years to form, if we use them all now there would be no fuels for the future. We use fossil fuels all of the time, petrol is a fossil fuel and electricity is made by fossil fuels, and nearly everything we have is controlled by electricity. (You can use solar, use rechargeable batteries and run your car on batteries).

Recycling is very important to do! If we never recycled it would smell and massive blocks of land would have to be cleared for land fill. Recycling is also a very important thing because, if we reuse old wood, we’re saving a lot of trees that gives us oxygen.

Pollution is a very bad thing. Pollution is a poisonous gas that is a harm to the environment and the ozone layer . The ozone layer is what gives our Earth the right living temperature. Pollution can come from anywhere if we’re not careful. It comes from cars, trucks, factories, chimneys and other things that leave gas behind it. Pollution creates holes in the ozone layer which makes it really hard to live. If we get holes in the ozone layer it lets the suns light in more and becomes hot, hard to breathe and live. So that is why it is important to keep our Earth sustainable.

10-year-old Eva Aroha x