Hello, my name is Emma, I am 17 years old and I have been a pesco-vegetarian (I don't eat meat any more but still fish) for about 3 years.
I live in the countryside in the North of France near Valenciennes. Since I was a little girl I have been attracted to nature and animals. This environment has always had a calming effect on me and has allowed me to open my eyes to certain things, notably the importance and involvement of living beings on our planet. At my school, with another ambassador, Garance, we carry out different actions such as awareness-raising games or zero waste workshops with the youngest.
Today more than ever, we feel drowned in a situation that is beyond us and we feel powerless in the face of the incomprehension and insensitivity of those whom we consider to be of the same species. Too many people are in denial about the climate emergency. Too many of us still think that global warming is not dangerous and that it will only affect the Earth and not its inhabitants, humans. We are mistaken and are heading straight for a wall where there is no turning back. Humanity is the only species that has managed to destroy itself while dragging an entire planet down with it.
Scientists are trying to warn us, however, that so-called "natural" disasters will become more frequent and deadly, such as forest fires, which will become more numerous and destructive. Some 250 million climate refugees are expected by 2050, how are we going to help all these children, women and men knowing that the poverty level will explode by 2030? Drought, water shortages, rising oceans, famine, extinction of most animals, heat waves, disease, war... this is what awaits us if we do not act now.
So yes, we have planned everything, but we are not ready for such a climate crisis that will spare no one. We need to make as much noise as possible, to take as much action as possible, even if it seems pointless. We may be a drop in the ocean, but we are all part of the ocean. It is together that we can change mentalities for a better future, or even a future at all. I am becoming an ambassador for little citizens for climate to raise awareness among the many people who prefer to close their eyes, to defend the causes that I believe are right and, above all, to act to defend our planet.
Emma