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Dear President Obama,

Hello. My name is Gayathri Vijayakumar. I am an 11 year old girl at Herbert Hoover Middle school in Edison, NJ. I have always wondered if any person with high authority would take action on saving the environment. It may seem economy is more important but both are equal inconveniences.

Economy and the environment are equal inconveniences because both can affect our surroundings our health care and more. For example, if economy is bad, prices will skyrocket and sometimes are hard to purchase. The reason I say this is if it becomes hard to buy products people won’t buy them. Then stores lose money and workers get less pay which leads to problems for loans or mortgage or taxes. Soon enough, people will become poor and turn up as beggars or scavenge for simple, paid jobs. If the environment is bad, flooded with gases from factories, oil filling the natural streams, and litter in our ocean it is like living in a garbage can and all of our precious natural, Mother Nature items like the sea and oxygen will be dirty and trashed. One day in the future it all could be gone, possibly. The sweet water that used to fall years ago when the Native Americans were here is gone. All the gases from factories have polluted the air which polluted the water in the clouds so the rain falling nowadays is what scientists call “acid rain”. One big problem is the tree cutting. Houses are important but why use wood. After all, wood does surround us. Well, not anymore, at the rate the trees are being cut, the trees may all be gone. But there is a law that states to plant two trees for one cut tree. I bet many bite more than they can chew and only replant some, not the required amount. It may not be that hard to find a substitute for wood. What if there isn’t a substitute? If there isn’t any try recycling paper and other objects made of wood. If we can’t help stop cutting trees, we can recycle electronic products instead of discarding broken down computers and radios and other electronics. We can send them to special recycling centers. For metals, we can recycle aluminum cans and other recyclable metals. We also can do much more.

One group of people that this might affect is the lifesyle of many Americans. It will affect them because some will think why they should take part because the environment is no problem to them. Others are just lazy to look out for plastics. Some would think it won't matter if one person doesn't help to make a difference- but it does! Every person recycling can help us reuse and save objects worth recycling.

There are many steps to help prevent the environment from becoming worse. Some steps are listed below.

One example is to stop throwing garbage from landfills into the ocean so innocent animals don’t die. To prevent landfills from overflowing, you could…

· Reuse plastic bags · Don’t waste anything unless you have to ·  Use both sides of paper · And much, much more

I think that we shouldn’t kill turtles or fish or any sea dweller on accident or on purpose. For one, we all should know only plastic numbers 1&2 are recyclable. So please watch out for these plastic numbers.

Also, we can stop global warming with simple steps like… · Taking public transportation · Don’t waste electrical equipment

These reasons can provide help to stopping global warming. Since global warming heats up the earth, natural disasters such as floods and droughts occur. Global warming is a worldwide problem. Everyone should take part in stopping it step by step.

Please help save the environment. If you don’t it could affect all of us.

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