Protecting the environment

Protecting the environment

Dear Peter,

How are you? I haven’t seen you in ages! Five hours, to be exact. Anyway, we were talking about ecology on our last English lesson, and I think you don’t realize how important it is to protect our environment, so I decided to write you a letter. Oh wait, you were there too!

But you probably weren’t paying attention, because you never do. Did I mention you never write your homework either? If our teacher knew about this, you’d be pretty much screwed. Oh, and about those drugs you wanted…

But let’s talk about ecology first. Even a small, meaningless human being like you can do something to help protect and preserve the environment. In fact, there are countless ways how to do it. I’ll name one: Reusing everything. If you’ve ever been to the toilet, and I know you have, you surely know how to use toilet paper. Well, here’s something you probably never noticed: It has two sides. Why use only one? You’re gonna wash your hands anyway. By doing this, you save trees, and thus oxygen.

An average human uses up ten rolls of toilet paper each year. You are way above average, so let’s say you use up fifteen. That’s one tree, which, in a year, could produce enough oxygen for our entire class to breathe for the entire day. These are real statistics, I swear.

You know what happens when you don’t breathe for a day, right? If you don’t, go ahead and try it. If you keep behaving irresponsibly like this, one day, you’re going to kill us all. I hope you’ve learned a lesson.

Frederik