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THE YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR A climate change story -Part One - By Tristan Best
There once lived a girl called Lucy. Lucy’s full of dreams and ideas, dreams so big you couldn’t even begin to imagine them. She thought of one day becoming the biggest toy maker in the world! Lucy IS smart, she loves science, technology and all the rest. She would wake up and go to school just like you, with her two brothers. She lived a calm, adequate life. Her mum’s a baker and her father a factory operative. They lived in a quiet town, with not too much at all going on. One day, after school, she began to play with her brothers, as she normally would, but unfortunately, and fortunately today would be the day she had a huge breakthrough, literally. She had managed to break her favourite toy! OH NO! This wasn’t good as she had to wait to get a new one! When her favourite plastic toy had been
broken, she couldn’t afford to get a new one until her parents got paid. She thought, where is my toy going to go? Surely not straight into the bin? Unfortunately, it was the only place it could go, so at that point, she realised, this very toy; that she loved so much. Would go on to contribute towards the ongoing problem that is GLOBAL WARMING!
up in the week, she had to display her incredible ideology behind the plan. “Somebody would agree, somebody will help me with my goals”, she said. So that very night, she got her diary and with her pencils, she doodled and detailed a plan. She knew she would have to find a way to make toys for both boys and girls too!
So, she said,” What if I could make toys, that would help save the environment, what if there is a different compound plastic like material that we could use to make our toys, and other nonenvironmentally friendly products!”.
So, she waited, and waited, and finally she had the main ingredient. “Everyone loves little building bricks!”. Well, what if she could make a similar product, but better!
She knew this would decrease the majority’s footprint; as the world’s population (being children) stands at approximately; 27%, estimated to be 1.9 billion kids on earth by 2050, which will be 20%! Knowing these statistics, she had to find a way. A science fair was coming
She had a good think about how she would make it appealing to her classmates, and obviously she did what she could, a large detailed, layered drawing with a long caption pulling the diagrams together. She was ready! Now all she could do was wait, and think. Lucy had never been so anxious and excited at the same time.
