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  • Portrait Lubica Leitnerová

    Lubica Leitnerová, 16 years
    Brezno, Slovakia

    Lubica is a student at the Ján Chalupka Gymnasium in Brezno. Her favourite school subjects are Geography, Biology and English.

    • This is the view how it was few years ago – everywhere you look you could see the white cover of winter.
    • The trees used to hang over because of the snow.
    • Nowadays everywhere you look, you can see only naked country without any snow.
    • Now, only thin coat of snow covers the country that is draggled from the all night long rain.
    • While skiing people could relish beauteous scenery of our county.
    • Today you can ski only in the ski resorts and only on a sysntetic snow.
    • In winter the trees used to lie fallow...
    • ...while nowadays the trees are getting to bloom from the end of January.
    • In the past we used to admire the beauty of our mountains...
    • ...today you can see only sad view of the forest thined down by the hurricane in 2004.
    • The river Hron after temperature rising in January. Gigantic floes cuses floyages aroung Slovakia.
    • The river Hron after temperature rising in January. Gigantic floes cuses floyages aroung Slovakia.

    I enjoy venturing out into nature, skiing or hiking, and have noticed that changes occur more frequently than in the past. I am dedicated to working on climate change projects becauce it is the most important challenge we face in the 21th century.

    The changes in nature reveal themselves to us in the trivial every day activies that are affected. When I can't go skiing in winter because there is less and less snow or if I get burnt more quickly in summer while sunbathing these are small signs of the large scale change that is happening.  We must each of us acknowledge that this change is happening and then take action as individuals. Hopefully it is not late.


     

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