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BBC World Class is working with Atlantic Rising to hear from young people living around the Atlantic Coast.

It's the turn of students at Marina International School in Bakau, Gambia to share their thoughts.

I think global warming will affect us drastically in the future. The temperature is already 35c on average and it will get worse. The heat is too intense and animals might lose their natural habitats.

We have the responsibility to look after the natural environment. If we don’t who is going to? It’s our world, we’re in charge and we should take care of it.

Some people in Gambia can’t afford to look after the natural environment. The poor have to spend each day figuring out how they’re going to feed themselves. If they have kids they have to figure out how they’re going to feed them. They don’t have time to think about the environment.

It’s turning really hot now. Most of the countries around us are having floods, for example Guinea Bissau and Senegal, because they have flat lands and when it rains the water gets to their houses and stuff. In the future if we don’t take action it will destroy lots of houses, because when it rains water gets into people’s houses and sometimes they collapse.

I live near the sea in Bakau. There are a lot of trees. There’s a river and a swamp. Fishermen make the area quite dirty and we cannot swim in that zone of the beach.

The weather is very hot here in Gambia. When it rains, it rains a lot. At night it is a bit cold.

It’s difficult to notice if the weather is changing because it is hot all the time. We can see in other countries that the weather is getting hotter. Maybe it will affect Europe, because the ice caps are breaking and there are so many tornadoes going into different countries.

It is the responsibility of each national government and the UN. They should make rules – less cars in the streets, limiting cars by size of family.

via bbc.co.uk

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