Junior high and high school students march for demonstration of warming countermeasures “can't play baseball because it is hot” Hamamatsu Dec. 7 at 20:14

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In Spain, where an international conference on global warming countermeasures, “COP25” is held, a large-scale demonstration was held mainly by young people. In Japan, 400 junior and senior high school students marched in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture.

About 400 students from Hamamatsu Kaiseikan Junior and Senior High School in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, marched for global warming countermeasures.

On the afternoon of the 6th, I walked about 2 kilometers over an hour in the center of Hamamatsu, saying “Protect the earth” and “Protect the future”. Many students from the athletic club participated in the march and put up a placard stating that it was too hot to play baseball.

Yuki Nishikawa, who is the captain of the baseball club, who participated with all the members, said, “As the warming goes, it will become difficult to play baseball as before, so I thought it was a familiar issue. I want to tell this problem to as many people as possible. "

The students of this school did a march in September and encouraged the school and Hamamatsu City to introduce renewable energy.

In response to students' complaints, the school plans to install solar panels on the roof of the newly constructed gymnasium to cover all electricity with renewable energy.

Principal Chihiro Takahashi said, “I heard the voices of the students and made me think that global warming is a responsibility of our adults.

The background of the participation was due to the heat wave ...

It is said that the reason why the students of the athletic club participated in the march for global warming countermeasures is that they are experiencing the effects of the summer heat due to the fact that the game is restricted and the practice time is shortened .

Of these, the track and field club of junior high school lost the qualifying that was scheduled for sprints and relays at the summer district competition last year. Because the maximum temperature of the day was expected to exceed 30 degrees, in order to prevent heat stroke, we suddenly decided to rank in the time of one race in all competitions.

However, it is said that the game tends to be restricted, such as the fact that there are no qualifying in some competitions, and there is a rule that only one event can be entered per player.

A girl student who participated in the tournament on a sprint run said, “On a hot day, just waiting for your turn will deprive you of your physical strength. It is motivated to win the qualifying and move to the final, but that goal will disappear I was frustrated. "

In practice, we are trying and taking measures against the heat of summer, and in the track and field section, we put water in the children's pool and let the students bathe in between exercises.

Chihiro Hamada, the director of the track and field club, said, “I feel the heat is completely different in the last few years. Even if an adult is outside, there is a risk of getting heat stroke. I need it. "

Also, high school baseball clubs have experienced a drastic reduction in summer practice. For example, during summer vacation, practice starts around 7am, avoiding heat, and often ends before noon.

On the other hand, in winter, training was done to build strength indoors when the temperature was low, but in the last few years there were many relatively warm days, and regular practice outside increased. It means that physical strength is affected.

“Since the amount of summer practice has been overwhelmingly reduced over the past few years, it ’s warm in the winter and you will practice using the ball outside. I fell down and became a heat stroke and dehydration at the summer tournament, so I would like to do training firmly this winter. '' .