Is The Sun Safe In Australia Persuasive Speech

Cooper McGrath reports the importance of being sun safe in Australia.

It’s a familiar scenario. You get home from a day at the beach and notice that your skin has turned bright red. “Oh well” you think to yourself, “It’s not that bad”. However, when the sun sets, you realise that the ‘tiny’ bit of sunburn has transformed into an intense glowing red, morphing you into a giant lobster. Unbeknownst to you, severe sunburns count for 95-99% of all melanomas (the most aggressive and intrusive type of skin cancer) diagnosed in Australia. Ever since Sid Seagull preached the words “Slip, Slop, Slap” to the people of Australia in 1981, the effects of the sun's piercing UV rays have been well known of. However thirty-six years later, we’re still getting roasted by the sun. There's no doubt about it, all Australians should be more sun safe because skin cancer diagnoses are through the roof, Australia's UV index is one of the highest on Earth and Australians naturally tend to spend their time outdoors.

You’d have to be living under a rock to not have heard about skin cancer, which in that case you probably haven't developed it either, as it is caused by UV radiation from the sun damaging your skin cells. The terrifying thing about skin cancer is that the UV radiation you’re exposed to is

But people are not automatically thinking of sun protection when they go and do some gardening, or mow the lawn.” In other words, because Australians don’t associate getting sunburnt while being outside around their house, this is where most are getting sun burnt. To decrease the amount of sunburn we experience, it is important that we take into account every second spent in the sun, rather than just thinking about places which are usually associated with