August
11, 2014
I completed a quiz on line, “My foot Print”, and was surprised to
find that we would need 5.63 planet earths to survive living the way that I
currently am using my ecological behaviors. Although I rated low on carbon use,
70.3, compared to the country average of 91.4, I rated high in my food foot
print. My foot prints on how I live; my home rated average to the country yet
my use of goods, and services rated high.
It is interesting to
see how one person can affect our environment. If we think about the effects us
as humans have on the planet we don’t have long before it’s too late for
reversing our effect. The current issues
we are facing today are global warning, ozone depletion, pollution, loss of
natural resource, nuclear problems, loss of biodiversity, energy problems, and
waste management.
The impact on our
environment is at a stage of no return. We can only hope that with new
inventions to curb the damage, and new behaviors to change our effect on the
environment, that we can survive longer.
We hear in the news
of the hillsides that collapse; killing people who chose to live next to
something so beautiful. It is however, those same people that change to
hillsides to meet their own needs of comfort, energy and human perspective of
beauty. The rivers are full of human pollution; discarded medications, human
waste, even fuels taken from other parts of the land that are flushed down the
street sewers.
The ozone that
surrounds our planet which protects us from the suns radiation is slowly
melting away because of our greed to use manmade chemicals. We know that
deodorant sprays are harmful, so why do we still make them, and use them? Our
bodies thrive, and have to have water to survive. Now we’re buying water from a
plastic bottle because the water pumped to your home might now be good for you.
We have no new source of water, it’s the same water we drink that we see fall
from the sky, come into our toilet and rivers.
In the 1970’s we
began realizing that we are being destructive to mother earth; our living room.
Is it too late?
I think we have
slowed the impact of our behaviors, but I think we also have a long ways to go.
None of our four legged relatives that were killed by our footprint well never is
coming back. It’s not too late to save future impacts. We have stronger laws
protecting our environment. We are providing more education of the impact
pollution is having on nature. We have organizations like the bureau of land
management that oversees how we use the land we live on. I hope in the near
future we find alternatives to energy and heal the environment before nature
calls it quit time for humans.
I think more
education, involvement for people, smarter use of nature and less fossil fuel
will help improve our impact on the environment. It scares me to think my
children’s children won’t have the life they deserve, because we didn’t take
care of what the creator gave us.
Mother earth!
Reference
My Foot
Print, retrieved from http://www.myfootprint.org/
Current
Environment Issues (2010) retrieved from http://www.buzzle.com/articles/current-environmental-issues.html
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