Over the years, humans have learned how to turn wild natural areas into dream lands, how to build roads and buildings to expand their territories and have continued to improve their knowledge and develop new technologies that improves our lives. But as a well-known saying goes, excess of anything good is not good and we have overexploited the natural resources and the earth as a whole. This has given rise to a number of threats that has put a question mark on the existence of our planet.
The increasing industrialization and expansion of factories has led to increased levels of pollution and the purity of atmosphere has also reduced seriously. To worsen the situation, the massive deforestation activities have forced various plant and animal species to extinction disturbing the ecological balance of the earth.
The ever increasing population leads to over exploitation of the earth’s finite resources in order to adapt infinite needs of humans. All these problems add up and disturb the ecosystem and consequently a lot of natural calamities happen in the form of floods, hurricanes, famines, etc.
It is clear that our environmental issues have become so huge that they will get solved only if everyone does their part. There is need for the development of a strategy that saves the earth. We humans should adopt a lifestyle that will help in conserving energy, reducing toxicity, protecting our air and water, creating less trash, reducing deforestation and that does not lead to endangerment of more species.
Adopting such a lifestyle is not a difficult task. It includes simple tasks. When at home turn off unneeded lights even when leaving a room for a short time, unplug seldom used appliances, wash clothes with warm or cold water instead of hot, set your refrigerator temperature at 36 to 38 and your freezer at 0 to 5, turn off lights, computers and other appliances when not in use, and use compact fluorescent light bulbs to save money and energy.
While at your workplace copy and print on both sides of paper, reuse items like envelopes, folders and paper clips, use e-mail instead of paper correspondence, use recycled paper, use a ceramic coffee mug instead of a disposable cup and recycle printer cartridges.
One should also adopt habits like walking or riding your bike instead of driving, whenever possible, joining a carpool or vanpool to get to work, creating a wildlife habitat in your yard, watering grass early in the morning, and putting leaves in a compost heap instead of burning them or throwing them away. These will help us in saving the planet.
The ever increasing population leads to over exploitation of the earth’s finite resources in order to adapt infinite needs of humans. All these problems add up and disturb the ecosystem and consequently a lot of natural calamities happen in the form of floods, hurricanes, famines, etc.
It is clear that our environmental issues have become so huge that they will get solved only if everyone does their part. There is need for the development of a strategy that saves the earth. We humans should adopt a lifestyle that will help in conserving energy, reducing toxicity, protecting our air and water, creating less trash, reducing deforestation and that does not lead to endangerment of more species.
Adopting such a lifestyle is not a difficult task. It includes simple tasks. When at home turn off unneeded lights even when leaving a room for a short time, unplug seldom used appliances, wash clothes with warm or cold water instead of hot, set your refrigerator temperature at 36 to 38 and your freezer at 0 to 5, turn off lights, computers and other appliances when not in use, and use compact fluorescent light bulbs to save money and energy.
While at your workplace copy and print on both sides of paper, reuse items like envelopes, folders and paper clips, use e-mail instead of paper correspondence, use recycled paper, use a ceramic coffee mug instead of a disposable cup and recycle printer cartridges.
One should also adopt habits like walking or riding your bike instead of driving, whenever possible, joining a carpool or vanpool to get to work, creating a wildlife habitat in your yard, watering grass early in the morning, and putting leaves in a compost heap instead of burning them or throwing them away. These will help us in saving the planet.