Environmental Assessment Of The Human Race

The growing disconnect between modern civilization and nature has reshaped our roles and responsibilities to the natural world. Our relationship with our planet continues to transform. In order to preserve the natural world we must recognize what role it plays in our existence and re-evaluate our ethics towards our ecosystems. Like all living things, we are engineered to survive, and if our environment is slowly becoming inhospitable, then our efforts to reverse our negative impact should be second nature. However, an extreme disconnect between humans and the natural world has resulted in widespread dissociation with factors such as global-warming, diminishing resources, and pollution. This dissociation with the state of our planet, in part, has to do with the fact that these issues do not feel immediately threatening to a large percentage of the population. Recent efforts, however; have begun a movement to reverse our negative impact and promote a more environmentally sustainable way of life. Now, more than ever, we must realize how are species has negatively impacted the natural world and begin to modify our way of life to preserve the environment, the life it supports, and its breadth of virtues.

ou can only have so much good before it is all gone. Resource depletion is the biggest environmental issues known to man. As humans we’re using what we have to live, but we use more than we give out. Through science, we’re finally starting to understand that people are using too much of the resources and altering the face of the earth. If we’re not careful, these problems can’t be fixed.

Every day when looking out a window, people see a beautiful earth. The earth is intriguing, but hinges on a delicate balance. Many natural resources keep the grass green and the sky blue. Man has made quite an impression on our world, and has transformed the earth's resources into tools to make life easy. However, mans' manipulation on earth has become detrimental to the health of our planet and the safety of mankind. Through the use and production of resources such as oil and energy, man is gradually poisoning the earth. Pollution has become such a dilemma in society; there is no real control or a feasible solution to society's recklessness. Without complete change, our system will collapse. The earth will eventually retaliate with disaster, or corporate control of our economy will cause hysteria and depression. Evaluation of the consequences and repercussion of worldwide pollution, may give people a better idea of what the future holds.

Did you know that there are 13 species of animals who we may have to say goodbye to in 2015, or an estimated 2.2 billion tons of waste is yearly dumped into oceans? There is no need to research the litany of environmental changes; news such as global warming, air pollution, or resource scarcity that choke environmental problems to appear daily on TV screens and in newspapers. Even with these particularly cautions, many of us are still facing environmental catastrophes with overly optimistic attitudes, ignoring how serious the matter is. This form of the unrealistic expectation is similar to the blind development in our technological society that engenders a series of environmental and economic problems. Paul Ehrlich, [1] a Stanford University

The United Nations environment panel recently warned that the consumption of resources will triple in 2050 if our population increases at the expected rate. It would require the resource equivalent of three planets to sustain current lifestyles by then. Scientists are working hard to provide this information; however, most of the public is unaware of the imminent danger that is looming ahead. About one-third of the food produced globally is wasted, resulting in a loss of about $250 billion every year. The resulting carbon footprint is also as devastating when it comes to influencing climate change. Americans alone waste one trillion gallons of water each year. Food waste takes its share of that, as water is a main constituent of food. This crisis is unperceived by the public today, which is often driven by the desire to have surpluses of food, water, clothing, technology, and so on. In addition, companies often do little to mitigate this problem as they have their eyes primarily set on profit. For instance, why are millions of new phones are made each year, draining natural resources like tungsten, copper, and even gold, while people get to keep five older versions of the same phone at their home rather than recycling them? The same problem occurs in the clothing industry, leading to bulging closets. I’m concerned that our future generations will inherit a world that is no longer fruitful unless we start practicing strict conservatory methods. The media needs to work harder to help researchers convey their findings and possible solutions. Our future generations will thank us for each small step we take

Over the past couple of years, humans have managed to alter our landscape in various ways. As our population and sense of creation increases, we get the urge to expand our living and build up new technology alongside with it. Although this gradual change seems like a natural path for us to take, it also poses as a great threat. We are rapidly using all of our resources and by doing so, we continue to harm the environment in which we live in and also for future generations to come. If it wasn’t actions such as President Ulysses S. Grant signing for Yellow Stone to be the first national park or the Wilderness Act in 1964( NTL PARKS VIDEO); Our environment as we know it today, will not have some of its beautiful wilderness or protected areas that

Humans are the biggest enemy of the Earth and they are the most polluting species. Earth is very good at recycling waste, but we are generating far more than earth can handle. Pollution happens at different levels and it does not just impact our planet; it impacts all species, including mankind, who dwell on it (Patterson, n.d.). A group of scientists from McGill University recently published a paper in which they identified the environmentalist’s paradox that affirms, “over the past 40 years, human wellbeing has been steadily improving while natural ecosystems have been declining” (p.

Rapid unfolding of devastating changes in the ecosystems, historically high air and water temperatures, resulting in escalating number and frequency of natural cataclysms, prolonged droughts and record rainfalls leading to massive floods, raising sea levels, exponentially increasing levels of air and water pollution - all these factors should prompt us to stop and reconsider the role of our contribution to the environmental chaos in the universe. Acknowledging all the emerging scientific data, the preservation of our environment becomes our principal personal duty not only to the future generations but even more so to ourselves. The gruesome perspective of the fulminant development of the destructive consequences of ever-rising consumerism,

It is a fact that people in different parts of the world have already experienced and realized the detrimental effects of their activities where they live. As much as people do not like to live in a dirty city, they are concerned to cut down all the forests and to poison the entire potable water. The governments of different countries together with businesses are ready to implement and fund programs to restore and preserve the environment, but the difficulty lies in the fact that different countries, like people, have different levels of understanding and implementation of these actions. Mahatma Gandhi said: “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” It is not difficult to understand, that the main geneses

The piece of some the assigned reading that interest me the most is the effect of greediness and behaviors impacting the environment. As such, in ‘Eco Defense”, however the writer pointed out the imperative for one’s to take action to preserve the environment. Addition, in “The call of Wild” the author highlights the behaviors of humankind destroying everything; such as, earth and naturel resources, and as well as animals, trees and plant are being affected by the disruption of the human. Basically my topic will be on the environment and what other aspect that are destroying the planet and also what can be done to educate the new generation about it. Not only I believe it is a patriotic thing to preserve the planet and also believe that it

All around the world, people are consuming more resources, than what can be replenished in the same amount of time. The United States has one of the largest ecological footprints around the world; we are depleting resources very

We are taught about the relation of human beings with their environment from the early days of our schooling. But what we have achieved is failure in protecting our environment.We have not, as a species, come to grips with the explosive events that have changed our relationship with the planet. For most of human existence, we lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers whose impact on nature could be absorbed by the resilience of the biosphere. Even after the Agricultural Revolution 10,000

Our earth, where we are born, where we grow, where we live, is our home. We as humans interconnect with the environment by influencing and affecting each other. Our responsibility is to cherish and take care of our home. We are stewards over the earth and we should preserve the earth and its natural resources, but we cannot have a reliable planet if populations are growing out of control. E.O. Wilson said, “We are in a bottleneck of over population and wasteful consumption that could push half of the Earth’s species to extinction in this century.” (1)

The decline of the environment due to natural and human exertion is known as the degradation of the environment. The natural weather occurrences such as heavy rain, flooding, storms, earthquakes, volcanoes etc. are not administered under human control. These meteorological phenomenon’s wreak devastation on the environment from time to time causing the land to become unsuitable to cultivate. On this subject matter, the human population does not contain the power to stop the wrath of Mother Nature. Rather, we are forced to sit back and watch. Nevertheless, humans engage in a crucial role towards the degradation of the environment in which we live in. Unavoidably, the degradation of the environment is a rising and utmost worldwide subject. I accept that the root cause to environmental degradation is the excessive use of resources on our land utilized by the processes under capitalism. As Jensen wrote in Endgame, “The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human and (nonhuman) impoverishment.

Audience: My essay will be focused to those groups of society who thinks conservation of the environment is just the waste of time, money, and energy. And those who think they will live today why to worry about what happen tomorrow. I will also be focusing to those who think that in this big world with the population more than 7 billion effort of conserving the environment by of one person will be like a drop of water in hot desert.