The Importance Of Environmental Issues On The Environment

Have you ever thought about how your actions or opinions affected the environment around you? We’re constantly unaware of what we do that impacts the environment’s condition. One author named Wendell Berry blames the public in his article regarding the way society and the industry has treated the environment and its natural resources. This raises concerns whether we should be putting more importance on the economy or the land that we live in for the sake of our future survival. While I agree with most of Berry’s points and perspectives I slightly disagree with a few of his opinions, but nonetheless he brings up a great matter in today’s modern society.

While environmental questions are frequently channeled through practical and economic prisms, it is also appropriate to consider our econolgy as a function of morality. The ethical dilemmas which contribute to our policies and our behaviors regarding the use of fossil fuels and our attention to global climate change are frequently overshadowed by more immediate concerns of survival or mere comfort.

For us to make a difference now and tend to the environmental “monsters” we have created we have to first learn and appreciate our connection with

The insanity that plagues modern society, and more specifically, the United States, is that the majority of us have little or no regard towards our Mother Earth. This sheer ignorance and ethnocentrism is damaging to our Earth, but rarely do people choose to acknowledge it. Slowly but surely, our world is dying, and it due to the combined insanity of the human race, and the complete disregard towards our home planet. Global warming, unequal wealth distribution, war, etc., are all detrimental to our natural world. These are things that we have caused, yet many people turn a blind eye when it comes to this fact. We live in a bubble; many people do not dare to venture out of our culture’s way of thinking. The fact is, we are the ones that need

With these possibilities comes choices. No matter what the circumstance is, there is always a choice. The question then comes down to, will we make the right choice. When it comes to the environment, people seem to make choices that reap in our benefit. “To realize these aspirations, we must decide to live with a sense of universal responsibility, identifying ourselves with the whole Earth community as well as our local communities” (The Earth Charter, 2016). People don’t realize our actions effect more than just us as humans. There are several other mammals, amphibians, reptiles, etc. that live among us. Earth has a give and take relationship. If we give to the Earth it will take care of us and its inhabitants if we take care of it. However, if we take from Earth, and essentially destroy it, it will destroy us. According to the World Health Organization, “it has been estimated that more than 12.5 million people died due to their exposure to an unhealthy environment worldwide, accounting for 25% of the total global deaths in 2012.” This is much like the case studies found in Ecoliterate. There is one case in particular about a father who watches as his daughter crawls towards him on their front patio. A moment that is supposed to be filled with joy quickly turns to anger when he picks her up and notices she is covered in coal dust. This dust came from the coal mining that is happening just down the road. As the child grows older she is

Everyone in my generation has probably grown up seeing ads or watching videos about pollution or about the environment in general, so much, to the point that these constant reminders about protecting our planet are already part of the norm for us. While these reminders have had positive effects, like how more and more people have become informed of the Earth’s condition, many people, myself included, still remain indifferent to the threats our environment faces. I won’t lie; I’m no saint or crusader for the cause, but every now and then certain videos or articles strike a chord within me and makes me reflect on the way how I’ve been living affects the environment. One such article was the one we read last week in class, “The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert in the Upfront magazine.

Bill Nye stated, “Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” Humans are not only causing the climate change that Nye mentioned, but are also destroying the environment by wasting resources. The world has a serious problem that, if not dealt with right away, will lead to environmental catastrophe. However some people may ignore this warning from Nye and use the argument that the United States doesn’t need to worry about the environment because more pressing matters exist. In today’s world everyone uses energy and resources to meet their daily needs, but some of it is wasted unintentionally. The American government and its citizens have the responsibility to reduce this waste.

The privileges of business versus our needs for safe land, water, and air are immensely essential points that are currently discuss. In my opinion the article “The Commitment to Persevere: by Rachel Carson” is very perceive. Is quite insane that people knowing devastate its own environment. “The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.”- Muller, G. H. (Pg. 670, 2014). Honestly, many people around the world think more about their principles of life than they do about the health of specific species and creatures that we scarcely even see. We should be careful, we are destroying ourselves as well as the planet itself. There are such a

The earth supplies humanity with a plethora of natural resources, but what has mankind done with these gifts? The modern world is a marvel of carefully constructed skyscrapers, painstakingly pieced together palaces, and brilliantly fabricated bridges. The United States has eliminated diseases that used to plague entire nations, constructed hypersonic jets, and made advancements in technology only dreamed about by past generations. However, society's beautiful and convenient design has a cost.

We live in a world that offers so many things to us. A home, food, water, life itself, yet we don 't take much care of it and are destroying it instead. The presence of pollution has been around for such a great amount of time now that you would expect us as humans, to start noticing the mass destruction we are causing and start doing something about it. Glaciers are melting, water levels are rising, the water and air around is being polluted if it 's not polluted already. There is little being done to try and stop or at least slow down this fatal event. If we do not start taking care of our own home, we will soon be left with no home at all, and the only one’s we can blame for that, is ourselves.

Ethics is the study of what is right and wrong in human conduct. Environmental ethics studies the effects of human’s moral relationships on the environment and everything within it (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2008). The ethical principles that govern those relations determine human duties, obligations, and responsibilities with regard to the Earth’s natural environment and all of the animals and plants that inhabit it (Taylor, 1989). The purpose of this paper is to reveal environmental issues that are threatening the existence of life on Earth, and discus our social obligations to refrain from further damaging our environment, health and life for future generations. I will discus the need for appropriate actions and the ethical

Environmental change on the planet can be caused by different exercises. At the point when environmental change happens; temperatures can expand a significantly. At the point when temperature rises, a wide range of changes can happen on Earth. For instance, it can bring about more surges, dry seasons, or extraordinary rain, and in addition more continuous and extreme warmth waves. Seas and icy masses have additionally encountered a few changes: seas are warming and ending up more acidic, ice sheets are dissolving, and ocean levels are rising. As these progressions regularly happen in future decades, they will probably exhibit difficulties to our general public and condition.

Throughout the modern era, people were becoming more aware of the importance of a clean, healthy environment. As the environmentalist movement began and more research was being done within environmental science, the public became increasing involved in the science. Environmental science and the public, throughout the modern era, were connected in a unique way, in that the public is not often practicing environmental science, but using it as a mode of promoting environmental justice and fueling the environmentalism movement, as demonstrated by increase of public interest after the publication of Silent Springs, the environmental justice and NIMBYism movements, and the change in the public from consumers to advocates.

This planet is home to seven billion people, and as the population still increasing, so does pollution. The debate associated with this contamination on the environment has to do with how much should be done to stop pollution, and whether or not this is a serious enough issue to be concerned with. Well, this issue should disturb people. The most frightening point about it is that these poisonous impurities infect the Earth in multiple forms, including air pollution and water pollution. The value of Earth is incomparable, and the presence of pollution devaluing it needs to be stopped because it impairs the environment, negatively affects human health, and it is something avoidable people can take simple, effective steps to prevent.

The Earth is a dynamic, constantly changing environment in which the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere all interact. When one changes slightly the change is then felt through out the spheres. Humans need to understand that the change they cause can have a potential for a disastrous affect on the environment. From injecting the atmosphere with greenhouse gas, or deforestation, all the unnatural things done to the environment will have an unnatural affect that will have to be dealt with. We as humans have a moral responsibility to reduce global warming gasses by changing our modes of transportation, to stop deforestation, and increase government funding into research to inhibit global warming for