The Environment: How can you help it?

The environment is a mess. Everyone can understand that cant they? Well I’m not so sure. Nobody seems to care about anything that’s happening anymore. People will keep on polluting, throwing trash on the ground, cutting down the rainforest, and aiding in the continuation of global warming. When will it stop? What can you do to help stop it? It doesn’t take a genius. Go online and look up ways to help your environment. There is list after list and website after website that gives you ideas. Try recycling, or using cloth bags instead of plastic ones. Cut down on our electricity intake or go organic. You can do so much more for your planet than what you are doing. If you need volunteer hours, then pick up trash on the beach, or find an environmental club in the area. Whatever you do, just get up and do it already. Write letters to your city mayor asking him or her to do something environmental, like making recycling mandatory, or eliminating plastic bags from grocery stores. If you have a voice, use it. Now let’s talk about the rainforest. The rainforest is slowly but surely disappearing. But not everyone knows this, and not everyone cares. Until people realize what is happening, no one will try to stop it. And so as the years go by the rainforest will disappear. The rainforest provides us with much of our oxygen supply, most of our medicines and foods, and the majority of our paper products. Not only does it regulate temperatures and weather patterns, it also contains over 2,000 tropical plants containing anti-cancer properties. Without it we would be nothing. A typical four square mile patch of rainforest contains as many as 1,500 flowering plants, 750 species of trees, 400 species of birds and 150 species of butterflies. Each day over 100 species, known or unknown, become extinct as the rainforest is cut down. How much is cut down or ask? Every second a slice of rainforest the size of a football field is cut down. That’s 86,400 football fields of rainforest per day, or over 31 million football fields of rainforest each year. Not much rainforest left after that is there?
So what happens to the animals, the medicinal plants and the native people who live in the rainforest? They die off. Once everything is gone, our lives soon become in jeopardy. Our oxygen levels go down; the weather gets worse and worse, creating monstrous hurricanes and typhoons around the world. And on top of it all, our economy suffers. Everything we have and sell that once came from the rainforest will slowly become lower in quantity. Certain foods will no longer be in grocery stores, and paper products will be scarce in schools and offices. No money will come in for items that do not exist. So what can be done? It’s simple. Spread the word to your friends and family and ask them to support the rainforest. Donate money to programs that help the rainforest such as the Arbor Day Foundation or the Rainforest Action Network. Hold presentations or pass out brochures to your class. Do whatever it takes to save the rainforest. Our lives depend on it.
What about global warming? IT IS OUR FAULT. Deny it all you want but its true. If we didn’t pollute so much that we destroyed the UV rays, which makes the earth hotter, which melts the ice caps, then wouldn’t we all be better off? But who’s going to take action? Who’s going to stand up for what’s right, and get of their lazy behinds and do something? Polar bears are dying. Water levels are rising. Florida will be underwater if this continues. And if you love Disney world as much as I do then I’m sure you wouldn’t love to go there and have to wear scuba gear to get to it. I’m sure we all would rather watch TV and hang with friends, but right now isn’t the time. Right now we need to step up and stop spending all of our money on worthless junk at the store and start donating to causes that need it. You boys out there don’t need another video game, and the girls don’t need new makeup and clothes. What you need is to take that allowance that you would have spent on something for yourself and spend it on something that could save the world.
And on another negative note, oil prices. You can’t go one day without complaining about them. They just keep getting higher and higher, and soon you’ll be paying ten dollars a gallon. I hope everybody out there can ride bikes because that’s what you’ll be driving to work and school with. These high oil prices will not go down. The more higher they get the angrier people will become and who knows, we might even have a world war 3. Make a protest. If everyone in this world went one day without buying gas, the whole oil economy will suffer greatly. This may seem cruel but it in fact would make a huge difference. The fall of the oil economy will make people realize that oil is just too high for people to buy anymore and so they have stopped buying it altogether. If they become desperate enough they’ll lower the price of gas in order to keep the money flowing. But since nobody has the guts to do anything about it, then I suggest you stop complaining. If you hear someone complaining about oil prices, or saying something about global warming, and how everybody is hurting the environment, I want you to stand up and with your loudest voice say “then let’s do something about it! Let’s stop talking about it and do something because actions speak louder than words!” We are the only thing that can stop this destruction of the planet. Not God, not a miracle, not even magic or wishing or praying. Our actions, our protests, our courage and bravery to stand up to the stupid people with cold and black hearts who don’t care are the only thing that can make a difference. Use what you got and use it well, or live with the shame.

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