What I Do, What I Could Do, What I Will Do.
The environment has a great impact on human health and development. It intertwines with our lifestyle for us to attain the highest possible quality of health. The natural environment is known to be a determinant to human health. For example, air quality affects persons with respiratory diseases. The environment not only affects the well-being of humans but animals as well. Animals depend solely on the environment as it is a means of their survival. Environmental issues have caused a great disturbance because of human activity or I would say human carelessness. These environmental issues have caused mass destruction, death, poverty, and fear in many countries. They have also caused hundreds or thousands
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I had knowledge of a few environmental issues such as pollution and global warming affecting the world. But it never occurred to me how serious these situations were in different countries. I only see my actions as helping the environment in a small way by keeping it clean. I do not litter because I despise seeing the sight of trash on the ground. When I do see a recycle bin available I dispose my recyclables the correct bin. While staying on campus I realize that the university does not express recycling and I end up disposing my trash in the large garbage bins. This is just an addition to the amount waste being buried under ground. The toxins from the waste that can possibly be absorbed by plants or leached into the ground water. The water that we desperately need to drink and use every day. Also I try to eat healthy foods such as greens and fruits than meats and maintain my portions. I take short showers and use more cool water to save electricity. I make an effort to use less electricity as my mother taught me that using less power would reduce the cost of the current bill. However, I realized that I still leave the light on when I should not. In addition, when I am driving back at home in the Caribbean I was not concerned about the amount of carbon dioxide polluting the atmosphere. I was more concerned about my mother scolding me about the amount of gas …show more content…
I will first educate the student body on the environmental issues and solutions to reduce the effects. If students are not educated on the environmental issues the world is facing, they will not be conscience of their own surrounding becoming a hazard to their health. I will start by encouraging my roommate to turn off the light when she is not using it, conserve water, and recycle. Then I will move on to encouraging my classmates, professors, the student body, and even the public to do the same. Examples of what I should do will be what all students should do to help preserve the environment. I will go to the head of the school and negotiate about more recycling promotions, promoting healthy eating, and seminars about the environment. We cannot wait for more of the human population to perish to do something about it. We cannot bring back the dead and we cannot make a change in a day. Everything takes time, patience, and dedication which is a crucial task for humanity. But are we dedicated enough to make a change in our lives to save the
Environment plays a big role in human health. Having a healthy environment such as clean air can bring positive impact to people’s health.
There is one hundred and eighty days of school and seven hours in each day. Out of the whole year, one day is dictated to the environment and talked about for five hours. On this day, every teacher makes sure that they have their shiny blue and green buckets out right next to the door that they have set out themselves a few days before this special day. That way when the environmentalist comes to visit and starts to show pictures of the recycling bins, no one starts acting clueless. These very important people start explaining the reason for choosing this particular school to give a very important speech about saving earth as well including that prizes will be passed out if all questions are answered correctly at the end. But only to find out
There is no such thing as just changing something from one part and not having its effects distribute throughout the entire ecosystem. As an ecosystem continues changing and evolving, so will the organisms living around or in it. We must adapt to the environment or we will become extinct, unable to adapt into the rapidly changing environment we live in. Althout human impact on an environment may benefit us, it can also be harmful to nature. By taking care of what we do to the environment, we can prevent future negative changes in the environment and preserve earth’s natural state.
At my school, I am an active member of a program called S.E.E.D., which stands for Students Ending Environmental Destruction. As a group, spread awareness about recycling, water conservation and remediation, climate change, and other environmental problems the world faces today. We make sure that every classroom has a recycling bin and informative posters above them. We have hosted movie nights where we provide healthy, GMO-free refreshments and show an educational film that relates to a current issues to spread awareness. We have also convinced our school to install stations that are specifically meant to refill water bottles as it encourages students to stop buying plastic bottles and wasting plastic. Taking care of the environment and educating our youth, the congressmen, women, and voters of tomorrow who will be the deciding factors of the earth’s health, and consequently the people’s health, is crucial to me.
Overall, humans impact the global environment in multitudinous ways whether positive or negative. While creating issues such as overpopulation, pollution, biomagnification, and deforestation they also intrude into many other factors such as environmental, social, political, and economic. Problems caused by society itself are leading up to solutions to fix these environmental problems and may also just benefit the world as a whole.
As a teacher, I try to stress these important points through my earth day lesson plans. I teach at a charter school, where we try to emphasize environmental education above everything else. We have a school community garden, a compost bin and an active recycling program which we use to teach the kids how to be responsible stewards for the earth. With our earth day environmental program, however, we go a step beyond that.
The environment had (and has) a big effect on all people, whether good or bad.
that are the increase of the earth’s temperature, extreme weather, and the rise of the sea level.
One of my personal goals for the project was to learn as much as I could about the sustainability issue facing us. I did this by participating in all of the projects that were done throughout the semester. The main project that occurred during the semester was the personal sustainability goals that we each set for ourselves. While doing the actions that we pledged to do, we learned different things about sustainability that we never knew before. One of the things that I learned was that, at Clemson, it is hard for students who want to recycle to be able to recycle. There are not the necessary facilities nearby our student housing to place our recyclables. I also learned that some actions that should be done to be sustainable are hard to do in the society that we live in. One of these activities that we do is the needless driving that Americans do in general. Since we live in a moving society, it is sometimes hard to do. An easy thing that everyone can do is to recycle some of his or her wastes. This can be done for most people at little or no extra effort than just throwing your trash away.
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The way I live compared to a few classmates of mine, I have the most impact on the earth. As well as compared to my whole class I would say that I change the environment more than an average person would. For example my total footprint according to the ecological footprint quiz I took is about 28 acres. With the results that it had given me I suspect that my actions of using a lot of services and the way I use my transportation, are the most impactful way I affect the earth. The reason my mobility on the quiz is one of the highest percentages from the categories is because I drive a good amount, and on top of that I have truck that does not get good gas mileage which in results give off more emissions to pollute the air. I was not surprised with my ecological footprint because I knew I impacted my environment greatly, but did not know the exact or estimated amount. In comparison to my classmates I also was not surprised that we all affected the earth greater than an average person because I knew that I did, so it led me to think that there were people who in similar amount affect the
Because of the dangerous of the pollution, we have to do something to protect our campus or even our earth. I believe some effective solutions which can help are suggested as following.
The environment and health are very closely linked. The environment in which we inhabit and go about our daily lives, directly impacts on our physical, mental and social well-being. There are biological, chemical and physical factors that can affect human health in a physical and mental way. The World Health Organisation states that "health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO 1948), meaning that although many factors relating to health are associated with environmental pollution, they can also be caused by the environment in which we work and live in. The relationship between the environment and health, can however be quite complex. Human health is not only as a result of air, water and ground pollution, but also things such as food, genetics, life style and quality, which directly affect human susceptibility to illness, disease and possibly death. Disruptions to the environment, such as substance dispersal, climate change, acidification, ground pollution, photochemical air pollution and over fertilisation can also impact on human health. Therefore, there are direct and indirect links to the environment and health issues.
Today talking about environmental issues lately to be like a common topic discussion until people take it for granted. However, the world facing a complex environmental problems related to each trouble that connected to one another and come out with greater impacts to the environment and humans. This is because the effects of environmental only can be seen in long term period rather than immediately result show up. Environmental issues must become one of the controversial matters in the society in order to make people know the truth what the world currently facing. There were a lot of environmental disaster happened such as climate change, global warming, various of pollutions, earthquake and etc. the rise of environmental issues begin with this urban development occur through several countries following with the technologies equip along. For sure, development will cause a huge negative impact to the environment if it deals without a care. Besides, the environment is the place in the ecosystem to hold and use in finding resources to continuously survive in this world. Thus, the finding and digging for the resources which happening extensively without preservation will not restore the surrounding similar with before. But then, the change cannot be refuse and people need to take an action to save the threaten the world and the ecosystem from being extinct. If each country has own output in causing an environmental problem, then consider the world to hold all the damage occurred. Exposing the effects of environmental issues throughout the world, make people realize the important to take care the environment.
Environmental pollution has always remained a serious problem in society today. Our planet is often being polluted by many toxins that are not only deadly to us, but our wildlife too. Environmental pollution leads to air pollution, environmental crisis, and global warming. Now there are many different ways that can help these topics be preventable. People need to understand what environmental sustainability truly is. Learning environmental sustainability will give people the tools and knowledge to help sustain our planet before it is too late. Planet earth is our home and people need to understand the damage being done to it. Understanding these important key factors will lead our planet to become healthier and a better place for life to live.