As the human population thrives and
the population rises the environment suffers. The environment supports all different
kinds of organisms. It provides food and habitat for survival. Habitats are
being destroyed for human use which kills off or makes it hard to survive for
other animals and plants. The human use of fossil fuels is destroying the air
we breathe and also parts of earth.
The definition of Sustain is “able to be maintained at a certain rate or level”. This term is used in the
environment also. Environmental sustainability means to not use someone so much
that it is gone forever. People should not cut down more trees than what can
grow back. Trees provide oxygen to many things. Oxygen is a must to survive. If
all the trees are gone lack of oxygen will take over. Trees can be planted, but
they grow so slowly that the rate of removing trees for people use is much higher.
To sustain trees we should wait for
others to grow back before we continue to cut them down. People also use more
than they need. If something provides money like lumber to build houses it will
be used without much consideration of the long term effect. Rules and regulations
are put into effect to conserve things that we need for earth. Many studies
have shown that we are destroying earth and not giving it enough time to replenish.
At the rate the population of humans are growing people are taking over lands
where other organisms live. This destroys organisms and they become extinct. Some
things earth only produces once. An example is nonrenewable resources. Once it
is used it in gone forever like oil. Oil is used for many things and once it is
all used up another resource is used in replace of that and then that becomes
gone also. It is a long depleting cycle.
Earth gives us many things and
people should take care of it. If people do not start some big changes now the
future is at great risk.
