| the majority of us think about the harm being done | | | | people today view trees as renewable resources, for |
| to the environment we typically point our fingers at | | | | the reason that you can always plant more trees. |
| big industries. True, it is a fact that they are doing | | | | The fact is that we are cutting those trees down |
| more harm than good in terms of their impact on our | | | | faster than we are replacing them. |
| environment, but the truth is that we, as individuals, | | | | The similar thing is true every time you light up a |
| are also doing our share of harm. | | | | cigarette. Smoking a cigarette harms the environment |
| In order to learn how to do your part to save the | | | | much more than generating that grocery list. |
| environment, you will have to first fully grasp what | | | | You may honestly assume that you are currently |
| you are doing to damage it - even if you aren't a | | | | doing your part in saving the environment, because |
| large industry. The truth is that a great deal of the | | | | you have a beautiful lawn. You always keep your |
| damage being done to the environment is less from | | | | lawn absolutely trimmed. You have trees and hedges, |
| big industries as it is from a world full of humans who | | | | which are also perfectly trimmed. But whenever you |
| do very little to save non-renewable resources. | | | | start one of those gasoline powered lawn machines, |
| These resources come from the earth, and in the | | | | you are harming the environment big time. |
| methods of getting those resources, the earth is | | | | The ways in which that you are probably doing more |
| being destroyed. | | | | harm than good go on and on. In reality, if you |
| What this means is that each time you drive your | | | | brought a expert into your home for a day and |
| vehicle, you are hurting the environment. First, the | | | | asked what you were doing to harm the |
| car actually pollutes the air, and second the resources | | | | environment, they would most probably tell you that |
| required to cause that vehicle to operate, come from | | | | almost everything that you were doing was bad! |
| the earth (fossil fuels, water, and gasoline). | | | | If that is the case, how can you possibly change |
| Each any time you making use of an aerosol spray, | | | | your evil environmental destructive ways? Well, most |
| you are also harming the environment. Aerosol's | | | | of us are not willing to give up the comforts in life, |
| make use of CFC's, or greenhouse gases known as | | | | and in fact, you really don't have to go to those |
| chlorofluorocarbons. These chemicals are altering the | | | | extremes. What we need to do is be more mindful |
| atmospheric conditions by trapping large amounts of | | | | of the resources that we are consuming, the energy |
| heat. | | | | that we are making use of, and how it has an effect |
| Every single time you compose a letter on paper, or | | | | on the earth as we know it, as well as the future of |
| make out your shopping list, you are harming the | | | | the earth. |
| environment. Paper comes from trees, and a lot of | | | | |