How to Save Mother Earth
Maika Loise D. Dingal August 29, 2012
INTARMED Blk. 15
2012-31404
Giving back to the Womb that gave us Life
We were born into this world completely provided with everything – food, air, natural riches and a beautiful environment that would serve as our home. We are so secure, safe and well-nourished within Mother Earth’s womb. However, we never saw the real extent of how precious this planet is to us and we went out the world as a successful species but completely a failure as sons and daughters of Mother Earth. Instead of protecting and nurturing the environment, we did just the opposite. We built factories that release substances that destroy the environment and kill many animals, we brilliantly invented new materials but took so long to realize that they would in the future become non-biodegradable trash that would accumulate in the environment, we throw our trash everywhere and most of all, we do not value wildlife. Along with our success as a species came the extinction of many animals thus wreaking havoc on ecological systems. What we are unaware of is that all of our abuses to the environment would affect us largely in the long run. Change. This is the one thing that could turn things around and reverse all the consequences of our actions. Change in our attitude, personality, outlook and actions. This change should start within each of us. After my realization of how humans have destroyed the environment, I decided to be more careful of my actions in order to lessen harm on our planet. I am aware that there is no way for us to totally eradicate activities that affect the environment to some extent because that would mean that the human civilization would have to move backwards and embrace its primitive ways. I understand that modernization comes side by side with human advancement and progress. But what I want to seek are ways through which we could lessen the degree of the impact of our activities to the environment. That is why, as an
INTARMED Blk. 15
2012-31404
Giving back to the Womb that gave us Life
We were born into this world completely provided with everything – food, air, natural riches and a beautiful environment that would serve as our home. We are so secure, safe and well-nourished within Mother Earth’s womb. However, we never saw the real extent of how precious this planet is to us and we went out the world as a successful species but completely a failure as sons and daughters of Mother Earth. Instead of protecting and nurturing the environment, we did just the opposite. We built factories that release substances that destroy the environment and kill many animals, we brilliantly invented new materials but took so long to realize that they would in the future become non-biodegradable trash that would accumulate in the environment, we throw our trash everywhere and most of all, we do not value wildlife. Along with our success as a species came the extinction of many animals thus wreaking havoc on ecological systems. What we are unaware of is that all of our abuses to the environment would affect us largely in the long run. Change. This is the one thing that could turn things around and reverse all the consequences of our actions. Change in our attitude, personality, outlook and actions. This change should start within each of us. After my realization of how humans have destroyed the environment, I decided to be more careful of my actions in order to lessen harm on our planet. I am aware that there is no way for us to totally eradicate activities that affect the environment to some extent because that would mean that the human civilization would have to move backwards and embrace its primitive ways. I understand that modernization comes side by side with human advancement and progress. But what I want to seek are ways through which we could lessen the degree of the impact of our activities to the environment. That is why, as an