From generation to
generation the earth has changed through various ways from how its inhabitants
treat their surroundings. Year after year we see news reports on certain
critical environmental crises that remind us how our actions can affect the
planet that we live on. The recent California drought crisis has given me a wakeup
call on how fragile we humans are and how much we depend on the earth to live. By
this time next year, California will be out of water. The precious water which
every human need to survive on, without water we won’t even be able to accomplish
our basic necessities in our daily lives. Things such as water conservation
should have been in place before this crisis will devastate us. Even now when
residents of California should be conserving water to the maximum, still water
is wasted through major water parks being open pumping hundreds of gallons of
water every day just for profit. This environmental issue can be spread
throughout the globe with pollution and water contamination. Recently, the oil
spill in Santa Barbara has even further impacted our water situation with the
coast now polluted with the oil and its dangerous chemicals. Various marine and
animal lives have been impacted because of the oil spill, a man made accident. Not only have we made living on earth harder
for us, but we have made it even harder for the eco system to survive. We
constantly destroy animal’s habitats for human profit without any concern to
how our actions will impact the animal kingdom.
It is because of our colonization and modernization that has destroyed
the earth’s natural and livable environmental state.
I am truly
concerned with what kind of earth we are leaving for the new generation to live
in. In what state will we leave the earth for them to live out their lives? From
each generation to the next, we further degrade the state of earth to only
leave the new generation with a more devastated form of earth to deal with. We
are so selfish in the way we think about the consideration of other’s well
beings that when we choose to make the decision of polluting the earth’s
atmosphere or its water system, we have no thought of how these decisions will
impact the lives of the future generations. To put it simply, we are just
making a mess of earth and leaving the next generation to clean up our
mistakes. If we are no considered with how the new generation lives out their
lives then I believe we should stop having children. By not producing the newer
generation then we save them the trouble of living in a worsen state of the
earth we grew up in. If we continue down
our selfish path then we eliminate the opportunities that the newer generation
will be able to have, imagine a future earth where the air so polluted that
everyone will have to wear air masks on an everyday basis because the
atmosphere is so toxic. By doing so, we take away the ability for the newer
generation to actually be able to breathe fresh air. Earth’s resources are not infinite;
they are continuously depleting everyday with the human race’s appetite of
consumption ever so growing. Everyone
should take into account on how their every action when using a resource can
impact the earth’s biological system, because without the earth supplying the
human race it’s necessities we as a species will most certainly die off.
To counteract this
tragedy we are inflicting on our mother earth, everyone should be conserving
and doing their part to lessen the amount of resources they are consuming so
that the same opportunities that were given during their generation will be available
to the new generation. Only then can we insure the prosperity of our earth, the planet we call our home.
