Environmental Impact


We, humans, have the biggest impact on Earth since we do a lot of different activities that harm the environment and we use numerous natural resources. It is our choice whether to help ourselves become environment friendly or not; and it isn’t just all talk because it is not words that prove change but our actions do.  Ecological footprint is a way to measure the impact of human activities in area. It is important that you know about ecological footprint because it helps you realize the activities you do that affects planet Earth. Here are some examples of how objects we use or activities that we do affect the environment: The amount of gas we use for transportation, the amount of processed food that we eat, the amount of electricity we use and how efficient it is, and the amount of garbage we have or the amount recycling that we do.  

But which type of people have the most negative impact on the environment? I believe that the wealthier the country is or the wealthier the family is the bigger the impact they have on the environment; but also people who are suffering from poverty have a big impact. Wealthy families usually tend to buy a lot of goods that they don’t use and that can cause harm to the environment, or they buy a lot of cars that use a lot of gas and causes air pollution, or buy a lot of food and resources excessively that they don’t need and just throw it all away at the end, or they just buy a lot of technology that are not even efficient. All of these examples tend to have a huge impact on the environment. But when poor people don’t get provided with the basic necessities they harm the environment unknowingly since they lack education. For example they might harm the forests or the water bodies without having the intentions to do that. 

After calculating my ecological footprint, I found out that if everyone lived with the same lifestyle as I did, we would need 5.8 Earths; and it hit me that this is not what I’m supposed to be doing to the environment that I’m living in and the environment that provides me food, water, and shelter. I am going to start taking care of the environment and being careful with the actions that could harm the environment as much as I can. I am going to carpool a lot so we can have less gas and less air pollution, I am also going to try to stop eating processed food, I am going to try and recycle the garbage we have, and last but not least I will try to get the technology that have the most efficiency.
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I think that learning how to treat the environment better should be a priority, because if you keep harming the environment it won’t do any good for you. Life is full of natural resources that we need; so in order for us to keep it that way, we need to have less impact on the environment and start doing what we can to help better the environment.

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