Caring is the best way to preserve

                            
             On June 5 marks the day of the environment.

          The creation date was 1972, on account of a meeting sponsored by the United Nations (UN), to discuss environmental issues, which encompass the planet, known as the United Nations conference.

         The conference brought together 113 countries, where the main agenda dealt with the degradation that man has caused to the environment and risks to their survival, where biological diversity should be preserved beyond any possibility.

         At that meeting, they have created several documents related to environmental issues, as well as a plan to trace the actions of mankind and of the government towards the problem.

       The importance of the date it is due to open discussions about the pollution of air, soil and water, deforestation, reduction of biodiversity and fresh water for human consumption, destruction of the ozone layer, destruction of plant species and forests, extinction of animals, among others.

            Be ethical is  be sustainable!







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Hey! Do Your Part!

There are here ten easy steps to you start now to make difference:

1. Reuse the plastic grocery bags you have. There are a million uses for them, from picking up pet droppings to re-using as trash bags in the car or home;

2. Try don't eat meat for one or two days a week;

3. When buying cleaning supplies, look if it is biodegradable, otherwise the water will clean the majority to you;

4. Walk more, leave the car in the garage, what is healthy too. When you can, give rides to friends and neighbors.

5. Buy used books.

6. Do not leave your appliances on stand-by mode;

7. Give a backlash to your car;
If it comes once a week in the garage, after one year savings in CO2 emissions will reach 440 pounds - a volume that large trees take twenty years to absorb in photosynthesis

8. Use both sides of paper;
American businesses throw away 21 million tons of paper every year, equal to 175 pounds per office worker. For a quick and easy way to halve this, set your printer's default option to print double-sided (duplex printing). And when you're finished with your documents, don't forget to take them to the recycling bin

9. Take a shorter bath;

Every two minutes you save on your shower can conserve more than ten gallons of water. If everyone in U.S. saved just one gallon from their daily shower, over the course of the year it would equal twice the amount of freshwater withdrawn from the Great Lakes every day

10. Download your software;

Most software comes on a CD, and more than thirty billion compact discs of all types are sold annually. That's a huge amount of waste, not to mention the associated packaging. Another bonus to downloading your software is that it's often available for download at a later date when you upgrade to a new computer or are attempting to recover from a crash

Why do you have to save the soil?

Usually, when it is thought about pollution, it’s common that people remember the air pollution and the water pollution, but the soil pollution is put in a low ground. But it isn’t correct. A plan to cleanse the soil is an immediate need, before it’s too late.

 

It's important to remember: earth is life.

The soil is very important to the human surviving. Excepting by fishes, the human food comes practically totally from earth – fruits, vegetables, roots, every kind of meat… But the current methods of agriculture and livestock are very aggressive with soil. And some activities, like mining, can destroy a lot of rich soil.

So, it’s important a sensible attitude above earth. Great part of plagues that destroys plantations and contaminates the soil is introduced by humans. Many plantations and cattle ranches don’t take care of environmental consequences – an example is deforestation. The attitudes must go from producers, distributors, traders, and consumers, especially.

Why do you have to save the air?

Before you continue reading this text, try to stop breathing one minute. It's the hardest thing in world, isn’t it? You understood the air’s importance. Air is a human’s need, as plants’ and animals’. Who has asthma, or anything like this, knows how to have difficulty breathing disturbs the daily life.

The air pollution contributes to increase incidences of respiratory problems.

Day to day, more and more toxic gases are sent into the atmosphere. These gases are originated from cars, trucks, factories, energy plants. Some ruminants, such as cows, goats and sheep, also contribute. These poisons cause respiratory problems, cancer, dehydration, etc., and serious environmental problems caused by the greenhouse effect and the decrease in the ozone layer.

A scenario with a strongly polluted air is simply apocalyptic. Then, walk to nearby places instead of driving, and buy products from companies who replant trees (trees absorb carbon dioxide) are small contributions that, if applied globally, have prevented our children breathe bad air.

Why do you have to save water?

The water is very important to humans. Since the beginning of the human history, water was ever treated as a treasure, because without this there isn’t success. It’s a great mistake say that just the humankind needs this precious element to survive… the plants, the fishes, every kind of life need water to survive.

Thales used to say "Everything comes from water".

The men use the water when produce food, take bath, construct or move around. There aren’t nothing the humans do the water doesn’t become direct or indirectly involved. But it bad use can cause problems: acid rain, flooding, sewer, fishes’ death.

And the more terrible of all: water fail. It’s important to remember the human need for water. So, water saving is necessary. When you see an open faucet, a good exercise is to think how would be the life if that was all the water in world. Really, you won’t waste or pollute the water nevermore.

Why do you have to save the world?

Humanity can't survive by itself. To live in the Earth, the men need food, shelter, and raw materials. Obviously, nothing of that comes from emptiness. The man must live harmoniously with nature. The humanity needs water, air, plants, animals, etc.; everything is important to the life maintenance in Earth, since the smallest virus to the biggest ocean.

People living harmoniously with nature in a Chinese village.
So, it’s more than important that the men change your relationships with the natural recourses. The sustainability isn’t just an Esthetical question or a way to “pay” to the nature all the human costs. The humanity needs to save the world to save itself. It’s an obligation, a must, a situation the humankind can’t forgive.
The next time you’re in a supermarket and don’t buy a biodegradable detergent because it’s too expensive, you must remember that the life in the Earth costs more than $1.99, and maybe your son or daughter won’t swim in the river or drink fresh water, because the last river will be empty of soul and life.