Some Issues on Global Warming
Many of us go through life oblivious to how we influence the environment we live in today. We think about things like treating others better and recycling tin cans. The more aware among us may even have a separate garbage for paper, plastic, metals, and non-recyclables. But do we really take the time to think about how each action during the course of the day helps or hurts our environment? We should really take a look into how we interact with our environment in each action. One of the more prominent ways in which we can now see the negative impacts of mankind on nature is in the phenomenon now known as global warming.
The most long recognized of human contributions to the destruction of the planet are in the area of deforestation. Science has known for many generations that it was the dense forests of the world providing for the health value of the air we breathe. In the last couple of generations, we learned that these forests can also help filter a lot of our pollutants out of the air. Meanwhile, we cut down trees to grow lawns, burn wood to keep warm, and build wood homes and furniture, without first making sure that each tree we use is replaced. As the populations of human polluters increase and the numbers of trees fighting pollution are lost, we become more and more overwhelmed by the results of atmospheric pollution. Pollution carbons are rising constantly into the the atmosphere around us, while the number of trees to filter these carbons are being reduced in great numbers annually.
You need only look to the cities to see the pollution that has put us in this global warming crisis. You can see the pollution in the air. You can see the polluters puttering along in the streets, packed full of cars. You can hear the honking horns of action. You can see the smokestacks delivering mass amounts of visible and invisible pollutants into the air all day long. How can nature battle such a foe?
Also, what about all of the dairies and food cattle herds constantly increasing in numbers? Science tells us the methane of cows may be one of the worst pollutants we face. As we replace plant crops and forests with grazing animals, we set nature's balance on its ear. These things may add to the flavor of life and the comfort of life for individuals in the present, but what of the future of mankind?
There are many other issues on global warming not covered, but the idea is basically simple. There are many small contributors and factors to global warming that are of themselves small issues. But when you combine them together they interact in ways that can be very destructive. The more of these little offenders that each one of us has the personal responsibility to remove from our lives, the greater the individual impact on the world. And, if we are really serious about reversing global warming, we can start adding some things back into the world around us. How about planting a tree or an organic garden this year?
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