The FINAL Assignment.

Sustainability is the capacity to endure, or so the dictionary states, but in reality sustainability is so much more. It's how we should live our lives, it is realizing how what we are doing is affecting the world around us, our homes, and the rest of our lives. The main scare for me is the pollution, the fact that there is so many different types and so many ways it is affecting our environment. Ocean pollution, air pollution, and the pollution around our homes. We're harming fish, coral, keystone animals, the ozone, the water we drink, and so much more. Releasing the chemicals we do at the rate we do is a big issue keeping us from living sustainably. Combating it will take more than a couple laws, it is going to take the nation as a whole to come together and help the world with just one goal mind, make this nation sustainable.

Invasive

species provide good approaches to solving some of our most difficult problems, but unfortunately they eventually become a difficult problem of their own. Invasive species have certain mannerisms that allow them to simply be dropped into a new environment and grow just

as if they were never moved at all. A specific example, kudzu, was brought over from southeast China and southern part of Japan, it

was originally brought over for it's impressive fighting skills against soil erosion, but ended up taking over most of the natural plants due to it's lack of natural predators and the near perfect conditions for it over here in America.

Keystone species such as sea otters play a critical role in ecosystems. They hold up the entire ecosystem structure just by being alive. Such species have unique abilities that work into the flow of things and constitute the way of life for other organisms. Without keystone species everything would simply collapse. This will always be on my mind when I take my walks through the woods and see various creatures.

But probably the one factor that will stand out in my mind from all the rest of the information is the amount of water people use a day to function. It is absolutely insane, other people around the world barely have enough clean water to drink a day and yet here we are using clean water to bathe

in, wash our clothes, our dishes, and water our gardens.