Sustainability

Sustainability is the endurance of change. This is very important for people and the earth today because the earth is always changing. With human’s constant research and development there is always new impacts on the earth. The sustainability of the earth is very important because people are constantly changing the way they treat the earth.

Before we knew about the thinning ozone layer, we were doing nothing to protect it; now however, we are trying to protect it, having learned what harm we have done to it. It has been known that aerosol cans have thinned out the ozone so these days less and less of those have been made, replaced with squirt bottles it is much better for the ozone layer. We have also caused much pollution to the air and water. This has caused many problems for the earth and its creatures, and while there is awareness of this happening, not everyone is helping the cause. There are new laws in order to reduce air and water pollution for all ecosystems, however it is still happening. One major innovation that will help change this is electric cars and not always using fossil fuel in order to run. In order to maintain sustainability of the earth all people need to become part of this cause to help the environment. (Hyperlink A)

The earth has had to sustain from no cars and big industrial buildings letting out air pollution with every move they make, to the world crowded with cars and big industrial buildings. The other big issue is deforestation, which is the clearing of the forests which trees are used for paper, houses, etc. This has had a huge affect on the whole environment, all ecosystems. This is being helped by all the new technology eliminating much of the use of paper materials. However, this is not used to the full affect that it could be and it would help very much to eliminate almost all paper materials by putting most books, textbooks, magazines, etc. onto paperless materials such as Ipads, Kendals, Tabs, etc. Technology like this has helped deforestation in the past few years, if it becomes more widespread though, it could help so much more. (Hyperlink B)

Things such as Earth Day, the hour that we turn off all of our lights, the EPA, and many other things are all steps for a more sustainable earth that we can still live on happily. (Hyperlink C) We have done many irreversible things to this earth’s environment and ecosystem that we can not take back, however we are taking actions to protect the earth and ecosystems that will keep the earth sustainable years from now.

Hyperlink A: http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/air-pollution/

Hyperlink B: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation-overview/

Hyperlink C: http://www.emagazine.com/archive/2481

Lindsay E