Why is environmental awareness so important nowadays?
When was the last time you experienced a serious storm or how about seen firsthand the effect of typhoon or watched it on the television. As you may have noticed there have been many changes in the earth’s climate, this is evidenced by the fact of what is happening around us and all over the world.
Environmental awareness is crucial at this point in history, since nature is trying to bring back the earth’s balance by taking back what man has claimed. Therefore, becoming aware of the reality is important and vital to our very survival. In case you do not know the more the environment becomes threatened by what we are all doing, the more we will experience many untoward abnormal weather conditions.
In the past 100 years or so there has been a steady increase in the amount of carbon dioxide released to the earth’s surface and this has caused our atmosphere to change dramatically. Climate change is caused by many reasons such as excess carbon dioxide that is linked to numerous man made activities.
The greenhouse effect can cause many changes in our climate such as the Earth’s polar caps melting and thus increase the ocean level, and subsequently flooding the nearby coastal cities or low lying regions. In fact, it has already happened in some countries i.e. places where an hour of rain caused major flooding and destroyed houses, crops and businesses.
Although, a large quantity of carbon dioxide will greatly benefit some plants, the effects on the lives of many people does not compensate to the positive effects. There are a lot of changes that could happen this is why it is important to have at least a knowledge or environmental awareness so as to know more about the impact of greenhouse effect to your future.
Caring for the environment will not require you to become an environmental activist, but just to know more about your environment. Think about the following first, if you know what is going to happen and the danger that your future grandchild will be faced with, would you not do anything now to prevent it from happening?
Even as an individual there is something that you can do no matter how small or insignificant it may seem. Planting trees, proper waste disposal or buying naturally formulated or green products is a good start. These small steps can be the start of a great importance of awareness in environment, so make sure that you be the first or among the many individuals that are taking care of the environment in anyway possible.