Sunday, April 25, 2010

My pledge to mother earth

We all know that human beings depend on the ecosystem to survive. Plants, animal and humans interact with one another in the environment to balance the ecosystem. Recently, we all know that our environment had been badly polluted. This will leads to many environmental problem, such as global warming, thinning of ozone layer, greenhouse effect, acid rain, melting of iceberg and some other adverse problems as well. Do you know why our environment had been polluted? It is because the rapid development in the field of technology, industrial processes and deforestation for housing development. As long as the human population increases, the human’s basic needs that require a lot of rough materials from the earth also increases. Apart from that, human are actually destroying the earth by chopping down all the trees and eventually destroy the whole forest. Global warming was seen to be a serious problem among the others. Nowadays, the temperature of our surrounding had increase by 2℃ whereas in some countries likes Taiwan, the citizens are suffering from heavy snowing which decrease the temperature of the surrounding until -25℃. This is quite terrifying people, I myself cannot imagine that how they lived in that low temperature. Many countries suffering from heavy rain and flash flood especially those countries that located near to the seas. The iceberg in the South Pole and North Pole also started to melt due to the world temperature that had increased. We had to be responsible for what we had already done to our precious mother earth. So, we have to play our role to protect our mother earth, the only place that we could live on in the universe.
What do you think we can do to protect our earth? These are a few pledges from me to my mother earth, for example, we should throw the rubbish into the rubbish bin instead of throwing the rubbish else where, don’t you agree with me? Everyday, every time, there is quite a number of irresponsible people who had thrown out the rubbish through their car window. Some of them even threw banana skin and rambutan skin as well as the non biodegradable materials such as plastic bags, plastic food containers. Everyone of us are responsible to take good care of the environment that we lived in, therefore we should throw the rubbish into he rubbish bin.
Apart from that, we should not waste any water that is supplied from one house to another and practices it as a habit in our daily life. This is an example that we can practice, when we are washing our face or brushing our teeth, we do not let the water running down from the tap. We are supposed to collect the water in a basin or glass so there is less water wastage. By the way, after we washed and rinsed the rice, the water should be collected and reused it. We can use it to water our plants, the plants will get the nutrient such as minerals from the water. This will reduce a lot of water wastage in our daily life.
Besides that, we can do some planting of flower and tree. This will benefit us because the oxygen gases in the surrounding are produced by the plants, therefore we need a lot of plants instead of tall buildings. The buildings will not produce oxygen but the green plants do. The green plants also provide us with the fresh air for us to breathe in. The plants prevent the land from collapses during heavily rainy day. So, we should plants more green plants especially big trees to regulate the temperature of our surrounding.
Furthermore, the concept 3R’s are refers to RECYCLE, REUSE and REDUCE. We should practice this concept in our daily life as well, for example, the old newspapers, the used exam paper, glass bottle, aluminum cans, tins as well as the plastics bottles, all this can be recycled. Some of the waste materials even can sell to earn some extra incomes. Some of them not even care for the environment, they just simply burn the recyclable waste materials and the soot that is given out after the burning of the materials will cause air pollution. It will leads to an environmental problem again. The burning of the plastics materials can endanger the ecosystem and the poisonous substances can be released into the atmosphere and this poisonous air can be breathed in by anyone of us.
Do you know where does our electricity came from? It had to be generated by the hydroelectric system and others system before it reach our house. We should appreciate the electricity that is supplied to us rather than wastes it, for example, we should off the switch when we did not use the electricity. This will saved a lot of wastages. When there is no using the fan or air conditioner, we can switch off the power and other than this, we also can prevents short circuit. So please do not waste the electricity. I have to conclude that we should save our earth by practicing the good habits so that we can live in a better environment.