Environment set.doc

Is life on Earth in danger?

Human is quite a strange creature. Although as a species he had appeared on earth not long ago, he was just a step to complete destruction of himself and his planet.

He claims to be the most intelligent amongst animals. But what animal attempts to destroy its own environment.
Within the last 200 years man was leading earth to ecological crisis, with which we have to deal nowadays. Pushed by technological development and unrestrained desire to discover, he didn't care about the planet's condition. It's sad, that the major part of important inventions, theories and technologies were simply fruit of armaments before both World wars. We have to be happy, that the efforts excellent scientists made during the Cold war can be now adopted in medicine and protection of environment.

Nowadays the hole in the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect persuaded man, that nature it not capable to absorb all his destructive impacts. We start to limit atmosphere pollution, use unleaded gasoline and exploit natural power sources like sun, wind and water. But the most important fact is that we start to cooperate. It's important if we want heal our planet.

Maybe I'm too optimistic, but from my point of view, nowadays things are going in the right direction. I don't know whether we can say, that life on earth is not in danger. Maybe the moment we will be on the edge of extinction is still to come. We have to remember that constant destruction of our own environment will lead our (poor) civilization to extermination. I just hope that the time we realize it is to come someday.

PROPER WASTE’S SELECTION
 

Taking out the rubbish isn’t our favourite almost daily routine. We empty our trashes from rubbish everyday. There’re, recycling paper, plastic containers, scrap or garbage. People want to get rid of them quickly and they leave them everywhere. However, some of them don’t think that they can recycle them. This way we’ll secure our environment and decrease number of chopping trees – demand for paper is really big. Thanks to forests we’ve got some air to breath.
What should we do to prevent the ecological catastrophe which can happen if we won’t stop littering environment? – people ask. Some of them feel resigned and helpless in face of that. But there is one the most effective way It’s:

Proper waste’s selection!

So, let’s start!
1. Recycling paper- unnecessary newspapers, magazines, paper and sometimes books are destroyed and thrown away. However, there’s better way. We can collect them and than recycle it.
2. Plastic containers (squashed) are components of similar boxes, packaging and also new building materials.
3. We can use garbage like fertilizer. This is good solution for people that have allotments. Just dig up a pit and put compost into it.
4. Scrap– is rich source of income, recyclable material and money.
On estates there are some special trashes for recycling paper, glass, scrap and plastic containers. It delights but even that most of us don’t use them. I hope that young people’s attitude will prevent the ecological catastrophe.
Early start makes easy stages.
I hope that after reading this article some people will understand what can happen in a next few dozen years and that we can change it, because
We didn’t inherit Earth from our ancestors, but we borrowed it from future generations.

How would you go about preserving the forests in your country?

Each year, millions of hectares of forest are damaged or destroyed by fire, insects and diseases. In Poland especially in the seventies there was noticed an excessive exploitation of forests.

That is why the present generation has to preserve the environment in order to leave it usable in the future. Most preferably the protection aiming to keep the forests' problems within acceptable limits should be started immediately. In my opinion there are plenty of possibilities. For example pests and diseases are the great danger for our forests, because they reduce wood quality and often kill trees. Prevention and early detection are the best approach to pest problems. Planting disease-resistant and pest-resistant sub-species is a typical prevention measure, which can be built into government forest management plans. To detect pest and disease problems, children should already become familiar with the general warning signs of diseases and pests currently active in the area, and particularly with those diseases and pests which attack trees in the near forests.

Another aspect of protecting the forests is fire prevention. This means not only protecting them, but also homes, recreation areas, wildlife habitats and watersheds. The best protection against fire is to identify potential fire hazards and eliminate them. Taking further precautions like careful storing gasoline and other hazardous fuels to minimise fire danger can contribute here. Obviously one should remember that early detection of fire would limit damage. Thus, we should ensure that even children know whom to call when they spot a fire. When fire risks are high, regular ground patrols and fire towers prepared by the government can allow earlier detection.

In conclude the above still the most important undertaking is to educate children at school how important forests are and how they are damaged every day.