In today’s world, we have all been bombarded by messages and images of the many ways that we are hurting our environment and the way that this damage is affecting us. As a result, a lot pressure has been placed on modern, high-tech nations to ‘fix’ these problems. This has made the situation overwhelming and in some ways impossible, making the issues easier to ignore than to face them. The current environmental situations include; global warming, melting polar caps, breaks in the ozone layer, extinction of certain animal species and so forth. Though all of these are tough problems, we can still take a stand and make things better.

We must care for our environment and the many problems that plague our world. Though it may be easier to see political or economic problems as being more important than environmental problems, this isn’t exactly the case. For our world to even have the ability to face and deal with political and economic problems, we must have a stable and healthy environment. Therefore, for us to continue living the way we please, we must address the environmental issues that threaten our worlds stability.

Parents frequently speak of the desire to watch and control what their children eat to guarantee their health and wellbeing. Just as parents are concerned with what their children eat in order to keep them healthy, parents must also be concerned with the environment to ensure their childrens health. Afterall, clean air, free of toxins and pollutants, is also a large factor in keeping children healthy and safe. In fact, it was an incident involving children and their health (Love Canal), which acutally made environmental issues a major dilemma.

From the way that light pollution clouds our night skies, like a thick blanket preventing us from enjoying the beauty of the night, to the extinction of both plant and animal species, to the clinical effects of a damaged environment, we can no longer ignore the way our actions have affected our world. It is not impossible to help and make things better, even in small ways we can limit and decrease the amount of pollutants and damage, we release and create. Even through small actions like; using more energy efficient light bulbs and light fixtures, recycling, managing water and electricity use, we are helping the environment. There are many steps to be taken to reverse the damage we have done and they will take time. We should however, take responsibility and began to adjust our lives to a more economically conscious lifestyle, this way we can begin to improve our environment for both us and the generations to come.