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Green Earth - Understanding The Concept Of Sustainable Development

by Tommy Linsley

"Every fourth day we are adding one million human beings to our population". After hearing this statement, how you have felt? That's the burden we the human beings are putting on the natural resources of our planet. We have already made many animals extinct and driving rest to the extinction. The unplanned growth has resulted in cutting down of forest, blasting off of mountains, mining of minerals and metals, using up of petroleum resources at a very fast rate and last but not the least, an exponential increase in pollution.

 

The question is what we are going to leave for our future generations - the barren lands, vehicles but no petrol, factories with no power to run them, mountains of concrete and jungles of sky touching building? Can it be recognized as development? Is this development that can be sustained? We all are aware of the negative answer.

 

As we moved on, we realized how much deforestation had taken place. The forests had been cleaned up to create cities, villages and agricultural land. The result-loss of habitat for wild animals, killings of animals, natural resources being exploited like anything, all round pollution- in water and air. This is what we have got from our development.

 

Can we survive with what we have been doing? Isn't it that after wildlife and forests, it's our number next? We are very much part of the ecological system that constitutes the other two. We all are a part of the same food chain. Some are at the higher rungs and others at the lower ones. We can't survive without each other.  If the ecological balance has been disturbed, then there is no guarantee of human lives also. "We haven't inherited this planet from our ancestors but we have borrowed it from our future generations". Shall we be able to pass on the same Mother Nature to them or we will be blamed for our shortsightedness?

 

The precise and unpleasant answer is 'yes'. Imagine your visit to zoo. The teacher told you- Look at that animal- its Mammoth. It's not found any more. Same way, a day will come when the teacher will show a picture of Petrol can and tell that it's no more found. How you plan to run your vehicles?

 

Most of the deforestation has been caused due to energy needs. It is the need of the hours that we should focus on non-conventional and renewable energy resources like using solar power to create solar energy. In many countries, wind power has been used to generate electricity through wind power. These kinds of resources are never ending.

 

Growing pollution has also been a cause of Global Warming. The result-Mountains are becoming snow less; even at North Pole the polar cap has melted. This melted snow is causing rise in sea levels, floods in rivers and catastrophes like Tsunami. Isn't our lopsided development responsible for this? When we disturb the ecological balance by killing animals and cutting down trees, we are destabilizing the food chain cycle and doing a great disservice to humanity.

 

It's now or never. The choice is ours and the decision is ours. What type of future do we plan for us and for our children depends on what we choose today - Development or Sustainable development? Our actions will decide our future, the very future of our earth.

 

An environmentalist and an internet marketer, Tommy Linsley has come up with new site called SustainGreenPower.com with complete details on alternative energy resources, global warming sustainable development and much more. Visit http://SustainGreenPower.com and get yourself a free copy of the report "Our Planet Is In Danger! The Consequences Revealed"


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Bethany B. Committed   Affiliate Marketer/Freelance Writer
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