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We borrow the earth from our children and must take action to sustain resources for future generations. Environmental degradation is caused by issues like global warming, deforestation, overpopulation, and pollution. Global warming is directly caused by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and causes problems like rising sea levels and more intense weather. Deforestation occurs mainly for agriculture and grazing land and reduces forest cover. With a booming population, there is a risk that the planet cannot support the number of people. Pollution damages the environment and makes life difficult. We must conserve resources like trees and water to protect the earth.
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- 2. There is a variety of reasons to go green, but most come back to supply and demand. We have a limited amount of resources available and more and more people using them up. If we want our future generations to enjoy the same standard of living we've experienced, we need to take action by sustaining our resources and reducing environmental degradation...
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- 5. Deforestation is clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area, but swaths the size of Panama are lost each and every year. Forests are cut down for many reasons, but most of them are related to money or to people’s need to provide for their families The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture. Farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting crops or grazing livestock..
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- 7. Pollution Pollution is the introduction of a contaminant into the environment. It is created mostly by human actions, but can also be a result of natural disasters. Pollution has a detrimental effect on any living organism in an environment, making it virtually impossible to sustain life. There are total of six types of pollution: •Air Pollution •Water Pollution •Land Pollution •Noise Pollution •Radioactive Pollution •Thermal Pollution
- 8. We should conserve trees: •Onetreeprovidesenoughoxygenfortwopeople •TropicalRainforestscoverjust2%ofEarth'sland surface •Everytwosecondsweloseanareaofrainforestthe sizeofafootballfield We should always conserve water: • Only3% of theEarth's water is drinkable. • Mostofusleavethetapon whilst cleaning ourteeth this wastes 9litres of wateraminute. • Manypeopleinpoor countriesuseonly10litres in a wholeday forall their needs.
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