Ignorance Ruins the Environment

The earth at this time, is at a state of downfall in which the only people to blame is us. Global disasters and environmental issues are a huge sign of the earth’s deterioration. For instant, global warming, deforestation, and pollution are the planet’s worse enemies, therefore human beings are reckless in their decision-making to encounter this matter. The real problem is ignorance and lack of acceptance of this horrifying issue. What other severe problem that we can face nowadays that putts our future children’s lives in jeopardy? We need to take action and responsibility to save our planet.

First things first, as we all know how our community, including myself, tend to satisfy their needs by what we call “over consumption” of goods and services. These old habits need to be adjusted. Even thought it will be challenging but we need to adapt ourselves to respect the environment in order to reduce the amount wasted per each individual or every household. Every single person should take the liberty of complete the ecological footprint test that estimates your yearly consumption of carbon (home energy use and transportation), food, goods, services, housing. The result will reveal the amount wasted by your consumption and gives an accurate calculation of earths needed based on your means. After taking the test, it appears that if everyone on the planet lived my lifestyle, we would need 4.47 earths. Clearly my results are rather disappointingly and unsatisfactory towards my environment where I live in. Here is a small chart where it illustrates my footprint in global hectares:

Appendix 1

Just a brief background regarding myself as a consumer to describe how I have been affecting my environment through my own personal lifestyle. I consider myself as a below average consumer since I tend to be less demanding that other people. In comparison to my other friends which some of them are disgracefully spoiled by their parents, are more likely to obtain all they recommend, simply because they are used to a spendthrift habit. According to my footprint table illustrated above, it demonstrates that in my food consumption is the only category where I exceed my country average. However, I am trying to change my eating routine and make an effort to minimize my food portion to one large meal and a couple of light snacks per day. In addition, I need to cut down fast food and restaurant eating habit because it is not helping me to stay fit neither sustaining the environment.