The Environment
Environmental protection is necessary to us humans in many ways. For one, without the environment we would have no resources, food, water, and clean air to breathe. The Environment is like a shelter for us. it provides us with a place to reside and a place to take live in. Without the earths natural resources, we would merely starve and die off. Like evolutions, survival of the fittest, we as humans have a job to protect the planet as much as we can in order to conserve all of our resources. If we neglect to conserve what we have now, in a couple of years we will have nothing. The earth will begin to go to waste. All of the earths water will either be drunken up or polluted so badly that it is not safe for anyone to drink it. Events like these are what encourages so many to lend a helping hand and try to clean and protect what we have.
Earth Day is a day that was designed in order to celebrate the life of the earth. People all over the world join in a celebration to honor mother earth. They respect what the earth has given us, and in return take one day to honor and praise her.It was on that day that Americans made it clear that they understood and were deeply concerned over the deterioration of our environment and the mindless dissipation of our resources. That day left a permanent impact on the politics of America. It forcibly thrust the issue of environmental quality and resources conservation into the political dialogue of the Nation. That was the important objective and achievement of Earth Day. It showed the political and opinion leadership of the country that the people cared, that they were ready for political action, that the politicians had better get ready, too. In short, Earth Day launched the Environmental decade with a bang. (Nelson) After all these years Earth day is still very popular and the meaning of Earth day, as well as the Environment itself, has not changed.
The most important piece of environmental legislation in our history, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was signed into law on January 1, 1970. NEPA came about in response to the same public pressure which later produced Earth Day. "In some ways, NEPA may turn out to be the most influential of our environmental laws for it not only sets forth our basic national goals for environmental protection,but it also tells us that essential to achieving them is foresight." (Nelson) It is incrediblr to think that in the year 2000, more than half the world knows what the protection of the environmnet is and what they have to do in oreder to help keep it going on strong. The planet is slowly loodsing tits resources and its ability to fight back and maintain its strength. That is why we need to take the initiative and help make something of the earth.
A recent study conducted for the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that air pollution alone results in deaths costing the Nation $5 billion to $16 billion a year and disease costing about $36 billion a year. Efforts to clean up air, land, and water have yielded all of us inestimable benefits and will continue to do first environmental decade: The Environmental Revolution has altered our physical surroundings. Beyond that, it has worked remarkable changes in government, law, politics and economics. It has reshaped many people's philosophy of life and scale of values. In very practical terms, the Environmental Revolution is lengthening lives and lessening human misery by reducing the poisons in our air, water, and soil. Perhaps most importantly of all in a way not too many people have noted, the Environmental Revolution has revitalized the democratic process.
Greenpeace Web Server Statistics History from 09-02-97 -- 13-05-00 |
EPA Marks Success in Your Community, Challenges Ahead "EPA Plans to Introduce Sweeping Environmental Regulations Next Year" - Chemical Market Reporter. Nov. 9,1998 p.9 (1) "The EPA Fights Environmentalists" - Peter Downs. The Progressive. Sept. 1998 v.62 n9 p.14 |
- Greenpeace provides background information on many factors of the planet. Like, nuclear damage, water polltutants, etc... The United States Environmental Protection Agency -The Environmental Protection Agency provides statistics and information about the safety of the environment and what the average person can do in order to help out. NRCSE-The National Research Center for Statistics and the Environment -The National Research Center for Statistics and the Environment was created in order to create an analysis of the environmental concerns. -The mission of Target Earth is Serving the Earth, Serving the Poor.
They focus on those regions of the world that are most devastated by the
mix of human suffering and the destruction of the earth. The Environmental Protection Information Center -The Environmental Protection Center is a grassroots non-profit oganization actively working to protect endangered species and forest ecosystems on the California's North Coast.
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