I need 20 (if possible) reasons on why we must take care and protect our planet and the environment.?

Question

I need 20 (if possible) reasons on why we must take care and protect our planet and the environment.?

Answer 1

1) Personal responsibility and accountability

2) Intelligent creatures do not soil their own nest

3) We need clean air to breathe in order to live

4) We need clean water to drink in order to live

5) We need clean soil in order to grow uncontaminated food to eat in order to live

6) Chemicals in our environment gradually and eventually end up in our fat cells and in our muscular tissue, causing all sorts of damage and eroding our health

7) Overdevelopment destroys animal habitat

8) Animal habitat is necessary for the animals to survive

9) The survival of animals is necessary for the survival of man

10) Overdevelopment destroys top soil, due to run-off and erosion

11) Air pollution directly increases asthma in children and elderly, and exacerbates health problems in healthy adults

12) Healthy people are productive people, a productive society is a healthy society

13) Natural surroundings - trees, vegetation, singing birds, etc. - are as necessary for the mental health of a population as food and water

14) All life is connected, the Web of Life cannot be touched in one area without another area vibrating from the consequences.

15) Economic progress comes from well-thought-out planning for the community, as opposed to raping and pillaging of the resources which only benefit a handful of parasites

16) Respect for life is integral to a civilized society

17) Understanding the interaction between all species teaches people how to use resources wisely and responsibly

18) A geographic area can only support a specific number of organisms...overpopulation is highly detrimental to the environment and to the human race

19) Crime is more pervasive in overpopulated concrete jungles as opposed to less populous, green spaces

20) Because we own it.

Answer 2

#1: God created it. how would you like if I came to your house and made a mess?

  #2 Humans can live on it

  #3 If we dont..... there would be no cell phones

  #4 If we dont no laptops.....

#5 Thats all i can think of

Answer 3

Animals, wild and domestic won't have a healthy enviroment to live in.

We will lose the chance to advance further with technology if there is no space to exist.

Agriculture (feeding the masses) will dwindle.

Answer 4

So that life here (human and non human) can continue.

Answer 5

I don't know how old you are, or if you have - or may plan to have - a family someday. But, assuming that you one day will have beautiful grandchildren or great-grandchildren of your own, there are myriad reasons why you should want to protect our planet and take care of our environment:

Look into the future and assume your beautiful little grandchild someday crawls up on your lap wearing a gas-mask-like device because it's the only way (s)he can breathe fresh air;

When (s)he look into your eyes and asks why there isn't sufficient fresh water to drink, will you be honest and tell her that it's because your generation squandered it all?

As she scans the smog-filled horizon, will you have the courage to tell her it was all those smoke-belching factories, vehicle emissions and chemicals released into the air that caused the air to be so thick with grime?

And when he asks if you ever saw a polar bear, will you be able to explain that they became extinct because of mankind's arrogance, ignorance, negligence, sloth and hubris that influenced us to believe that polar bears weren't as important to the planet as were people?

Will you be able to explain why domestic oil exploration disrupted the caribou migration patterns and eventually decimated remote Eskimo tribes in the ANWR region just so we could drive around in gas-guzzling SUVs and Hummers?

Will you admit that you were just too lazy to REuse, REduce and REcycle and didn't really care whether landfills were overflowing with human's garbage that could have been made into new products instead of being left to biodegrade over decades?

And when your wonderful grandchild is diagnosed with a rare, terminal cancer, how will you apologize for destroying mangrove forests inhabited by poisonous frogs whose venom might have been able to cure her cancer?

Will you tell your grandchild about how it was more important for you to eat 'fast food' than preserve the rain forests of the Amazon, and how all those trees were chopped down simply to provide grazing land for cattle that were eventually turned into cheap Big Macs?

Will you still proclaim that you're a 'Christian' or a 'Buddhist' or a 'Muslim' who believes in some kind of 'god' or 'intelligent designer', yet you fought among each other and decimated the Earth while you engaged in all kinds of 'hate' wars, 'holy' wars or killing sprees?

When your grandchild asks to visit a beach, how will you explain that they've all eroded because we wanted million-dollar homes right on the oceanfront instead of preserving the natural wonderment of where water meets the land?

How will you be able to justify to your grandchild how (s)he won't be able to eat fresh fish because your generation over-fished the oceans, allowed oil spills to choke the life from the waterways, and killed most of the krill, coral and other sea life that sustained ocean life?

As you try to protect her from the horrendous flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes and heat waves up and down both coasts of both major oceans, how will she react when she discovers you paid no attention to a scientific event called 'global warming' that experts warned about while you continued living a lifestyle of creature comforts without regard for the future of the planet?

Will you laugh as heartily then at the death of manatees as you did when you ran over them with your speedboat just for the 'sport' of it?

How will you describe the beauty of a flowered meadow or a wheat field when all (s)he sees is asphalt parking lots, abandoned steel and glass buildings and ribbons of endless concrete highways?

As she sits down to a hearty meal of chemically-induced artificially-flavored mashed potato mush, will you dare tell her how you used to eat 'real' mashed potatoes?

Will you tell her why mountains no longer have peaks because mining companies obliterated the majestic icons while stripping the Earth to find more coal?

Will you confess to her that the ocean is filled with [petroleum-based] plastic water bottles because you just didn't have the time to properly dispose of them?

And what about being good stewards of the Earth, over which we were given dominion? Stewardship should have mean more than squandering all of Earth's resources for our own comfort and convenience.

Why, if she asks, did we believe that tsetse flies, penguins, glaciers, wetlands, Venus fly traps, lakes, farm land, birds, wild boars, cranberry bogs, natural great plains, swamps, remote tribal villages or elephants weren't as important to the sustenance and survival of the planet as was man?

Why did we ruthlessly kill each other because of differences in creed, color or culture instead of learning to live among each other in peace and harmony? If (s)he asks, you might have to explain how hatred, bias, bigotry and prejudice were all part of a global political landscape that paid little heed to the natural order of things in our world and our world's environment. You might want to let her know that - at one time - native American Indians and other tribal societies actually considered the land sacred and believe that land belonged to everyone, to be shared for the common good instead of being parcelled out as "real estate" so that some men could 'make a buck' and others became tenants.

I don't know if that's twenty, but it's a start...-RKO-  06/11/08

Answer 6

I can only think of one

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So the human race can continue to survive on it

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