How can we change our daily life in order to improve the quality of our environment? Currently, our so-called developed societies, in the name of progress, are depleting many natural resources and also polluting the air and our seas. That is why we have to ask ourselves, what can we do to improve it?
This is a Biology and Environmental Sciences project to make students use their spoken English. The main aim is creating a digital poster so as to make people aware of how they affect environment with their everyday activities and what they can do to stop harming the ecosystem. The second aim is doing an oral presentation for their classmates: Students will develop in full detail the ideas that appear in the poster.
Finally, to promote the idea that respecting nature is also in their self interest, the poster will be published in the web page of the High School.
Ruining the World
An ancient native-American is known to have said that “We have not inherited the world from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children”.
The Earth has approximately 7.700 million humans alive today, all of which contribute to a larger or lesser degree to the destruction of many of the remaining species, the equilibrium of the ecosystems, the aesthetic quality of the environment and the very health of humans themselves.
They accomplish this by two means: firstly, by multiplying their numbers so much that they take from other species an inordinate proportion of the environment’s capacity to sustain life, so that in order to exist they push out of existence other creatures that were previously in ecological and sustainable harmony with all others; and secondly, by making use of resources and producing waste well beyond what is necessary or reasonable.
Each of us has a responsibility to NOT contribute to this disaster beyond what is reasonably avoidable. After all, being careless about one’s damage to the world is an act of contempt towards all other species that have evolved through the eons to be here with as much a right to exist as we have, and is also an act of contempt towards all other humans, especially the future generations, who will have to live as a consequence in a world that is worse than the one we received.
