The Importance of Water
Importance of Water:
"Our most important resource, yet most misused resource".
Gregory Drake
11036163
29/04/2013
Critical studies 3
INTRODUCTION
Humans and the environment.
Humans have been on this earth for thousands of years. We have learned to survive and adapt to our environmental surroundings. The relationship between the environment and us humans has changed drastically over the past few decades. Our ancestors and those before them, saw the environment as a haven which should be protected and not over used. They believed that humans and the environment were one, and needed one another to fully be complete. The environment was praised as the ruler of the earth, for humans had to adapt and comply to what ever mother nature had in store.
Our environment has been the base on which civilizations have build and expanded into strong and powerful nations. What we haven 't truly learned as a human race is that with great power comes great responsibility. Our environment is being destroyed every second, by cooperates, governments and people. We do not understand the implications of what we are doing to our environment. We need to realize as a planet that the environment is the be-all and the end-all to our survival as a human race. This is because with out our essential necessities such as water, sunlight and land. We would be no more than a failed species.
This is something us as humans have only started to understand. That our environment is crucial to our survival. Our rivers are slowly starting to dry up due to increasing effect of global warming over our planet. Pollution is slowly starting to have an effect on every single river and subsidiary around the world. Communities are continuously bathing and washing clothes in these rivers, which leaves harmful chemicals used in the soaps and washing powders. These chemicals slowly drift down the river, along where another community is living. This community with then use this water to drink and
"Our most important resource, yet most misused resource".
Gregory Drake
11036163
29/04/2013
Critical studies 3
INTRODUCTION
Humans and the environment.
Humans have been on this earth for thousands of years. We have learned to survive and adapt to our environmental surroundings. The relationship between the environment and us humans has changed drastically over the past few decades. Our ancestors and those before them, saw the environment as a haven which should be protected and not over used. They believed that humans and the environment were one, and needed one another to fully be complete. The environment was praised as the ruler of the earth, for humans had to adapt and comply to what ever mother nature had in store.
Our environment has been the base on which civilizations have build and expanded into strong and powerful nations. What we haven 't truly learned as a human race is that with great power comes great responsibility. Our environment is being destroyed every second, by cooperates, governments and people. We do not understand the implications of what we are doing to our environment. We need to realize as a planet that the environment is the be-all and the end-all to our survival as a human race. This is because with out our essential necessities such as water, sunlight and land. We would be no more than a failed species.
This is something us as humans have only started to understand. That our environment is crucial to our survival. Our rivers are slowly starting to dry up due to increasing effect of global warming over our planet. Pollution is slowly starting to have an effect on every single river and subsidiary around the world. Communities are continuously bathing and washing clothes in these rivers, which leaves harmful chemicals used in the soaps and washing powders. These chemicals slowly drift down the river, along where another community is living. This community with then use this water to drink and
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