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It's All About Change
For the past years, water scarcity, climate change & global warming has been an ongoing discussion throughout time. These environmental issues have caused calamities, disasters and even the problems that we encounter in our everyday lives. Our world is continuously changing, such that our earth is changing it climate. As days,weeks,years pass by our climate is becoming hotter and hotter. In our society today, we often forget about the things and people in our surroundings and only think of what could benefit us. Now that is the problem we are currently experiencing in today’s time, we become careless as we progress. We fail to remember how important caring for our environment is very essential to our lives. Through the stimulations I was able to realize how I am greatly affecting to the destruction of our mother earth. It made me realize that how one single act can drastically affect the situation of our surroundings. As a student of the Advance Environmental class, this activity was very relevant to me because it made me gain new knowledge about certain things and it caused me to become more aware of what I should do and not to do. Being in this class this made me more curious on how I could help the environment even in my own simple way. These simulations enabled me to understand how I could change my lifestyle for the betterment of our environment.
Being able to do these two simulations we were able to realize how we were greatly affecting our environment and on how these activities were damaging to other mother earth. Through the Water Footprint calculator we were able to discover how our actions and activities were partly responsible with the lessening of our water resources and massive decrease in our water supply. While the second simulation which is the Climate change activity, made us think critically of what should be the best strategy to decrease the effects of climate change. With the help of these simulations we were able to realize that we play an important role in combatting climate change. Since we humans are also the reasons why the effects of climate change has been increasingly evident in our world. We should become conscious of the fact that we ourselves should make a change to slowly lessen the impacts of the negative activities that we do. As stewards of nature we should not add to the destruction of our environment but we should make our world a better by taking action to these global issues.
I believe that we should start making a change for our benefit and the benefit of our environment. Climate change has been an ongoing problem throughout the years, even in the beginning era’s, climate change has always been present. I realized that climate change is a very serious problem that should be acted upon immediately. If we don’t start now it is possible that our future generations would not be able to see the beauty of the environment that we are able to see today. That they wouldn’t be able to experience the joy of having a safe and peaceful environment. Saving mother earth by slowly decreasing the effects of climate change should be taken seriously. If we are not serious about saving our environment we wouldn’t be able to achieve any progress, we would still continue to be careless of our destructive ways
Based from my Water Footprint calculator I use 2025 gallons/day this is equivalent to me using 14 175 gallons/day. Drinking water comes from 2 sources which is ground and surface water. Ground water comes from rainwater or the water coming from the snow, it undergoes the process of precipitation these waters fill up spaces. Saturation zones are present in different areas the are zones that have subsurfaces that are saturated with water. With the help of Aquifers it make the water readily consumable and potable it contains layers of gravel and sand. These aquifers are considered geologic formations. When the water is purified and decontaminated it runs through a pipe and goes into a storage tank. The storage tank contains several pipes that distribute the allocated water into different infrastructures and homes. Surface waters fills rivers,lakes & wetlands, etc.which is also caused by the precipitation, all of these are natural bodies of water. Similar to ground waters it also goes through pipes and to different houses and infrastructures.
The strong impact of climate change is that it resulted us to experience different calamities and negative effects. Specifically it intensified and somehow altered the water cycle from it’s original state. Such that there was an increase in temperature because of the greenhouse gases that were present in our atmosphere. One global issue lead to another, for example because of the excessive use of machines and increase in factories this results to more greenhouse gases that is being produced into our atmosphere. This would result to global warming would eventually result to climate change. We need to remember that everything is connected. We should value each and animal, plant, human being around us. Climate change also causes rainstorms and typhoons that results to loss of lives, extreme flooding, loss of shelters and homes, decrease in livestock and amount of crops produced.
Water is essential in our lives because without it we wouldn’t be able to survive. Water gives us life, it gives us the capability to do the things we are doing today. Imagine a life without water and it’s end result would also be a life without anyone and anything. Our body is mostly composed of water, that’s why it is essential in every living organism to have water. However, we sometimes take water for granted. We still continue to waste our resources knowing that we are already experiencing scarcity in water. That’s why we should be aware of how what is a necessity for us. We depend on water for our survival and for the existence of other organisms. Water has shaped our landscape, through water we are able to live a happy and healthy life by having various landscapes like mountains and hills, having rich and healthy soil especially for agricultural purposes. While it helped us shape our physical/ cultural environment enabling plants to produce fruits and vegetables that our body needs in order for us to be healthy and survive.
In a nutshell, as a part of the Advance Environmental Education class we should take part in caring for our environment. We should always be reminded of how we are all interconnected and on how every life form is important. That as stewards of God’s creation we should start making a change, to stop climate change and decrease the negative activities that we do that further damages our environment. By working hand in hand we can gradually achieve our goal, and that is to save our Mother Earth.
