What bothers me...

I guess going into this part of our assignment I already had the thought in my head that I would be talking about Fukushima but after reading about our increasing shortage of clean water, I would be lying if I said Fukushima is my greatest environmental concern. I mean, after all, without water what can we do? Nothing. We can't even continue to live. Air. Water. And I guess some type of food is what you need to live. I haven't heard of any oxygen shortages, so I guess our lack of water and the continuous neglect by people in power, and by many of us others would be my greatest environmental concern.

Me and the world around me...

When you have a child, you do everything in your power to protect and provide for them. You teach them, nurture them and you do so because they are yours. You feel that this beautiful being is here because you created it. There is pride in that and it's the same pride that Mother Nature feels with he creations, her children. As we live our daily lives, we should take a moment to really look around us. Look at the trees, look at the sky, the flowers, the animal, if you're at the beach look at the ocean. Look at them and contemplate on all of the things we do as human beings to harm Mother Nature and her children, her creations. For parents, how would we feel if we found that someone that we help daily was abusing our children? Now think about how Mother Nature feels.
See, much like our own bodies and the bodies of our children, the earth needs to be nurtured. We can’t expect our bodies, as humans, to be healthy if all that we consume is junk. If we abuse out bodies they will begin to fail. It’s likely that we’ll become lethargic; we’ll have no energy. The earth works the same way. We can’t continue to pollute it with all of the deadly materials and fumes we do and expect it to continue performing at its maximum capacity. Our excessive desires and lack of compassion are killing the world around us.
At the core of our existence as human beings is a desire to be accepted. We’re social creatures. Although we may see the world as a stagnant entity, or at least a slow moving, slow growing one, it’s actually extremely social. It has a desire to be accepted by the beings that call it home. It provides, it nurtures, it protects. It provides water, food, and sunlight and yet we abuse it. The relationship between human and earth is an abusive one that leads to resentment and a lack of compassion and affection. Soon enough, the earth will walk out on us.