Are You Green Enough?


by Beverly Saltonstall - Date: 2010-02-12 - Word Count: 506 Share This!

When the majority of us think about the harm being done to the environment we typically point our fingers at big industries. True, it is a fact that they are doing more harm than good in terms of their impact on our environment, but the truth is that we, as individuals, are also doing our share of harm.

In order to learn how to do your part to save the environment, you will have to first fully grasp what you are doing to damage it - even if you aren't a large industry. The truth is that a great deal of the damage being done to the environment is less from big industries as it is from a world full of humans who do very little to save non-renewable resources. These resources come from the earth, and in the methods of getting those resources, the earth is being destroyed.

What this means is that each time you drive your vehicle, you are hurting the environment. First, the car actually pollutes the air, and second the resources required to cause that vehicle to operate, come from the earth (fossil fuels, water, and gasoline).

Each any time you making use of an aerosol spray, you are also harming the environment. Aerosol's make use of CFC's, or greenhouse gases known as chlorofluorocarbons. These chemicals are altering the atmospheric conditions by trapping large amounts of heat.

Every single time you compose a letter on paper, or make out your shopping list, you are harming the environment. Paper comes from trees, and a lot of people today view trees as renewable resources, for the reason that you can always plant more trees. The fact is that we are cutting those trees down faster than we are replacing them.

The similar thing is true every time you light up a cigarette. Smoking a cigarette harms the environment much more than generating that grocery list.

You may honestly assume that you are currently doing your part in saving the environment, because you have a beautiful lawn. You always keep your lawn absolutely trimmed. You have trees and hedges, which are also perfectly trimmed. But whenever you start one of those gasoline powered lawn machines, you are harming the environment big time.

The ways in which that you are probably doing more harm than good go on and on. In reality, if you brought a expert into your home for a day and asked what you were doing to harm the environment, they would most probably tell you that almost everything that you were doing was bad!

If that is the case, how can you possibly change your evil environmental destructive ways? Well, most of us are not willing to give up the comforts in life, and in fact, you really don't have to go to those extremes. What we need to do is be more mindful of the resources that we are consuming, the energy that we are making use of, and how it has an effect on the earth as we know it, as well as the future of the earth.


Beverly Saltonstall is a green living author offering tips and advice on going green. Her website http://AGreenLady.com gives easy to follow information for going green at home.n
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