Watch the following video in regards to the impact humans have on the environment and address the following ideas:
* What implications do your choices have on the environment?
*Which do you think will have the greatest impact on the environment and why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zPcR7wgh0c&feature=related
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ReplyDeleteThe earth is in a horrible position right now. Overpopulation and pollution are destroying the planet as we speak. Many resources are being wasted and used improperly. We think as though we are the only people on this planet. As said in a popular movie, humans are like insects- they use up all the resources in one area and when they can no longer be supported, they spread to other areas to destroy the resources in.
ReplyDeleteI think that our choices have a huge impact on the environment. For example, if we choose not to cut the rings soda cans come in, birds and small fish can get caught in them and die. I think pollution will have the greatest impact, though. Air pollution, water pollution, all pollutions are bad. There is no benefit to pollution, it only harms or kills.
ReplyDeleteMy choices to throw things away instead of recycle them can kill animals with chemicals. Also if you do not take extra measures to protect animals they can and will die. I believe that water pollution will be the downfall of our planet. This is because all things are dependent on water to survive.
ReplyDeleteThe implications our choices have in the environment could be that people live shorter lives because of all the pollution in the air, water, and land.
ReplyDeleteI think water pollution will have a greater impact on the environment because if the water is polluted it can pollute the ground and air.
I think that air pollution will eventually effect our daily life the most, because of the picture you see in this video with the school children that have face masks on. Eventually that'll happen to us. Of course there's the water pollution problem. People who get their water from the tap will be effected. Recycling plastic materials could prevent dumping into the ocean, or at least could reduce it a good amount. If we all recycled our plastic and metal materials, we could help with water pollution, and (by making less plastic in factories) air pollution.
ReplyDelete1. I would probably not be helping the enviorment with my lifestyle because I always would try to do my best like turn off the lights when I leave the room or do something to help save electricity. I always say it's so sad what people are doing to the environment but i never realize how much of a factor i am to the environment especially because yesterday when i did the test it said if everyone were to live my lifestyle we would need 9 Earths which in my opinion is very disappointing.
ReplyDelete2. I think the factors of air and water pollution will cause the biggest problem because you need air and water to live and by polluting your natural resources it's like polluting yourself.
(continued) furthermore, I think that I take the resources on the planet for granted. I believe that I am somewhat part of said impact in the video. The problem that will make the biggest impact on this planet in my opinion will be overpopulation. The population of the planet is expected to hit 7 billion next year.
ReplyDeleteWhere will all of the needed resources for more and more humans come from? The planet, soon enough, will not be able to support us if we keep heading in the direction we're going in now.
The choices I make to help the planet are sort of natural like if I see someone putting something into a trash can and they miss I would pick it up and put it in the trash can. This is just an example on a smaller scale and the bad news is that there are people out there who don't pick up oil from the ocean. It's horrible either way. I think picking up the trash which is very simple will be the greatest impact just because it is the simplest thing to do and if people can't pick up a piece of trash then what makes you think they will pick up oil in an ocean?
ReplyDeleteMy choices, along with everyone else's on this planet, combined are destroying the earth, piece by piece. Sooner or later, it will be too late to fix this. For instance, my family drives a Prius Hybrid. It saves plenty of gas, gets about 50 miles to the gallon, and money because we don't have to "fill up" as much. Although it does save gas and everything, it does still pollute the air. Just think, if about 1 million of the 1.6 million people in Phoenix drive a car about 50-100 miles AT THE LEAST a day. Just think how much air pollution that is. I have asthma, and some days I can't go outside because the air is so thick and polluted. Thanks for listening! (:
ReplyDeleteI try to keep my impact on the eviroment as low as possible. I do take part in the pollution, as does everyone else. I recycle properly and save energy all the time. I use energy efficient lint bulbs and I save water. All these actions add up to create a very low impact on the environment whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteTo me, habitat loss has the greatest impact on the environment because it covers almost all grounds. Water pollution causes the loss of habitat to marine wildlife, and landfills cause the clearing of forest, leaving the wildlife to die off. This affects the food chain and the balance of nature in that area.
I believe that we should help our environment because we need to help keep it in a condition where it is safe for us to live. This is our home and we need t o protect it. I think we should recycle our used plastics and glass so that we do not need to throw them into a big pile and waste space that we could be using for oth things, more resourceful things.
ReplyDeleteI think that the one thing that we can all do to help our environment is recycling. So many people think that they can just throw their trash and the sidewalk but that is just adding to the pollution.
Well my choices impact the environment, but i think in a good way becaus i recycle, use reusable water bottles, throw trash away responsibly, i mean i don't just throw it out the window when im in the car, and i always turn off or unplug the lights and small appliances so the choices i make do help the environment. I think that the greatest impact on the environment is that people just don't recycle paper plastic and glass the way they need to, paper is made out of trees and if we keep chopping down trees and then don't recycle the the paper then the habitat for so many animals is ruined and then the animals become endangered or even worse extinct. We use to much plastic, especially plastic bottles, and plastic is made out of petroleum which is natural reasorce and when it's gone it's gone, and the easiest way to stop the dependency on plastic bottles is to use reusable ones.
ReplyDeleteThe choices we make everyday have turned the planet that we once knew as our beautiful home with luscious grasslands and jungles into a foreign-land filled with bittersweet sunsets filled with pollution and residue from landfills that have killed animals and, temporarily, our future. A plethora of people refuse to change simply because they are scared of change, but ignorant to the fact that the world around them is constantly changing. This is what is holding us back, and will permanently make a mark that neither man nor animal can reverse. We all think that everyone and thing around us needs to change, but we do not realize that we need "to be the change we wish to see in the world."
ReplyDeleteFor all the things that it has a done for us, why can't we return the favor? If everyone used greener products then we may have a chance. When my group and I took the quiz, if everyone lived the way we do, we would need 4.88 earths. This really got to me. This is encouraging me to become greener. I think that my family is green, but I am still contributing to the pollution that is harming the earth. Just the commute driving everywhere is pollution the air. I make good choices because I use stainless steel water bottles, I ride the bus home, when we go to the grocery store, we use cloth bags, we have a compost for scraps of fruits,veggies, etc, when we do the air dry the clothing, and we recycle.
ReplyDeleteI think that the greatest impact is a tie between water pollution and deforestation. We need fresh water in order to survive. Humans are made up of water. We need it to survive. Also deforestation is an issue because trees produce the oxygen that we need to survive. Without it the human race would parish. The rainforest is shrinking everyday. We need to protect it and the things living inside. So plants that live in the rainforest can have unknown cures for future diseases. Save the Earth!
By changing my lifestyle to be more "green" will not help the earth or protect it, only prevents it from being destroyed...but not by much. The action with the greatest impact on our ecosystem is killing animals because if they are hunted too much the balance is thrown out of wack and the animals above them on the chain has nothing to eat and there is too much of the thing that the dead animals eat.
ReplyDeleteThis video really made me think about what's happening to the Earth right now, and what we could do to help it. We could do things like not polluting our air and oceans, and also doing smaller things like not littering and recycling. I think these things have a huge impact on the Earth, and by doing these things, we could help the Earth, and all the animals and people on it.
ReplyDeleteMy choices can make good or bad implications on the environment. Whether it's just choosing to recycle or turning things off when you're not using them, every decision makes a difference. Some more than others. I think that what will make the biggest impact is if people pick up trash/recycle. Pollution is a big thing and when we throw garbage around it pollutes the earth. If we clean up after ourselves we can eliminate a really bad thing. That would make a huge impact in the world.
ReplyDeleteThe world we knew will probably never be the same again because of the choices we made and continue to make. Even though we know that the Earth is being destroyed, some people try to help, but the efforts have been fuitless so far because of the "need" we have established of luxuries. The air we breath, the water we drink, and the land we live on has been polluted rapidly as we have become used to the objects at will someday destroy our world.
ReplyDeleteWhile the condition the Earth is in is indeed quite bad, people do need to remember what the major causes of this are. In third world countries, farmers burn forests so their cows have fields to graze. People are chopping through rain forests in Brazil to feed their families.
ReplyDeleteMy point is that while spending hours recycling cans is in the right spirit, among the billions of humans alive today making pity videos and protesting to the wrong people isn't helping much. Sorry if this is out of context, this is just what I seem to be seeing. c:
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ReplyDeleteI think the implications from my actions are some good because I try to recycle and save power but we all make a negative carbon footprint. Even when we drive cars we emit pollutants into the atmosphere and drain our oil resources. Even when we light our houses we are draining earths precious energy sources.
I think water pollution will have the most impact because every living thing needs water to live, and if we are polluting our fresh water supply, we could face extinction
To continue on with all of our daily lives. People need to get to work and get to places for food. The Earths destruction is inevitable. I believe that air pollution will have the greatest impact on the Earth because almost every human on this earth drives or makes a commute in which they pollute the air. We can only slow down the time that it will take for the Earth to die.
ReplyDeleteThe earth is in a lot of trouble in these times because of pollution, habitat destruction, poaching, ect.. We can limit these bad actions in little by recycling, not being careless, thinking about the environment, or turning off electronics while not in use. I think that habitat destruction will have the most impact overall because every animal has a role in everyday life and one animal being exctinct can disrupt a lot of things like a domino effect.
ReplyDeleteMy implications on the environment aren't exactly the strongest and some of my choices don't even help it. A carbon footprint will always follow nort only me, but everybody. Recycling and energy saving fixtures do help, but a larger pollution will always over exceed that. Using these fixtures do help, but it might be a little too late to save the Earth from all this pollution.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest impact in my opinion is the air pollution through coal factories and oil mills. These are devastating to the environment because of our huge need for them.
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ReplyDeleteWhat implications do your choices have on the envIronment?
ReplyDeleteThe implications our choices have on the environment is that probably more negative than positive in the fact that even though we are becoming more and more aware of the problem, we are still continuing with our manifest destiny in regards to our advancement into the future. We are going to fast with new inventions that capture our fancy for us to want to stop, for anything. It's when we have time do we stop to look at what we have left in our wake of advancement.
Which do you think will have the greatest impact the environment?
I think the wasting and destroying of ALL our natural resources (which s lot of the options were about this) that will have the most effect. Poaching endangered animals, pollution, landfills, these are all wasting and destroying our natural resources that will have the most impact.
Nearly all of my choices have an implication on the environment. Although I hate to admit it, many of my choices have a negative implication. I almost never turn off the computer monitor when I am done using it, and my family doesn't normally use fluorescent lightbulbs, and we struggle to remember to turn off lights. My family wastes lots of energy. We recycle on a regular basis and use energy efficient appliances, but overall, I have a negative effect on the environment .
ReplyDeleteI think that recycling will have the greatest impact on the environment. When we recycle, we get so much back, and failing to recycle wastes something that coiled have been reused, but instead, we waste a resource like plastic which contains petroleum, which is a valuable resource.
Though this video is merely a slideshow with some text, it certainly made me think. Some people refuse to think that our environmental problems were caused entirely by humans, but they are. (Well, humans and a little cow methane that's polluting the air, but that's beside the point.)
ReplyDeleteMy personal choices are "green" for the most part, but the entire population's choices aren't. Some people go to extremes to be "green", so they somewhat cancel out the people who aren't. If everyone was a slob who didn't care about the environment, Earth would have been completely destroyed years ago.
I think water pollution has the most impact on the Earth. Every living organism needs fresh water to survive, and we're polluting and destroying the little amount of fresh water (isn't it like three or four percent of all Earth's water?) that we still have. And even saltwater pollution is bad. That provides fish and other organisms who live in or around those bodies of water a bad habitat full of things that are dangerous for their health.
I have a mixed impact on our environment. Sometimes positive and sometimes negative. I go to school sometimes carpooling and sometimes walking, and doing that can reduce your carbon footprint a lot. If every kid in the district walked, biked, or took a bus, there would sure be a lot less smog in the air each morning. Sometimes the littlest things we do can help the environment like recycling and turning off lights each time we leave the room. Or it can be real difficult and even expensive like installing solar panels. However, if we do a lot of small tasks, it can easily make up for the big ones.
ReplyDeleteFactories and plants have the biggest impact in the environment. Some choices big companies will make like building in the middle of nature where nothing is, is just unnecessary and wrong. If companies are going to build a huge factory, they should put it in a major city. Cars as well have a big impact on the environment, but that's getting better in time with hybrid, smart, and electric cars. Some smart cars in fact, are 60 miles per gallon. The Earth isn't in horrible condition, we just can do a better job taking care of it.
Everybody has a carbon foot print there own size. And everybody gets there's a different way weather it is pollution or habitat destruction, they all hurt our planet in there own way. But some things help like carpooling or riding your bike to get places. The greatest impact on our world by the people I think will be carpool or community service when people clean up the environment, because people are starting to take global warming very seriously.
ReplyDeleteI help the environment and hurt it in some ways. I help it by having a habit of turning off lights and recycling. I also have hurt the environment through littering. I think air pollution will impact the environment the most be cause people, animals, and other organisms breath the air. The air pollution also hurts the atmosphere which protects us from heat etc. Water pollution is also bad because organisms need water to survive.
ReplyDeleteIf I choose not to recycle items meant for recycling, or if I choose to be someone who wastes all the materials and energy they come by, it's definitely going to have a big impact. All that trash is going to have to go somewhere, and when the existing landfills are full, we'll be invading more space that should be used to help the environment. This will just destroy it until it's gone.
ReplyDeleteI really think that the massive amount of material we trash every day is what has the most impact. Just one American produces about 4.4 pounds of trash every single day! That's 29 pounds in one week and 1,600 pounds per year! But Americans aren't even the biggest trash producers. Mexico produces 30% more trash than we do per household.
Now, think about how much paper, plastic, and otherwise recyclable materials you may throw out. Now multiply that by a country. Then a continent. Then the world. If everybody recycled everything that was recyclable, think about how much we would save! The landfills would hold more trash, we would spend less resources and money on making new plastics and paper. But hey, I'm not saying that I'm not at fault too. I can make an effort to recycle too.
All choices have an effect on the environment, even taking a simple step changes something. It takes energy, which is created by food, which takes space to grow or raise. Air pollution makes the most difference, because it eventually gets to everything else in the form of acid rain and then seeps into groundwater. But one of the best things you can do for the world is buying locally grown, non-pesticidal, organic food. This takes less time to transport it, which results in less gasoline, which contributes to air pollution. Even breathing emits co2, which is bad for the ozone layer, but that can't be helped. So the ozone layer will always be harmed, but it can repair itself, the needle of the haystack.
ReplyDeleteThe consequences of our actions as a group of people are coming back to us. From the first poachers to the over-use of plastic bottles today, we have been taking the resources of the Earth for granted. Even with all the buzz of green energy and low emissions from electronics, we are still releasing much more greenhouse gasses and harmful substances than we are trying to stop. The effort is impressive, but it's too little, too late.
ReplyDeleteImpact on Climate change has changed dramatically over the last 10,000 years. Aerosols and other chemicals are visible pollutions and they cool the atmosphere but they wash away to other planets during the rain. There are other visible polluters but some aren't as powerful or as weak as other ones. Darker forests attract more light and stay more moist longer.
ReplyDeleteA majority of what happens to the environment is based on choices we make. A lot of what may appear to be necessities, are nothing more then luxuries and conveniences. But, we make the decisions everyday, and whether or not we consider the future in our decisions is another choice of ours. What I think is the most important choice is if we inform others. Yes, we can recycle cans, but it doesn't make much a difference if it is only one person, so get others involved.
ReplyDeleteI think ignorance is the greatest danger to the environment because that is a large cause of the specific things that are hurting Earth. It is ignorance that causes some people to continue to participate in practices that have negative after affects. Ignorance causes people who do know what is happening to the environment to ignore it. Ignorance causes people who are lucky enough to be educated blame people of lesser understanding on all of these crisis. Yes, many of those are the people who ay work in these polluting factories, but there are not always other options. We cannot fix a something if it isn't admitted to being broken.