Its big oceans lakes and rivers were home for millions of gorgeous creatures that swam peacefully in clear water. ... Will be this picture of a world just available to decorate the walls in the future houses, or just a bed story that our children will tell their grandchildren? ...
These external transactions may include industrial output and energy consumption, as well as the unpaid work of women and children hauling water or fuel-wood, the burning of rainforest to clear land on which to grow food for one's family, drug-trafficking and other crime, traditional barter, and cooperative labor exchange. ... River systems and aquifers have been seriously depleted by water withdrawals. ...
Theodore Roosevelt said "To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase it's usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very property which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed" (Nature Node). ... We continue to rape our rain forests of their very life, we buy huge sport utility vehicles that pollute our air like the factories of the industrial revolution, and at the same time endlessly pollute our lakes, rivers, and oceans. ...
