If we use all the Earth has to provide today then our children's children will have nothing. ... If they cut down all the trees and grasses around their fields, the chemicals along with the soil run down to the rivers and streams and get washed away which pollutes the water and kills organisms in it. ... While I'm on the subject of rivers I feel it is also important that we talk about factories. ... Many companies just dump it straight into the rivers; others bury it. ...

• Word Count: 1666
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate