Beautiful trees, colorful birds, fragrant flowers, sparkling springs, and clear blue skies. These are just some of the few items the planet has given us. We live on such a wonderful place that offers beauty and pleasure. This planet deserves to be treated with the highest of respects. Sadly, we have a problem of destroying the planet by polluting and depleting our natural resources. To have a clean planet and abundant resources for our future generations we must teach and emphasize the importance of sustainability.
The terminology for sustainability is meeting the needs of the present generations with out compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. A simple example of sustainability is the rapidly growing of subdivisions. The natural resource used most in the production of homes is lumber. Naturally, lumber comes from trees. Sustainability in this case would be planting trees to replace the ones that are cut down for the supply of lumber.
Lester R. Brown writes an essay on his attitude towards environmental issues. He states, "time to get the world on a sustainable path is rapidly running out. We believe that humanity will achieve sustainability, it will do so within the next 40 years. If we have not succeeded by then, environmental deterioration and economic decline will be feeding on each other, pulling us down toward decay and political upheaval- (569). Can you imagine what this world would be like in 40 years if we didn't practice sustainability? Lester R. Brown believes that for the Earth to be "environmentally stable we must vision what our future will be like- (568). In his essay he is only viewing the positive side and not emphasizing on what it will take to get there. .
The moment when we first wake up we begin making a negative impact on the environment. The morning begins with turning on the light in the bathroom, then turning on and leaving the water running while you brush your teeth.
