In the article “Our Crime Against the Planet and Ourselves,” Adrian Parr states that environmental degradation is a crime against humanity while she was interviewed by Natasha Lennard. She talks about how humans are destroying living things by polluting waterways, causing deforestation and loss of habitat and the expanding deserts, which causes many problems for future generations and depriving them of the environmental benefits that our generations had. Parr points out that there are many ways to deal with the problem of environmental degradation one being with the help of the government that can put in place regulations that slow down the effect of pollution and other harmful things on the environment, but lately the government responds
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I also believe that environmental degradation is also very real since with the development of new technology, people are now producing more waste than ever before. Rivers are being polluted, habitats are being destroyed and we are slowly running out of fresh water. Also the population is growing (it is expected to be about 9 billion by 2050!) so the more people in the world, the more food that needs to be produces, the more cars that are going to be driving and polluting the air, and the more waste that is going to go into landfills and oceans. That is all scary to think about, since 2050 is going to come around during my life time (hopefully), but most people (including me) are not willing to change their lifestyle for the well-being of the environment. People are not going to stop driving their cars, or taking long showers or even eating a lot of meat. Change like that is not going to happen overnight and even though it might be a crime against ourselves and we are ruining the Earth for future generations, there is just not that much that can be done. I do agree that even though individual people might not change their lifestyle, by making big companies that are responsible for a lot of pollution clean up their mess and follow stricter regulations about how much pollution they can produce, we as a planet can slow down the effects
I also believe that environmental degradation is also very real since with the development of new technology, people are now producing more waste than ever before. Rivers are being polluted, habitats are being destroyed and we are slowly running out of fresh water. Also the population is growing (it is expected to be about 9 billion by 2050!) so the more people in the world, the more food that needs to be produces, the more cars that are going to be driving and polluting the air, and the more waste that is going to go into landfills and oceans. That is all scary to think about, since 2050 is going to come around during my life time (hopefully), but most people (including me) are not willing to change their lifestyle for the well-being of the environment. People are not going to stop driving their cars, or taking long showers or even eating a lot of meat. Change like that is not going to happen overnight and even though it might be a crime against ourselves and we are ruining the Earth for future generations, there is just not that much that can be done. I do agree that even though individual people might not change their lifestyle, by making big companies that are responsible for a lot of pollution clean up their mess and follow stricter regulations about how much pollution they can produce, we as a planet can slow down the effects