The Sustainability Of The Environment

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We have a major role when it comes to the sustainability of the environment we live in today. Now, that we all have more knowledge about the world and how it works we all should understand that each of our action have their own consequences. You would think by us knowing how much we are contributing to ruining the world we all love people would change their ways, but we don’t because we all are very selfish. The most direct way that we are impacting the ecosystem is by polluting it.

Everyone on this earth has contributed to polluting the ecosystem in one way. We do things everyday that easily have a better solution we can use in order to keep the world we live in a better place. Simple things like categorizing our trash or cars we buy. There is so many different forms of pollution but Air Pollution and Water Pollution affects us the most.

Without oxygen no organism will be able to live. So, that is why I believe air pollution is the most important pollution that we need to stop contributing to. There 's
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We can clearly see the importance of water just by looking on the situation California is in today. Over half of the United States depends on groundwater for drinking water. So, by polluting the water it will make more and more people sick. There is so many cause of pollution when it comes to groundwater. A couple of many ways we impact the ecosystem by polluting the water is oil pollution and industrial waste. First, oil spills makes up about twelve percent of the oil pollutions. They are so damaging to out ecosystem by killing our animals such as birds, fish, and other sea animals. So, because oil do not dissolve in water it become thick sludge in the water and that suffocates fish. While the oil get on birds features preventing them from flying. It also block sunlight and this causes a disruption to the photosynthesis

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