Today it is difficult to overestimate the importance and role of ecology both in the life of the whole society and separately in the life of each person. Likewise, the state of the planet depends both on commercial companies that produce tons of waste every year, and on the individual who enjoys the benefits of civilization.
A little history
Throughout known history, humanity has developed and, along with it, its concepts about the world around us have developed. Very early, people realized that natural gifts must be used wisely, without destroying the natural balance between man and the planet.
This is confirmed by rock paintings that speak of human interest in the environment.
From more recent data it is known that nature conservation was actively practiced in Ancient Greece, where residents protected the beauty of natural forests.
Modern look
Now ecology is interpreted as a science that studies the interaction of living organisms with each other, as well as with the environment.
Any organism living on the planet is influenced by many factors: favorable and unfavorable. All these factors can be divided into two groups: biotic and abiotic. Biotic include those that come from living nature; to abiotic - those carried by inanimate nature. For example, an orchid growing on the bark of a tree is an example of symbiosis, that is, a biotic factor, but the direction of the wind and weather conditions affecting these two organisms are already an abiotic factor. All this creates conditions for the natural evolution of living organisms on the planet.
But here another important aspect appears that significantly influences the state of the environment - this is the anthropogenic factor, or the human factor. Deforestation, diversion of rivers, mining and development of minerals, release of various toxins and other wastes - all this affects the environment where such impacts are produced. As a result, biotic and abiotic factors in this area undergo changes, and some of them even disappear.
In order to regulate environmental changes, scientists have identified the main tasks that ecology must solve, namely: the development of laws for the reasonable use of natural resources, based on the general principles of the organization of life, as well as the timely solution of environmental problems.
For this, environmental scientists have identified four basic laws:
- everything is connected to everything;
- nothing disappears into nowhere;
- nature knows best;
- nothing is given for nothing.
It would seem that compliance with all these rules should lead to a reasonable and harmonious use of natural gifts, but, unfortunately, we are seeing a different trend in the development of this area.
Why is this happening? Why does the role of ecology in the lives of many people still remain in the background? Any external problem is only a reflection of human consciousness. Most people are not even aware of what is hidden behind the results of their daily life activities.
Aspects of nature affected by anthropogenic factors
The sharp increase in consumer lifestyle has led to unwise use of natural resources. The rapid development of scientific and technological progress, the large-scale growth of human agricultural activity - all this has aggravated the negative impact on nature, which has led to a serious disruption of the ecological situation on the entire planet. Let's consider the main natural aspects that are most susceptible to environmental crisis.
Air
Once upon a time there was a different atmosphere on Earth, then it happened that oxygen appeared on the planet, and after it aerobic organisms formed, that is, those that feed on this gas.
Absolutely all aerobic creatures depend on oxygen, that is, on air, and our life activity depends on its quality. Everyone knows from school that oxygen is produced by plants, therefore, given the current trend of deforestation and the active growth of the human population, it is not difficult to guess what the destruction of fauna leads to. But this is only one of the aspects affecting the state of the atmosphere of our planet. In reality, everything is more complicated, especially in large populated cities, where, according to medical standards, the concentration of toxic substances is tens of times higher.
Water
The next equally important aspect of our life is water. The human body consists of 60–80% water. 2/3 of the entire earth's surface consists of water. Oceans, seas, and rivers are constantly being polluted by humans. Every day we “kill” the world’s oceans with oil production in offshore fields. Oil spills threaten the lives of marine life. Not to mention the garbage islands continuously drifting across the surface of the oceans and seas.
Fresh water is most vulnerable to human ignorance. Sewage, various toxins such as mercury, lead, pesticides, arsenic and many other “heavy” chemicals poison rivers and lakes every day.
Earth
The main foundation of life on earth is soil. It is known that in order for the Earth to create one centimeter of black soil, it will take about 300 years. Today, on average, one centimeter of such fertile soil dies in three years.
Climate
The combination of all environmental problems leads to climate deterioration. Climate can be compared to the health of the planet. When individual “organs” of the Earth suffer, this has a direct impact on the climate. For many years now we have been observing various anomalies due to climate change, the causes of which are the anthropogenic factor. Human intervention in the activities of nature has led to sudden warming or cooling in certain areas, rising sea levels due to the rapid melting of glaciers, abnormal amounts of precipitation or its absence, as well as severe natural disasters and much more.
The main thing is not focusing on the list of problems, but understanding the reasons for their occurrence, as well as concentrating on effective ways and means of solving them.
Areas of our lives affected by ecology
What is the role of ecology in human life? As for absolutely everything that we all deal with every day, every second of our lives; without which life, such as it is now, could not exist?
Health
Health is like a constructor, on whose individual parts its condition as a whole depends. There are many such factors, the main ones are known to everyone - this is the lifestyle, nutrition, human activity, the people around him, as well as the environment where he lives. Ecology and human health are closely interconnected. If there are violations on one side, the other reacts accordingly.
A person living in a city is many times more likely to develop a serious illness than a person living in the suburbs.
Nutrition
When a person eats incorrectly, his metabolism is disrupted, which in turn leads to more serious health problems. It is worth remembering that these disorders can also affect future generations.
The main problem for human health is chemicals, mineral fertilizers, pesticides that are used to treat agricultural fields, as well as the use of additives and dyes to improve the appearance of products, preservatives to increase the shelf life of products, and much more.
There are known cases of adding compounds of heavy metals and other elements unfavorable to the human body, such as mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium, manganese, tin and others.
Poultry and cattle feed contains many toxins that can cause cancer, metabolic failure, blindness and other serious diseases.
To protect yourself and your loved ones, you need to be careful about the products you buy. Study the composition and symbols printed on the packaging. Do not support manufacturers who are indifferent to your fate and the state of our planet. Pay special attention to E-supplements with three-digit numbers, the meaning of which can easily be found on the Internet and thereby live a longer and happier life.
Vital activity and mood
The state of health and quality of nutrition are the determining factors of human activity and vitality. As we see, all these factors can be associated with the state of ecology on our planet, on which we directly depend. Leading a healthy lifestyle, practicing yoga and self-knowledge, it is simply impossible to be indifferent to the environment. When we are in nature, breathing fresh air, eating clean, home-grown food, our life changes its quality. The state of mind is also transformed, which harmonizes the mood and attitude towards life in general.
Karma
Everything in this world is natural; everything we do, one way or another, comes back to us, immediately or later - it doesn’t matter. If we take care of ourselves and the world where we now live, save resources, think about nature, live according to our conscience, then the environmental situation on the planet will improve - and we will not have to pay for our own recklessness and inattention.
Live consciously, eat healthily - only natural products, - take care of waste disposal and recycling, use the essentials - then your life and the life of our entire planet will improve! Great things start from small things!
About the topic: Nature has always given man beauty, harmony and favorable conditions for life. What does man give to nature? An essay on the topic of reasoning about man’s reckless and negligent attitude towards natural resources.
Ecology and man.
Look around you. Right now, look carefully out the window. What do you see? The azure blue sky overhead, the bright sun that shines on us every day, the white sparkling snow...
If you look closely at nature, what surrounds us is created ideally and harmoniously; there is real beauty all around, which we sometimes don’t even notice behind the veil of gray everyday life. Everything seems absolutely ordinary and banal to us. We live in ideal and fertile natural conditions, and Mother Nature takes care of this. Think about this, because she gave us everything, absolutely everything we need for life: the air we breathe, the water we drink, the sun that gives life to everything, the weight that surrounds us, the same houses, clothes and food - this all thanks to her. She constantly gives, gives, gives to us, takes care of humanity like a real loving mother who is ready to give everything to her beloved children. It’s worth thinking about, what are we doing in response? How do we respond to her concern?
Let's mentally move far back, when there were no factories, factories, cars, computers, high-rise buildings and everything without which our life now seems simply impossible. Back then, people did not know how to extract oil, coal and other minerals, which are now mercilessly pumped out of the Earth at an unimaginable speed. It was then that man was grateful to nature, to the plants and animals that surrounded him. He cared and gratefully accepted her gifts. And now, what are we seeing in our 21st century?
Day after day, the Earth is becoming more and more devastated, giving away its riches to humanity. Millions of tons of oil, natural gas, coal, peat and other minerals are pumped out every day. A person simply mercilessly devours them, but they are not eternal! Every day, plants and factories are built that poison the atmosphere, releasing millions of tons of pollutants into the air, without thinking that by doing so we are digging a hole for ourselves. It's not just the air that is polluted. How many rivers, lakes, reservoirs and seas have become victims of toxic waste emissions. Take, for example, Lake Baikal. This is the most poignant example of human negligence.
For what? Why kill the living things that are next to us? Imagine that you will wake up one day, and the bright sun will not shine outside, the sky will be overcast, there will never be greenery, everything around will be gray and scary, there will be nowhere to go on vacation, there will simply not be all the beauty that we we can enjoy. Not impressive, right? So why destroy your home with your own hands? Think about the future about the next generations. It is impossible to change the thinking of billions of people immediately and in an instant. But if everyone thinks about how we thank our nurse, mother nature, and changes their attitude towards the beauty around us, perhaps something will change. You can’t think: “I don’t need this, let the environmentalists take care of it,” this is not true. There are few of them, and they cannot completely prevent all the harm caused to nature. We need everyone to start with themselves, today, now!
The time has come when we often have to talk about the environment. What is she? Ecology is a science that studies the relationship between all life on Earth and its surrounding nature.
In the age of technological progress, when more favorable and easier living conditions are created for humanity, people began to get sick more often. Instead of fresh air, everyone has to breathe exhaust fumes and smoke. Eating food grown with herbicides.
Many people, especially, like to go to the forest or to the river to take a break from all their problems and worries. But after these visits, whole heaps of garbage remain, as well as glass bottles and plastic. suffers from this too. But there are people who cannot look with indifference at such an attitude towards. They began to create special socio-political organizations that remind everyone of what this attitude of people towards the environment can lead to.
The rivers from which drinking water comes are polluted. Oil, plastic bottles, and garbage float in them. From all this, it is primarily the inhabitants of water bodies that suffer: fish, vegetation, as well as birds and animals that live on the banks. We need to think about what nature gives us. Her gifts are great: air to breathe, bright sunshine, water to drink and cook. And how many natural resources are extracted by man in the depths of the earth: coal, ore, oil, precious stones.
The forest is also our breadwinner - mushrooms, berries, nuts, medicinal herbs. What does a person give in return? People, creating industrial and chemical enterprises, poison the air. But they have to breathe for us ourselves. And how much toxic waste is discharged from enterprises directly into rivers.
But it’s time to think about what’s happening and start sounding the alarm. Otherwise, we will be surrounded only by gray clouds, as in post-apocalyptic films, and there will be no greenery and flowers at all. There will no longer be such places where you can relax and admire the beauty of the world around you. It will be impossible to swim, fish or sunbathe on the banks in polluted water bodies.
Therefore, it is necessary to think about this. Every person needs to start greening the streets, for this they need to plant trees, so that parks grow, for recreation and walks. Decorate the streets and courtyards with beautiful flower beds, where the brightest and most fragrant flowers will bloom. No one except a person can do this. This is the only way to improve your life and protect yourself. Therefore, it is necessary to treat nature with care and love, then the environment will become much better and the world will be more beautiful!
Environmental problems are among the most serious problems of modern society. A person is extremely dependent on the environment in which he lives, on what surrounds him. Man, as we know, is surrounded by nature. In the modern world, it is becoming so that a person becomes cramped on this Earth, so he begins to harm our common nature in various ways. The consequences of this could be extremely negative for all of us. Therefore, the world community is beginning to think about environmental problems and the possibilities of solving these problems. At the same time, solving these problems is quite difficult, because they have already gone too far.
The peculiarity of environmental problems is that they are both global in nature and regional in nature. If with global problems of the world ecology everything is more or less clear, because countries are jointly trying to solve these problems, then with regional problems the situation is somewhat more complicated. The fact is that some states, for example, Russia, have a number of other problems that require solutions; our government cannot pay enough attention and resources to the environment, since it must solve other problems. This is why Russia’s environmental problems seem to become irrelevant, and their effective solution is constantly postponed in time.
At the same time, despite the passivity of the state in solving our environmental problems, we still need to study them and draw attention to them. One of the significant problems is the problem of water pollution. The water from our taps is not sufficiently tested and can be very harmful to people's health. This problem is related to the lack of adequate standards for cleaning up new pollutants.
Likewise, the air continues to become increasingly polluted. This problem is associated with an increased number of cars and the lack of a sufficient number of treatment facilities at enterprises. It is worth noting that the country's flora and fauna are constantly declining. Poaching is widespread in Ukraine, and some plants have completely disappeared from the territory of our country. It is worth mentioning separately the terrible consequences of the Chernobyl disaster that our people still continue to face. A huge number of people continue to suffer from diseases caused by radiation, even more than 27 years after the terrible disaster.
Responsibility for solving environmental problems lies primarily with the state, but each individual citizen could begin to improve the environment on his own if he used his car less, did not litter in inappropriate places and did not pollute water bodies. Improving the environment is not easy, but it needs to be done so that it doesn’t get worse.
For thousands of years, day after day, people obtain and prepare their own food, create tools, and keep their homes warm. Man cuts down forests, drains natural reservoirs, exterminates animals, builds factories, cities, factories, extracts minerals, and cultivates the land. People do everything in order to be well-fed, warm, so that there is less work and they can relax carefree and do only what they like. But not a single person thinks about what it is like for the creatures living around, what state the planet is in. Naturally, nothing
Doesn't go away without a trace. Many people believe that the Earth's resources are limitless, they look around and see that there are many animals around, huge areas of forest, long majestic rivers, clean air. They think that it will always be like this, that all this will be enough for them, even too much. This was once the case... But every year the planet’s resources are increasingly depleted, and environmental disasters occur more often, in which thousands of lives are lost. And humanity still moves forward along the path of technological progress, stepping over people who died due to the fault of nature, forgetting that if there were no nature, then there would be no man himself.
People, stop! Stop at least for a second, look around!
Don't you understand that nature takes innocent lives not at its own whim. She is simply forced to draw attention to herself. From year to year, volcanoes erupt, earthquakes, landslides, mudflows, avalanches occur, and people die. So the Earth warns every person, says that in one terrible moment everything can collapse, break, die.
But people still continue to ignore, destroy and pollute nature. I believe that barbaric acts need to stop. Stop before it's too late
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