Around the world, people have been harming the environment with the use of technology throughout our daily lives.This is because many people are unaware of the issues that they create. The David Suzuki Foundation, is a global organisation that makes people aware of the issues affecting our environment.
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| "Our mission is to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life, now and for the future." (David Suzuki, and Staff) |
Goals
The organizations goals:
Protecting our climate - ensure that Canada is doing its fair share to avoid dangerous climate change and is on track to achieve a safe level of greenhouse gas emissions.
Transforming the economy - make certain that Canadians can maintain a high quality of life within the finite limits of nature through efficient resource use.
Protecting nature - work to protect the diversity and health of Canada's marine, freshwater, and terrestrial creatures and ecosystems.
Reconnecting with nature - ensure that Canadians, especially youth, learn about their dependence on a healthy environment through outdoor education.
The Issues
The issues this organizations is helping us avoid:
Climate Change - harming the ozone layer, means increase in global temperature which will create more severe weather, and water shortages in many places.
Health - Many of the products we use like shampoo for example contain toxics that may harm our body and environment.
Wildlife and Habitats - We humans share the earth with many other kinds of apples. We all need the resources to live our lives suitably. If we waste the resources we would find it very difficult to live life accordingly
What We Could Do and How It Would Help?
There are many things we can do to help our environment:
Reducing a carbon footprint is one way. We can't suddenly stop harming our environment but by reducing our energy consumptions we can slowly change it. From things like, biking to work if close or using energy efficient light bulbs will help reduce energy consumptions as well as save you financially. Who wouldn't want to save money as well as save the world. By reducing our energy consumptions we damage the ozone layer less quickly which also means severe weather would come less frequently.
Planting trees in areas where trees were taking away, will help create habitats for some animals, give us more resources later in the furture, as well as give us oxygen.
The David Suzuki Foundations plays a big role in our community. His website, http://www.davidsuzuki.org/ shows a list of things we can do to help the environment. He educates youths to help youths understand what they could do to help our future. I think it's important we youth know what the consequences that may come upon us in the future so we can avoid it happening.
