My Student's Essay With International Honourable Mention Award

                             Go Green

I think that people take Mother Natures creations for granted. We all think that the little things in life aren’t important, but they really are. For example: trees. They aren’t really little, but most people don’t think about how important they really are for us. People cut them down for different reasons without thinking about the damage their doing. We must know natures importance and try to stop polluting and damaging our world. Nature is constantly changing, even before the dawn of humanity. From the breakup of Pangaea to the extinction of dinosaurs, from the Sahara Pump to the Ice Age, Earth has completely changed from what it was millions of years ago. The balance of Earth’s atmosphere has been greatly damaged by emissions of chemical compounds, thereby increasing the pace of climate change. Nature is not simply an unlimited store of resources to serve humans. It is a combination of all living creatures and plants, including soil, water and air that plants, animals and humans depend on to survive. Humans quite frequently harm nature for there own benefit. You don’t have to be a genius or a millionaire to save our planet, everyone can do their bit in helping out. ‘Sustainable living’ means different things to different people. In my opinion sustainable living means living in a heathy world between earths limits and reducing our impacts on the Earth’s resources, which is living more simply and taking care of nature so that it can take care of us. Oceans are one of the most important part of our planet and we must appreciate them, just like everything else. Oceans generate half the oxygen we breath and contain more than 96% of the World’s water. We can reduce water pollution by not pouring fat or oil down the sink or in the toilet pan, because they go into the ocean and is very harmful. We can also recycle. Recycling is very important and helps our World in many ways. By recycling your household items you could reduce the amount of rubbish sent to landfills and also reduce environmental impacts by saving the amount of energy saved in collecting and dumping the trash. You should use more items made with recycled materials. For example: instead of using different plastic bags each time you go shopping you could buy an eco friendly bag and use that all the time. Another important part of “Sustainable Living” is saving energy. There are many ways you could be saving energy at home by using the new intelligent programmable heating that can learn from the humans behaviour and can control the room temperature, so that no energy is wasted. Another question I ask myself is what are countries doing to be sustainable? Well I would like to elucidate it for you. Some countries are doing their job perfunctory, when others and doing their job scintillating. Countries should be; using as many recycled products as possible, protecting water quality bye reducing fertilizer use and minimizing the amount of road salt, reducing heat build up and improving air quality. Unfortunately instead of doing these, some countries increase the amount of air pollution by creating more factories.Trees, shrubs and turf remove smoke, dust and other pollutants from the air. Buildings should also be sustainably designed. Significant amounts of children in poor countries are suffering from all of these. In order to try to prevent all of this we could start planting vegetables in our school gardens and own backyards. That would minimize the amount of harmful chemicals farmers use on plants. Thus I think we can make it possible.

Ellis Kaya/ Marmaris Profesyonel İlgim Koleji