ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
11 March 2021

Author: Eda Aga

The environment can live without us, but we cannot live without it. Each of us uses the environment to carry our daily activities. Anything that has a direct connection to humans indisputably affects the environment. Every day we are becoming more and more irresponsible in regards to protecting the environment, it seems like we are taking care of it, but we are destroying it.

By focusing more and more on the ambition on how to make more money, human beings are forgetting the impact that their actions have on the environment. The environmental conditions and the quality of life are worsening, soil, water, and air pollution are impacting negatively on them, and ecosystems and natural habitats of animals and plants are gradually being destroyed. The damages in flora and fauna are leading to degradation by resulting in the loss of precious aspects of the environment. Seeing the importance of the environment arises the need to protect and care for it as much as possible, but unfortunately, we do not understand how much we are harming it, ourselves, our future, but also our descendants. Regardless of the use of land in favour of human interests, environmental costs can be minimised to prevent environmental damages. Environmental pollution occurs when a natural surface of the earth is damaged through industrial, commercial, agricultural, or domestic activities.

One of the most effective ways to minimise the risk of destroying the environment is through waste management in an organised way, but also through the use of land and adequate agricultural practices in the least harmful way. Because technology, through its achievements in every field, can make these mechanisms be created well enough to return to the function of environmental protection. We are aware that cases of environmental pollution in various forms are numerous and not all people or institutions act responsibly to stop this from happening.

Some try to develop environmental protection activities, while others exploit the environment in the most barbaric way. For example, by destroying canyons to build hydropower plants, or turning rivers into dams or garbage dumps. They do this by forgetting what value or wealth these places can carry and that tomorrow with a little investment, and with care rather than destruction they can turn them into a major tourist attraction. Today there are few public spaces for young people, which enable to spend time together and even the few spaces you can find can be towards a plan to be deleted from the map altogether. This does remain only a problem for young people but for any age group that has the right to have access to public recreational spaces.

Societies across the world are facing various problems such as economic, social, cultural, and political. However, environmental-related problems are remembered only on certain dates that are symbolic for the protection of the environment. On any other day, the environment is left out of focus until a moment when it will be too late to take any action to save it, and ourselves. Like with everything else, we know its value only when we lose it, this is what happens with the environment. It is us who are taking it to this stage, we are destroying everyone’s future without realising that there will be no second chance for going back. Therefore, we need to increase our social and personal awareness to focus and care more for our big home, the environment.