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Climate change is a vivid manifestation of how humans are naturally exploitative. A lot of things in the world have already been exploited by them and they continue to do so for their own benefit. They think the potentiality of the resources around them are too great and that is why they try as much as they can to extract all potential benefits they could possibly get from it. However, there are times when humans tend to push the limits too much. They seem to be always curious about how far things can go. They want to be able to measure the extents of things and gain more and more benefits from it as much as possible.
In relation to this, there are clear signs regarding how humans are exploiting the environment just for the sake of development. They think that progress is a higher value than environmental preservation without even realizing that the preservation of the environment is tantamount to preserving our own lives. Businesses and companies continue to break down forests for more buildings and establishments just so they could make another commercial area. These forests contain millions of trees and plants that supposedly provide oxygen to the environment. They can also be used as raw materials for making necessary things such as paper or construction materials. A lot of companies still engage in illegal logging despite the fact that environmental laws exist. They still produce so much carbon emissions that threaten the survival of the earth because it makes the world’s temperature rise to a massively high level. The ozone layer is what is protecting us from the ultraviolet rays of the sun. Having carbon emissions gradually destroys this layer of protection that we have and therefore, the sun’s rays are slowly penetrating the earth at a dangerous level. Plants and trees are supposed to address this particular problem. They are supposed to suck up the carbon emissions around us for they need it for producing their own food. However, because we constantly break down forests, where trees and plants live, we also lessen the chances for the problem to be addressed. We are constantly killing the agents that are responsible for sucking up the carbon emissions that we have in order to make the world a safe place to live in. Moreover, we are also killing the agents responsible for making us breathe and live everyday of our lives. Plants and trees release oxygen in the process of making food. Oxygen is what we need in order to breathe properly and survive. So by exploiting the environment, we are also slowly killing the producers of the element that makes us live. So essentially, the value of progress is self-defeating. We might be progressing but we are also lessening our chances of survival. Progress is supposed to benefit the people. But in the end, most likely no one is going to benefit from it because we’d all probably be dead.
It’s about time that we learned the value of environmental preservation. Let’s save the world from further destruction so that it remains to be a safe place for everyone.