While browsing the internet you will find a great number of ways suggesting you how to save the environment. Or there are lots of BBC and National Geographic documentaries shouting about the devastating impact of mankind on wild nature. You are imposed on a variety of methods how to lessen the destructive impact on nature but it looks like treating the symptoms instead of the problem, which is actually the problem of mind.
Law of Cause and Effect
Buddhism, Christianity and
other religions teach the existence of a law of 'cause and effect'
but you shouldn't be a religious person to observe the same law in
your life. Sir Isaak Newton used the same principle in his third Law
of Motion which states the following: “For every action, there is
an equal and opposite reaction”. For example, excessive eating and
poor exercising result in health problems sooner or later;
uncontrolled spending of money result in debt, etc. But let's come
back to environmental problems and take forest cutting as one of the
examples.
Forest Cutting
Forests are also called
the lungs of the planet, so cutting forests result in reducing the
level of oxygen in the air as well as in decreasing relative humidity
level since trees pick up moister from soil, filter and purify it to
then emit it into the atmosphere in that way increasing humidity.
Less humidity result in the rise of temperature, which in turn result
in global warming and green house effect. In this case one of the
ways to prevent the green house effect is to stop cutting forest. But
we took only the main chain as the example and there is a large
number of smaller effects triggered by deforestation: soil erosion,
destruction of habitats for rare specious of plants and animals,
landscape damaging, etc. It will take hundreds of years to restore
what was destroyed.
Diamond Mining
Now let's take diamond
mining as the example. It's impossible to be an environmentalist and
be fond of diamond jewelry especially if you have the least idea of
how diamonds are mined. The easiest way to extract them from under
the ground is to dig. But the problem is they are too deep so the
hole should be wide and deep enough to allow bulldozers and other
machinery to get there. You can find the pictures of those terrific
mines over the internet, so mining is not environmentally friendly at
all as the soil erosion result in destruction of plant and animal
habitats turning a huge zone around the mine into a lifeless desert.
Moreover, mining implies using water resources what result in water
pollution. The thing is that the devastating impact of either forest
cutting or diamond mining is known to anyone but why do you think
they don't discontinue doing that? Because demand creates supply, not
the other way around. Diamond mining will be allowed till there is
the demand for diamonds and the demand is growing each year. A
vicious circle.
Eco-Friendly
Alternative
However, there is the way
out first off by changing your mind. Created diamonds are offered as
the best substituent for natural diamonds and can't be detected by
the naked eye yet many people have certain preconceptions concerning
them. Why? You can hear various reasons but the main which people
don't usually name is the prestige, the desire to stand out. And the
last thing they think about is the environmental protection, which is
concerned as the global problem while desire for diamonds is taken as
personal aspiration. Wrong thinking! Do not forget about a law of
cause and effect. It wasn't hard to make people believe diamonds are
forever – a catchy slogan, sexy Marilyn Monroe and they are hooked
– but it seems impossible to convince them that diamond mining is
devastating for the planet. What slogan do they need to turn their
attention to eco-friendly alternatives? So there is one way to
protect the environment – change your mind first. Can you do that?
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