While we were away on vacation, the world observed "Earth Day." This is an occasion to remember where we live, and the importance of taking care of our home. We're not doing a great job at the moment: climate change is creating catastrophic change, melting polar ice, forming massive super storms, and flooding coastlines, all of which could cause species extinction, including our own! In the spirit of Earth Day, what can we, as individuals, do to save our planet and ourselves?
I think we should use less disposable chopsticks, so it will help the trees. Do not use disposable plastic bags. Garbage should be classified. It should be that some of the waste can be recycled so that many materials can be reduced. Go out as little as possible with cars, walk and bike. This will reduce environmental pollution. To protect more wild animals.
ReplyDeletewhat can we do？I don't know ！that was difficult problem，fist I think it is necessary in rapidly developing society today.There are also many businessmen who are desperate to destroy the environment，If from the public's point of view.we can’t do anything，destruction is always easier than creation.if from the individuals ’point of view ， I think everyone should have this idea like "The earth is only a", let us together to cherish, common maintenance.Turn it off every time you don't use the light、Not far away from the bike.Public bikes are very popular now that was very good idea ……
ReplyDeleteSaving Earth is a matter of course to us. We cannot declaim the climate change, even the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. What we can do to help those difficulty things for us even for the most powerful nation in the world. First we can take more public transport and bike. The most green house gas produced by vehicles. And we can eat more vegetable or laboratory meat. Because stocking is the second largest resource to produced green house gas.
ReplyDelete“Protect our earth”, this is not just a slogan, but a real big issue we are facing to. Lots of human’s moving caused our planet environment going down and down. To be a human being, who live in this planet, we should do our ability to save our own environment. To be an individual, I would use less plastics bag and bottle, let my father doesn’t use car unless the necessary situation, etc. and I would always try my best to save our home.
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ReplyDeleteWe have heard many things to protect the earth, but we don't necessarily have to be able to do it. We can save water, and many people turn on their taps while brushing their teeth. At this time, the water in the faucet should be turned off. When we eat, we will take a lot of napkins. This can be avoided. We should take 1-2 napkins. This must be enough. There is also the fact that humans go to the forest to see the trees. This is something that must be avoided. This is the need of our humanity. We must build trees for many things. Sometimes we must cut down these trees, but we should try to avoid using wood to make things and reduce the number of times we cut down trees. Reducing the number of animals killed is very similar to cutting trees. It is inevitable that we need to eat meat, but we must reduce the number of times we kill these animals. These things are very difficult to do, although the earth will not be destroyed before people of our age leave this world, but we must create a beautiful living environment for our children and grandchildren.In ensuring our normal life, saving things we can save, the earth's demise is very fast, and we must seize the time to protect our only home.
ReplyDeleteThere are about 7 billion people on earth today,that's an enormous amount of people.People live on earth need many thing but the way to get most of these things will pollute the environment. And many people seem like to waste energy, like in the daytime they like to draw the curtains and open their lights,we can certainly avoid this. Also to protect the environment we can ride a bicycle or walk instead of driving, usually when we are going out we will drive. Don's waste paper
ReplyDeletethis is important, to make 1 ton of paper we need to cut down about 20 20~40-year-old trees and human cut down 4,700 trees a day right now.So we can also save paper.Earth will wane quickly if we don't protect it,earth is the only home human can find so far.So let's protect our own home.
Now, the environment have too much pollution come from human, like air pollution and water pollution. Factories create noxious gas lead to the sky not blue anymore. people like driving private cars and cutting the trees to develop more space to building . Natural balance be broken, so in the earth's day, we could take the subway to working ,and plant the trees, saving water and tissues. Earth not the human own, but also the animals' home. We should protect them too, don't killed them.
ReplyDeleteI think we can stop to killing the trees,
ReplyDeleteand don't use or spend a lot of water. But some times people always don't want to control them self, so that is bit point, and some times people are lazy, they don't want to find a trash case to
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Earth is people’s home land and also is the only planet that people can living in. We have our responsibility to protect our Earth. We can create more recycling trash bins and tell people need use them, that can help people have more recycling resource. Second in every family parents should tell they children don’t put trash everywhere and when they see the trash on the ground pick them up. If everyone doing that, earth will become better and better.
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ReplyDeleteI think that we have to be more careful about what we do.
Always people waste food and throw on the ground everything.
This kind of irresponsibility makes our earth dirty and with problems.
I guess that to improve our earth conditions we have to be conscious about our guilty and take our responsibility to be more smart and don’t repeat again same mistakes.
As a lot of company that wants to defend environment says, the initiative must be get by each man because in order to do a big accomplishment all the people have to do a small one.
The problem of the environment crisis is like a snowball that rolls, is grows bigger and bigger. It is time to stop that before it is too late. To do that, I have a few ideas. First I think we can choose to abund the paper books and start to use digital versions of them. Especially like those thick school textbooks. It is really a waste of paper. Second, we should make the public transportation easier and convenien to use. Build more bus stops will certainly help.
ReplyDeleteFirst：Be careful to turn off the lights. Use energy-efficient light bulbs. The U.S. energy department estimates that the use of energy-efficient light bulbs instead of traditional light bulbs can avoid the release of 400 million tons of carbon dioxide. Second：The use of various renewable energy technologies can greatly reduce the carbon dioxide that we generate in the use of energy. Solar energy can heat water and generate electricity
ReplyDeleteProtecting the earth is a big issue that we should deeply care about. If we do not protect the earth as soon as possible, the world will be polluted. Many people in different places on the Earth don’t have food to eat, water to drink and the air pollution makes people have to wear face mask whenever they go out. We should raise more green to make the world fresher and remember to save the energy when we don’t use it.
ReplyDeleteIdea of “Earth day” seems to be a great thought how to “save” our environment by turning off electricity for 1 hour, because logic says - we don’t use electricity, thermal stations do not produce it, no production - no emissions. However this idea is terrible and makes more damage rather than “helps” the environment.
ReplyDeleteSure we should not forget about simple and common methods of spacing the environment as recycling materials, not throw trash in the ocean - which then forms whole islands of trash. Besides these common ways, humanity need to develop new technology to safely and productively catch and recycle emissions and trash.
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ReplyDeleteWe can use solar energy in large quantities. The solar energy economy is stronger, more stable, and less polluting than the current oil-based economy. For developing countries, widespread use of solar energy is the only way out of fossil fuels for their economic and environmental constraints. In daily life, we can install solar water heaters. We also refuse to overpack. The production of packaging requires a large amount of metal, glass, paper, and plastic, and these packs become waste once they are used up. It is impossible to completely reject packaging, but we can do so by rejecting multiple packaging, rejecting excessive and luxurious packaging, and not buying foods or other items that are luxurious and crowded.
ReplyDeleteFor our teenagers we can not do lots of things for our Earth. But It is everyone's responsibility to protect the environment. We must start from a small place and we must persist. For example, in outdoor activities, hiking outings, to deal with garbage, not to be discarded everywhere, destruction of the landscape also pollute the environment.To love flowers and trees, do not trample the lawn, climb trees, and write letters and messages on bamboo. Visitors who are civilized, do environmental ambassadors.
ReplyDeleteAs we are talking about environment protection, I really want to talk about garbage classification, which appeared to be the only thing keeping some people from recycling.
ReplyDeleteWell, I was pretty impressed when I first came to the United States that people can always throw their trash into the right bin. In my home town, this is not very common. Actually people might consider you weird when you do so— the government replaced old bins with new ones which was colored in several different colors. Such as blue represents recycle bin, and green means kitchen leftovers and so on, but no one paid any attention to it. Instead, they just simply see them as the same.
In conclusion, I think that making sure people understand the importance of garbage classification is a really big deal to environmental protection.
Earth is the home of people and the only planet that humans can live in. Now that global warming, waves and other issues are affecting the lives of people and animals, we should pay attention to these issues and solve them. Therefore, on the day of the earth, we should drive as little as possible, plant more trees, save water and tissues, and use less disposable chopsticks. The earth is not only a human home, but also a home of animals and plants. If we do not protect the earth, even the earth There are many more resources that are also useful for a day. If everyone protects the earth, our lives will become better and better.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the good ways for us to protect the environment is saving water and electricity and reducing the use of plastic. For example, we can close the faucet immediately when we don't use it. We also can use our own bags that can reuse when we buy something in the markets. The effect of a person is pretty small but if everyone tries to save the world, we definitely can have a better world to live. So we need to start now and call the people around us to protect the environment too.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I think we will destroy ourselves and this planet we called our homeland before the deteriorating natural disasters destroy. Just think about today, you will find a lot of hints. Few days ago, the NATO Air Force striked Syria and caused the deaths of at least 25 innocent civilians. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. 4 hundreds thousands people died in the 7 year of the war in Syria. Completely destroyed the local environment. There are still many places in the world that are in the wars. People get killed and the environment get destroyed. One way to save our planet and ourselves is stopping war. As a individual, we should have critical thinking ability, spread the idea of anti war and pacifism and stay on the right side. The maintenance of peace is also a spirit of Earth Day.
ReplyDeleteWe should protect the earth. The problem of the environment is getting bigger and bigger. Although we can only slow it down, and we can and shouldn’t stop it. We must take action now. We can start with saving water and paper. We can just choose public transportation or bike to travel with. It is much cleaner than choosing car. We can choose less plastic products. The government need to take action too. I think if everyone care about it. Then it will be a smaller problem.
ReplyDeleteAll of the changes of the nature warn us that protecting the environment is a serious and emergent event. From my point of view, we should build proper lifestyle. We should pay attention to water and light saving. When we go out, we should firstly choose the public transportation. The most important is that we must realize that we can do a lot of things to protect our environment. It's our duty to make our home better.
ReplyDeleteNow the earth has been hurt, but more because of the pollution of our human life and the harm to nature. We should keep the earth and do our best to protect the environment and our homeland. We can promote people around us so that we all have a sense of protection. More trees are planted to reduce industrial pollution. Starting from small things, everyone can do a small thing can become a major event to protect the global environment.
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ReplyDeleteI think we can’t do a lot, but we should try. We should use less disposable chopsticks, so it will help the trees. At first we can put all trash in trash boxes and don’t leave mess outside, also we need be respectful for everyone and don’t damage trees and grass. Used batteries we need to give for the special place, the empty bottles from coco or other drinks we should bring to the special place. We should pay attention how much water we spend. Everything that made of metal,plastic or everything that can’t be recycle. We can tell our friends to do the same things and take care of our planet. If just every 10th will do it, it’s will helps a lot. And if you want and have free time, you can find a place and try to grow your own tree.
In my opinion, we can do a lot of things to safe our Earth for an example, first we can recycle our plastic bottle which every international students buys it every break t8me ir at lunch time, second we can bring our own water bottles to the school. Also unplug the every electrics which we are not using. The last thing we can do is turn off our rooms light or common room’s light when we are not there are we don’t necessarily needs a light to live.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, if we want to protect our planet we need do many things in our life. For example, don’t waste the paper because we use too many paper, that will cut more and more trees to continuous supply for our paper using. And we need cutdown the number for use the car. The automobile exhaust is made the environment be bad. Protect the environment need to do by ourselves.
ReplyDeleteProtect our home is a very big issue and that's what we should do. We should use more clean energy instead of culture. And we need more rules on the contaminate issue because it's main reason why the earth keep on deteriorate. Protect earth need everyone and we should be responsible on this issue. Just do it!
ReplyDeleteIn my personal opinion we can do a lot of things if we want to save out planet but day by day this problemis being worst there is more people in the planet and less people try to save it, one example of what can we do is recycle if we do recycle if we put the plastic bottles in special conteiners that can help us to make a clean planet.
ReplyDeleteThe earth is were we leave andif we want to save it we should start doing a change.
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ReplyDeleteI think that we need to start having a thought of what could happen if we don’t take care on the climate change because half of the species are in danger or are extinct so we need to be careful and just start by recycling and walking to a close address instead of going by car
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ReplyDeleteI think that we should take more care of our planet. We should throw the trash in the trash cans, and we should recycle everything that we can. There’s a lot of people that throws their trash at the beach and then the trash goes to the ocean and it creates a trash island. It is really important to take care of our planet if we want to live in a healthy way.
Should use their own cars as little as possible, reduce CO2 emissions, and more to participate in some activities to protect the environment, not to buy the skin of rare animals.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion one of the most important things to do is to respect the green areas in or world like the forest and the oceans. It’s a very important thing because without that we can have a normal life. Other thing is to make small acts that we don’t recognize them, but they are very important like put the trash in the right place or use the water when you are shower and not let it go, or turn off the lights if you are not using it, those are some example of what can we do to save the planet
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ReplyDeleteWe, the humans, are the only specie that help other species extinctions, is so sad that we don’t respect the planet and we don’t care about it and we just take care of ourselves. To make a change we don’t need to make a big change like donate a big amount of money, it okey if we start using the bicycle more than the car, separate the trash in different cans, close the water when we are brushing our teeth, small thinks do big changes.
The earth is our mother and our only home. But now people are hurting her a little bit. For example, there are many people throwing litter everywhere, a lot of exhaust emissions, did not close the tap when brushing his teeth....... Now global warming is because humans burn large amounts of energy such as oil. Scientists once said that if people continue to destroy the earth like this, the earth will be destroyed after 100 years. Therefore, we must appeal to people to protect the earth. We must first start from ourselves and start small. For example, tossing garbage should be classified, more bicycles should be used to drive less cars, and taps should be turned off when brushing teeth to avoid wasting water resources...
ReplyDeleteHuman activity harms nature and needs attention.We should protect the environment and Energy saving.Use energy as much as possible in life.Controlling nuclear weapons at the national level.If we don't do this, humans will die faster.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, we should not only focus on small things, but also remind ourselves about what else can we do. Many people change their phones to the newest one ever when their old phones are still working well, fashion shoes were bought by teenagers again and again thought they will never wear them. I saw situations like these many times.
ReplyDeleteProtect the environment is just a slogan for most people, many people are doing those “small thing” while they are wasting much more than they saveing in other places. The most important thing for everyone to do to protect the environment is make the slogan become a habit. I think that’ll help a lot if people realized that and start to action.
In my opinion the Air pollutions is the huge problem in our common society.Now, our side of the car constant more up, the environment also increasingly worse! That the air around us there are many harmful substances. Therefore, we want to Sue around things start to do. For example, we can go to school by bike or walk, it can exercise. If you have time can use less elevator, many climb stairs. We can not only physical exercise, but also to protect our environment.
ReplyDeleteOur Mother Earth is getting hurt right now. With the improvement of our living standard, more and more people can afford a car. As a result, our roads are more often than not crammed with cars. However, with more and more waste gas being discharged by the cars, the problem of air pollution becomes even more serious. So nowadays we advocate to lead a low-carbon life My suggestion is we should ride bikes more often instead of driving cars.By riding a bike, we can not only exercise our body but also protect our environment. Why not have a try.
ReplyDeleteThanks, everyone, for your comments on saving our home, the Earth. Walking or riding bikes instead of driving, taking public transportation, turning off lights, turning off the tap when brushing teeth, recycling plastic and paper, reusing stuff, consuming less...all of your ideas amount to being more aware of our role in preserving our home - which, as some of you mention, isn't only our home but also the home of animals and plants, some of which have disappeared. Let's all commit to doing our part.
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ReplyDeleteWe could not control the natural calamities, like polar ice, forming massive super storms, and flooding coastlines... However, we could do something in our daily life to protect our environment. For example, recycling is a useful way. Also, it does not cause too many time to do if we have this good habit of bringing a bag to the supermarket or recycle the bottles of drinks. This little chronic action will improve the environment if everyone does it.
From China from the East to the United States in the west, human had been suffered by climate change and some extremely strange weather these years. Humans should pay attention to the environmental pollution caused by industrial development nowadays. To defend ourselves, people should protect the earth carefully. For example, people can stop to use less plastic product and fossil fuel energy. Using solar energy and other clean energy can reduce the carbon dioxide gas effectively. We should also pay more attention to the recycling of the garbage. Forest plays an important role to reduce the pollution. We should establish new law to protect the forest all over the world. It's everyone's duty and responsibility to protect the environment.
ReplyDeleteEarth Our only homeland, we need to strengthen protection, start with little things around us, do not litter, sort waste, use less paper items, reduce tree felling, save water, and the world’s freshwater resources are rapidly changing. Decrease, because of the butterfly effect caused by a series of human activities, although we usually do not pay attention to it, but if we are concerned that is our time of demise.
ReplyDeleteProtect the earth first need not to waste water don't deforestation the earth is our home we need to do what we can do we have to protect our environment we don't throw rubbish on the way home we have to protect it
ReplyDeleteI always hear a lot about Earth's environmental problems, but I cannot and do not have the ability to protect the Earth just by myselves. So everyone should start from themselves, even do something very small, and call people around to protect the earth together. I think I can do something small. For examples, turning off the lights when I don't need them; going out without a taxi and try to walk or take the subway; when I go shopping in the supermarket, try to bring a cloth bag and use less plastic bags, etc.
ReplyDeleteThe earth environment is important to us, protect earth is us responsibility. By the way, people are weast paper, cut the tree, etc. these things are kind of destroying us world.
ReplyDeleteI always collect plastic bags after buy something. Cause we all know plastic make our lives easier but hurt environment so much. You can use plastic bags that we collect to load garbage again. Conserving water is easy to do too. You don’t need to turn on the water tap when you brushing teeth and put on body wash. Protecting the environment is protecting ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI think the current environment of the Earth is not very good. Humans should think of ways to protect it. For example, The haze in China is very serious. That's because some factories emit harmful gases. The government should give some punishment to these factories. Global warming has also become serious. People can reduce the use of air conditioning. We should use public transportation instead of driving a private car to reduce emissions from vehicle exhaust. Earth is our home. It is everyone's responsibility to protect the earth.
ReplyDeleteI think first of all we should save water. Each family should plant trees every year and use bicycles or public transportation as far as possible. Each mall should stop using disposable plastic bags and more paper bags or reusable green bags. We should also stop using disposable utensils because these disposable utensils cannot be recycled and cause great pollution to the global environment.
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ReplyDeleteIn now days, something in our daily life is pretty harmful to our environment, like plastic and wooden stuffs（because its need to cut a lot of trees), so for save our environment, we needs to use some thing reusable, for example, use fabric bags instead of plastic bags, use chopsticks and furnitures made by recycled materials, etc.
from Alex:
ReplyDeleteIn fact, it is impossible that earth will change because of one person. But there sure have something that everyone can do and it will make the earth better. For example, a common thing, we should stop throw the garbage everywhere. No one want to see a lot of garbage on the street, or park. Create a new idea to recycle garbage is scientist’s job, but what we need to do is try to Classify garbage, Keep garbage away from water sources and ecological environment. Maybe one person have really few power, but a big company might can do more. Such as stop produce the Highly contaminated product. I’m sure no one want see our earth become to the world that WALL·E lives.
I think we should walk to the place we want to go instead of driving a car little often. Most of the air pollutions today are caused by car’s off-gas, and we have a ten thousands times of ten thousands people are driving car every day. Since we can’t find something which is a staff we can use instead of gasoline, we should try to not drive very often, and we should do the same things for other situations but not only car. Avoiding pollutions, and protecting earth——our own and only planet, is our own abilities, if we don’t take care our home, no one else will do, so, let us start it today, try to not use car frequently.
ReplyDeleteI think we should use less disposable thing, it’s very bad for our environment, like plastic bag, it’s very hard to dispose with it, we only can bury it for thousand year, but is not good for our land and there is too much it, some of them get into sea, because of plastic bag there have a lot anmina dead and our beautiful sea become full of junk. We should plant more tree and try to walk or bike as more as possible, drive less car, the air pollution is very bad for human or animal. We have to protect our only home by ourself. It’s alreay getting bad because us, but it’s not too late, we should start those little things we can do to make our home better of us and our children.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I think we should recycling in our daily life. Don’t throw the trash all the where around. Use less plastic those many things can help us saving the earth a little. The important things are to pay out so that will make gane
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