Learning from Nature

                Nature is the physical world and everything in it, place where we live and fulfill our needs. Nature provide everything for us, such as water, foods, clothing, and many materials, but what we do to reciprocate them? Nothing. At this time, there are more people who destroy the nature instead of caring them. Why they do that? Why they destroy it? What will happen then?

                Many people doesn’t know the importance of nature to their lives. NO! OUR LIVES! We depend on nature not vice versa. We can’t live without nature. Long time ago, many people really care of nature, because they knew that they cannot live without it and their descendants will need it, so they take care of nature for their descendants. They were not greedy. They exploit it as needed, not excessive, so that their descendants can also use it. How about now? How about NO! Now, many people ignore it. They took everything. There are overexploitation everywhere. They cutting down trees to create a huge place to live, however it’s too huge for them. They also exploit nature excessively just for make them looking good than others. Actually it’s not! What they do is destroy nature just for greed. What do you feel about it? Many people ignore it, and the others just “like”,”favorite”, and “share”, we need the real action! Not a “like” or “share” in social media!

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                 Today, many people can use water as many as they want. Have you ever see African people? They must struggle to get clean water. It’s really hard to get it. There are many pollutions going on, such as air pollution and light pollution. Long time ago, we can see many stars at night in any places without any telescope. Now, so many light pollution, it’s hard to see a star although with a telescope. How about air pollution? You know asthma? Asthma is a specific respiratory problem. Long time ago, asthma was a rare diseases. Today, asthma may affect as many as 334 million people and prevalence is rising. It is estimated that the number of people with asthma will grow by more than 100 million by 2025. It is one of the consequences of air pollution. There were less pollution many years ago. Now, there are pollution everywhere. Is that bad? Yes, it’s really bad. Can you imagine how our descendants will live with this pollution that will increase anytime? Do you want your descendants suffer? Today, we still can use water easily and breathe easily. How about 20 years later? Is it still easy? Many years later, there are water crisis everywhere, we can’t breathe easily because the air is contaminated by the pollution. Air is rare, disease everywhere. Maybe later, air won’t free anymore, we should pay for it. No one will have teeth or hair, or maybe human will be extinct. Hunger, violent, and greed would be rampant. 

                How to stop it? What can we do to prevent that happening? Is it too late? No, it’s not late. We can do something. Stop illegal logging, so there are many tree to prevent floods and landslides. The air will also be clean and we can breathe easily. Stop overexploitation, so there are many things our descendants can use. Don’t waste a land just for greedy! Create a high house instead of comprehensive house, so there are areas for planting. You also can do a simple way such as not littering. Therefore, our nature will stay clean. If you think littering is fine if it’s a small trash like candy wrapper, then imagine if everyone in the world or more that 7 billion people do that. Is that still fine? Another things that can we do is don’t waste water, use it as needed, don’t be greedy. Do recycling especially plastic, instead of wasting it, or it will be better if you do not use plastic. You can use paper bag or tote bag to go shopping instead of using a plastic. Wake up! We need a real action!

                What do you prefer? A world with pollution everywhere, water crisis, no free air, disease everywhere, global warming, and misery everywhere, or a world that has clean water, clean air, less pollution, free air, calm, and peaceful? You prefer the second one, don’t you? If so, let’s do the real action! Is not too late, you can begin with a simple one. The longer the time pass, the world will be better if we care about nature and not greedy. It’s not only for ourselves, it’s for our descendants too. More and more people care for nature, the better our world will be.