Creating A Healthy Future For Our Children with Green Living

Throughout the world, nature is being alarmingly impacted by man-made emissions, spillage and effluent, two of the most obvious effects being climate change and acid rain. It looks as if we're dismissing the damage we're doing to this amazing planet of ours. How wonderful it would be if we could breathe clean air in our neighborhoods, uncontaminated by poisons and toxins resulting from our way of living. The thing is, this is no longer possible; we humans have made certain that with the pollution we've created we'll be breathing in airborne poisons, which can impair our habitat and ultimately our health.

Our immense oceans, which make up the majority of the earth's surface, are being poisoned by pollutants, mainly toxins and oil, which have a devastating impact on the life found in the ocean and as a result of that it affects us. For many people who made a living from the sea as fishermen they no longer have a job because of pollution. Since way back in time, fishing has fed and given economic means to a substantial segment of our population, all of which is currently being taken from many. Anyone wanting to be persuaded of how destructive oil spills are, need look no further than the recent Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, which cost billions to finally fix and left many unemployed. The complete ecosystem was damaged through the large numbers of wildlife that perished, avian as well as marine, causing repercussions along the whole of the food chain. All of this just to obtain oil, a great example of humans putting themselves before other creatures and the planet.

Incredible sums are spent on oil exploration when the money could be spent investing in alternative green energy methods or research into green energy. Existing green energy options, which do no damage to the environment, are capable of delivering a lot of our energy needs. Given that the sun shines, solar panels, for example, can heat water and output additional electricity as well. And something that's every bit as simple in concept, wind turbines, uses another free resource (wind) to provide energy. So long as the wind blows - and many turbines work efficiently at lower wind speeds - a wind turbine will work, which is a neat advantage. The search for green energy alternatives is now more and more important as we near the end of our oil reserves, not to mention the harm oil does to the environment. It is not unthinkable that, maybe the devastation of pollution and global warming could not just be stopped, but possibly reversed.

The first beneficiaries would be ourselves, and naturally our descendants in the longer term. As an alternative to being at the mercy of intense weather patterns and harsh living conditions, our children, and their children, could live contentedly in a clean, beautiful, and bounteous environment. Beginning to live green, in addition to preserving the environment, will be the only way we can ensure this.

It will be a tremendous and rewarding achievement to constrain the harm to our home, planet earth, and it's environment, but it will take time, much money and lots of work.