Seven Environmental Principles Of Planet Earth PDF

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Seven Environmental Principles offer protection to our natural world. They act as guidance for judges and decision-makers, giving laws shape and meaning....

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ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLE 1. Nature knows best.

CONCRETE EXAMPLE/ EXPLANATION  This environmental principles is simple yet meaningful and impactful for all the living and non-living organism. The nature shows a process that helps to balance and maintain the ecosystem equilibrium. If a person abide the right process of contributing positivity for the environment plants and other organism will live in a good place that will ensure the sustainability of natural

2. All forms of life are important.



resources. World is diversified variety of all forms of life that exist. It involve plants, animals, and micro-organism paired with genes, and the ecosystem of which they our part of biodiversity. All God creation has it owns role and purpose.

3. Everything is connected to everything else.



Whatever you give surely it will return back to you. If you choose to do good for the earth the outcome will be also good but if you choose the wrong one definitely you will suffer and will affect

the others in the environment. In environment, all the biotic and abiotic components interact to each other to make sure the system is balanced and sustained. Everything is connected so start

recalibrating

our

minds

and

redirecting our vision for the betterment

4. Everything changes.



of the environment. In global ecosystem or biophysical world where we live it is natural to experienced changes. For example, variety

of

changes

metamorphosis

and

in

terms

of

morphological

changes in living organism. Increasing amount of gases in earth atmosphere. Climate change that can easily harm the abiotic and biotic organism. In order, to lessen

this

harmful

and

negative

change, we should be responsible, knowledgeable and considerate to other living

organism.

Let’s

educate

ourselves and be accountable in every

5. Everything must go somewhere.



action we do. Everything ends up elsewhere. It

doesn’t just disappear. In consumption of by-products it always goes back to environment. Everything that we throw such plastics, pieces of paper, left-over food, and other waste have to go

6. Ours is a finite earth.



somewhere. Everything we need is provided by the nature such as like food, water, energy, minerals, and air. All the things in earth have its own limitations. For some instances

natural

resources

is

inaccessible happen due to pollution, excessive

extraction,

diminishing

forest, and illegal mining. Renewable resources are those that can be easily replenished by natural cycle process while non-renewable resources are those

that

cannot

be

replenished

through process of natural cycles. Although renewable resources can be replenished,

it

is

important

to

understand that these are renewable only if they are not overused and not destroyed

from

factors

such

as

pollution. Start to do micro efforts so that we will have a macro effect to save

7. Nature is a beautiful and we are stewards of God’s creation.



our home. God created everything we need to take good care of our mother earth. We are responsible for what will happen in the environment.

God

gave

us

the

obligation for us to save, protect, and preserve His creations so don’t waste the opportunity given to us....