We Have Only Very Earth!

Lai Enyang/Student/National Taichung First Senior High School

Far from the ancient times, human beings have started to gain whatever they want from the nature. At first, they used to live under the circumstance of getting along with the Earth, namely, they got just what they needed and were content easily since they stood in awe of the nature. However, it was self-evidence that mortals have become more and more greedy and arrogant, they began to ask for the resource and plan to make profit from it, seeming to lose the conception of what the generations had passed down. As a result, the industrialization and commercialization appeared dramatically in the history and in the honor of exploiting the Mother Earth. She did not accuse of human anything, nor did she want them to feedback as sacrifice, she slightly endured and damages caused on her. She could absolutely be angry but choose to forgive us to her limit. Ultimately, being tired of withstanding the everlasting avarice of human, the Earth couldn't help but alarm them with fury. As a consequence, the weather of the globe start to change as well as the sea levels raise. Many countries face the future of being swallowed by the sea. While the hotter places become sultrier, the cold places become more freezing. People started to be aware that what they had already done was quite excessively than what should have been done. So they started to think about the future, attempting to solve the problems and saving the Earth. Now the question really important is: What is to be done?

First, in terms of government, what they should do is to make laws and policy about protecting the environment such as preventing the emission of greenhouse gases, which is the most serious problem today. On the other hand, they should control the development of economy and industry beyond the appropriate limitation. In addition, they should try to find energy such as wind power and solar energy. At the same time, promoting the cooperation between countries is the biggest task they should take so as to reach the goal of avoiding the global warming from becoming worse with the effort of all people around the world. Second, as far as civilians, what we should do is obviously far more than the government. Every individual has the responsibility to preserve the resource as a way to pursue the existence of people and the next generation. What should we do is to find out some tiny but actually energy-saving way to reduce the cost of energy. For example, we could turn off the light at the very time we leave the room; we could replace the traditional taps with water-saving ones ; we could also use fans instead of air conditioner. So much we could do, nevertheless, few of us could spare no effort to do it entirely.

The most important, we should cultivate the idea of living in an environmentally-friendly way. We should think twice before we do something that might have hurt the earth. This kind of idea has to be rooted in everybody ' s mine.

To sum up, the weather is getting strange day and night so all we could do is cut down on the waste of resources in our daily life. After all, we have only very Earth!