I always imagine a dystopian world far into the future when we have to discuss the detrimental impact that humans have on our planet but as I have mentioned before in other discussion posts, I truly believe we as humans have the ability to turn things around and of course everything is trial and error, as how would we have known plastic was going to be a major problem until we got through the process. Humans certainly do unintentionally (not always as it can be intentional from the start) at first contribute to the destruction of ecosystems and then it becomes intentional when they are now aware of their destruction yet they continue with their actions. Let us examine the desert as an example of human activity and whether it is beneficial or harmful.
The Desert
All deserts have one thing in common is that they are arid and can be divided into five types according to the causes of their dryness; subtropical, coastal, rain shadow, interior, and polar. It covers one-fifth of the land area and is home to
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The rich get richer, the poorer get poorer and our earth will continue to be raped of its resources contributing to the dire depletion and destruction of our ecosystems. I know people say every little help counts, like cycling to work, recycling, upcycling and cleaning up, sure all this does help and contribute to the well-being of our planet, but as Lorax says in Dr. Seuss book “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not,” I believe that the 1% that have all the ‘wealth’ should be the ones to change and contribute their monetary resources to the many projects that exist to save the planet, only then we can see an expeditious change. We do live in a world of