NINE ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND MY TENTH

1. Nature knows best this is the most basic principle of all. This means that we must not go against the nature if we want nature still to supply us what we need. This is because nature gives us what we need all the time and if we continue to abuse it there will no longer be left for us. 2. All forms of life are important. As we say in Bio, all organisms have their own ecological niche. Just like the first principle, this also talks about the imbalance in nature if any part of it changes. 3. Everything is connected to everything else. All the components in the ecosystem are important. Any interruption in any part of it may cause to an imbalance. And imbalances are not good. 4. Everything changes. Change is said to bee the only thing that is permanent. Change is the diverting or transforming one thing to another. 5. Everything must go somewhere. Putting away something doesn t mean they are out of existence. It only means that it went somewhere else and there it will exist. Just like energy, it doesn t cease to exist when we are done using it; it only changes its form. 6. Ours is a finite earth. We only have one earth to use. And the earth we have is not renewable when totally destroyed. The only thing that we can do is to continue renewing those things that are renewable while keeping or conserving those things that are non-renewable. 7. The amount of life nature can support is limited. With an exponentially increasing population, there will come a time when the earth can not anymore supports any of the needs we need. We must try as much as we can to keep ourselves from multiplying fast so that the earth can renew some of its resources before all of it deteriorates. 8. Human progress must consider its effect on nature. Everything that we do with nature has an effect on it, positive or negative. So we must try not to do those things that have negative effects so that there is no imbalance that will take place. 9. Nature is beautiful and we are stewards of God's creation. Everything that you see on earth, which is naturally occurring, is a creation of God. And we as also a creation of God must take care of these creations because it is one of the responsibilities given to us. My 10th Principle 10. Things we use up must be replenished. It is as simple as that. It is a basic thing that almost all of us unconsciously know. We must replace things that we use so for the next people that might need it they will also have something to consume. Source: http://lylscience.blogspot.com/2010/06/nine-environmental-principles.html

Neal Bryan V. Velasco II-Champaca