5 AQUINO

GEC008 – Ethics
ESSAY

One of the biggest ways that the environment is affected by poverty is

through deforestation. Forests provide the world with clean air, in addition to working
as “sink holes” that help reduce the drastic climate changes seen in the world today.
With the increasing level of deforestation taking place, the environment is taking a
heavy blow and finding it difficult to recover. Impoverished communities, unaware of
the errant, harmful ways in which they use natural resources, such as forest wood
and soil, are continuing the destructive cycle that spirals the environment further
downward. The more the worldwide populace develops, the more weight is set on
the earth. Each person expends a lot of assets from the earth, and with such a large
number of births beginning from poor networks, the weights put on nature become
heavier and heavier every day.
“Being a farmer is like being a priest; you take a vow of poverty and make a
pact with the lord that no typhoon will come and destroy your crops." a senator said.
It implies that many poor Filipinos only rely on the faring in order to survive. So they
pray for our almighty God that no typhoon will come that will destroy their crops. As
population growth it also increase the demand of food especially to the families that
will no longer have the capacity to provide their personal needs.

While individuals living in neediness have a tiny effect on worldwide

ecological issues, for example, environmental change, they can devastatingly affect
their neighborhood condition. Soils might be disintegrated trying to build crop yields,
fish stocks destroyed to give nourishment and neighborhood woods annihilated for
timber and kindling. These activities, alongside expanding strife among people and
natural life and chasing of creatures for nourishment can hug affect biodiversity.

We as a primary consumer we get our needs to our resources which came

from the environment. We should always think the future before doing illegally that
will harm to the environment. We have the capacity to do such things that will protect
and preserve our natural resources for the future generations. Let us serve as the
protector of our mother earth not a destructor.