Is Environment ''Suffering''?

There is no doubt that environment is indeed ''suffering''. One can easily prove this by flipping open the newspaper, and there would most likely be at least one certain article concerning environment, be it oil spills, deforestation, ice caps melting, global warming issues, etc. All these are actually repercussions from the selfish acts of mankind, compromising our environment for the benefits of ourselves. For an instance, the countless amount of paper generated each day for our use, have sacrificed a significant amount of trees from the environment, stripping bare some of the rainforests in some countries. This act of deforestation, sparked off a chain reaction, causing environmental problems such as global warming, which results in increased temperature, and leads to ice caps melting in the polar regions, which in turn causes flooding that deluge low-lying lands, taking away innocent lives and also in a way damaging the environment due to the loss of land.

One can also take a look around ourselves. How often can we see greeneries and mother nature beauties in our modern society? High rise buildings and structures, high class restaurants, sport facilities, have all replaced the forests initially there, causing environmentalists to protest, urging policymakers to initiate a ban on cutting down more forests and destroying our natural environment.

Furthermore, even the food that we obtain for consumption have resulted in environmental problems indirectly, such as desertification. To meet our overwhelming demand for food supply, farmers have intensively used their land to increase outputs, causing the soil to be exhausted, resulting in the land being barren. Overtime, the land is being abandoned for use and gradually turns into a desert by several other factors.

To sum it all up, it is true that the environment is ''suffering''. This is certainly due to our selfish acts, thereby causing permanent damage to our surrounding environment for the sake of our own benefits. Mankind should really start to do something about this before the consequences become too severe for us to handle.

-Edmund