What is Ecological Sustainability? and What are the measures we have to take in order to achieve this within one's community?

     The worlds increasing population 

     In 1820 there were around one billion people in the entire world. Today, that is less than the population of China alone. The world's population has rapidly increased in the last 50 years. This year our population has grown to 7 billion, each year thousands of babies are born. And when the population increases so those our needs, wants, and waste. This means that there are now more people using the same amount of natural resources and more people polluting the earth. At the same time it would also mean that there are more people to help and contribute to a great society, advancement of medicine and more. 

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This is a line to get into a train station in the Philippines. Because of increasing fuel costs, Filipinos are choosing to take public transportation instead.

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      The idea of ecological sustainability is to create a balance between our ecological, social and economic needs. Our needs of today must be taken care of in such a way that it does not negatively impact the needs of the next generations.  This means using our natural resources wisely so that these resources are available and are still in good condition for the next generations to use. It is a fact that humans have the tendency to overuse our natural resources,  leaving nothing but polluted water and infertile soil. Ecological sustainability is the belief that all humans must use resources wisely and efficiently so that these resources become exhausted or never over polluted.



     It is also another fact now that if we do not start and take the human race along with everyone else on earth would die or go extinct because of the lack of natural resources that are still in good condition. To understand this better we need to know and understand ecological degradation and the measures we can take up against it.

Understanding ecological degradation

   Ecological degradation  is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of wildlife. In order to solve this problem we have to take action and try to rehabilitate the environment of one's community. The major problems are deforestation, water, soil, and air pollution, acid rain, agricultural runoff , global warming and many many more. 

   To stop this problem we need to plant more trees (reforestation), have proper water disposals, reduce the use of putting to much artificial fertilizers, use of dynamite fishing, use of cars, smoke and etc., throwing trashes properly, and just try to reduce pollution as much as we can. 
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The world before ecological degradation.









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Before there were crystal skies, clear and clean sea water, and trees that were filled with fruits or vegetables just waiting to be harvested. I have tried swimming in a place that is overflowing with marine life and is clearly being well taken care of. The result is that picture on the left. It has the best water and environment to relax, swim, get a tan, or just to have fun with family and friends. 

This photo was captured by me at the North side of Cebu City, Philippines

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I have  also experienced going to a place that is filled with trees and wild life. There was fresh air everywhere, animals running around, laughing children, and just smiling faces everywhere. There were plants being planted beautifully that they grew because of the perfect environment and the proper care for their soil. 

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how sure are we that fifty years from now what we are experiencing today can be experienced by our grandchildren and their grandchildren?

Now, especially in the Philippines we occasionally use air-conditioned because of our hot climate. We occasionally contribute to human waste and pollution. I believe anything we do can cause a ripple effect, good or bad. Just by not throwing your thrash properly can contribute to floods which would then contribute to traffic, then it will become a hazardous material that some animals might accidentally consume and will then be intoxicated and die, it would also end up on lakes, ponds, seas , oceans and etc. once and will contaminate our water clean and clear. An example is this picture below. 

The world after by ecological degradation and pollution.








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One simple plastic that is not recycled and not thrown properly will make a huge difference in the destruction of our environment and the death of other species, at the same time throwing that simple thrash will save dozens of innocent animals and will make the environment cleaner, healthier and a lot more suitable for living creatures to live in. 

blurry though you can see that in this picture is a mountain being stripped from trees and is currently going through a lot of deforestation because illegal loggers cut trees from there and they do not bother to plant new ones.

It broke my heart to see this once beautiful mountain become less of a mountain and more rock. 





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Isn't it funny how we were given everything? and how little by little that everything is being destroyed and we have no one else to blame but ourselves.  The world has given us everything, now it is our turn to give back.