Environmental Perspective #1

<(8/17)/26.7 degree/cloudy/80% humidity/1013 hPa pressure> I went up the hill that is right next to the school. It was a humid day, so the way up to the benches was full of mud. When I arrived at the benches, I could see how the industrialization has changed the land. If industrialization had not occurred, I think the land that I saw would have had only a few traditional houses and been full of crops that were going to be harvested. Also, the air that I breathed in would have been fresher. However, unlike my imagination, what I actually saw with my eyes was totally different; it was the dark side of the industrialization. I could see black gas coming out from automobiles and buildings more crowded than trees. And, by looking at the crowded city, I felt guilty because I realized that humans destroyed the Earth only to make their lives more comfortable without considering the impacts of their deeds on other organisms that are living together with us on Earth. For example, through urbanization, people live in comfortable urban, but plants and organisms that used to habitat that area were forced to move and to lose their shelters. Also, industrialization and some other human activities have caused air pollution and global warming, which also took away homes of many animals, leading to extinction of some of those animals. Since humans have been devastating the Earth, I think humans should now be responsible for their past actions and try to protect the Earth, rather than continuing to destroy.