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Enviromental awareness

Environmental awareness proves important for several reasons; it fosters a sense of connection to the
natural world, promotes sustainable development and encourages conservation of irreplaceable natural
resources and vulnerable plant and animal species. Environmental awareness essentially serves as an
educational tool, helping people around the world understand the economic, aesthetic and biological
importance of preserving resources and reducing or eliminating the harmful impacts of man-made
alterations. Environmental awareness or education helps people understand the consequences of
human activities on various lands and identifies remedial solutions.

When it comes to making a difference, environmental advocates typically champion a single issue. They
identify an area of concern, such as oil drilling or water purification, then begin a campaign, educating
others of these issues.

Advocates develop a solid understanding of their chosen topics, then educate coworkers, friends, and
their communities on problems surrounding those topics. When engaging in environmental awareness,
advocates demonstrate reactive and proactive responses. They develop aversions to certain human
activities detrimental to the environment, which in turn elicits an emotional response

To most people, environmental awareness is all about global warming, or climate change, as it is now
known. The central theme is that increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 will inevitably lead to disastrous
changes in weather patterns that threaten the future of the planet and its ability to support human life.
Since burning fossil fuels is the main source, labelling CO2 emissions as the problem has many knock-on
implications. In a nutshell, human activity and development, and therefore human beings themselves,
become the problem.

The solution of reducing CO2 emissions has similar knock-on implications. It necessarily requires limiting
industrial activity and the consumption of material goods as well as global population reduction to
achieve a smaller ‘carbon footprint’. This whole picture of problem and solution rests on one very
questionable assumption.

meaningful environmental awarnessThe view from outside the Matrix is very different. Using CO2 as the
murder weapon, humanity is being framed as the culprit destroying the environment. However, if we
look at the facts this amounts to getting hold of the wrong end of the stick. It is pollution of the
environment that threatens both humanity and the planet. Individual human beings are not generally a
threat to the environment, but the environment can be a very real threat to human beings.
Governments and their nefarious activities threaten both!

There is a pressing need to identify a genuine environmental awareness rooted in the facts, that will not
only serve individual human health but also save the planet. A self-centred approach focusing on our
individual personal health requirements constitutes a win-win environmental awareness as opposed a
‘bolt on’ additional burden of concern.

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