Conservation science and the health of the environment are very closely linked.
Without a healthy environment, no matter how hard you attempt to conserve a species or resource, it will ultimately be unable to survive because the environment will not be able to support it.
Mankind has been taking a toll on Earth’s environment and resources in the past 400 years creating all sorts of chaos for the conservation science world.
Just think about it–
In the past 200 years alone mankind has impacted the planet enough through deforestation, pollution, deforestation, and several other factors, to cause the Earth’s temperature and climate to increase at a rapid rate.
This is detrimental to our planet. Species of all kinds are unable to adapt to the rapid changes happening in the environment. In fact, the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia is DYING due to the rapidly rising temperatures and climate.
But this isn’t new.
If the use of fossil fuels is so detrimental to the environment why hasn’t it been outlawed? Is it because it will ‘damage’ the economy? Isn’t life and future generations more important than money?
The Green New Deal plan proposed by congressmen and women in the U.S. government has been under recent controversy for just that.
This plan outlines steps that need to be taken in order to ensure that the United States moves toward being environmentally responsible and hopefully help avoid the potential catastrophic impacts of climate change on future generations.
The GND outlines many important factors such as changes that need to be made to move toward being more environmentally considerate (the U.S. and other affluent nations tend to be the biggest offenders to the environment), and social issues such as wage stagnation and growing inequality in between economic classes.
Much of the push-back and controversy stems from the U.S.’s two main political parties basically being unable to agree on anything. That is not the only culprit however, as many people are also pushing-back on this proposal because of its ties to socialism and potential damaging impacts on the nation’s economy. Plus no plan is ever perfect and there are unseen flaws that would reveal themselves.
In my personal opinion, mankind as a whole needs to make some major moves for the sake of our planet and future generations that will follow us. I don’t know that the Green New Deal is going to be the exact way to go about these new changes, but it is a good start.
If anything is ever going to change we need to make a head-on-charge into the problem. If you don’t want it to hurt the economy, fine. Then figure out a way to change that also kick-starts the economy.
It is possible!
What it comes down to is that we must stop putting money before the health of our planet and the lives of future generations of people, like you and me, that will inhabit it.
What are your thoughts on the topic? I would love to hear them!
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