The environmental issue is being considered increasingly urgent and important for society, since the future of humanity depends on the relationship established between nature and the use by man of available natural resources. While the environment goes through a crisis, humanity lives another, even more serious: a conflict of values, which can define the future of the planet. Ever since the industrial revolution in the 18th century, man's vision of the world has changed: he has left the role of mere adjutant and has become the protagonist, with the right to dominate nature and use its resources, as if it existed only to satisfy its needs. For this, efforts and sacrifices would be made, without considering the damage to biodiversity, the environment is the life of thousands of plants and species, as well as human life. The result of this direction is the current environmental crisis, which is fiercely manifested by changes in temperatures, polar melting, extinction of terrestrial and marine specimens, climatic events such as tsunamis, cyclones and hurricanes, such events clearly show that unscrupulous extraction must end as soon as possible.
The technology employed has evolved rapidly with undesirable consequences that worsen with equal speed. Exploitation of natural resources began to take place too intensively. Non-renewable resources, such as oil, threaten to be scarce. From where a tree was removed, hundreds are now withdrawn. Where some families lived, consumed some water and produced few debris, now millions of families live, demanding immense springs and generating tons of garbage per day, greater than the capacity for renewal of the planet, provoking water pollution, diseases ... These differences are determinant for the degradation of the environment where man is inserted. Whole systems of plant and animal life are drawn from their equilibrium. And wealth, generated in an economic model that favors the concentration of income, does not prevent the growth of misery and hunger. Humanity has become industrial is the result is that the atmosphere surrounding the planet has become increasingly loaded with gases from factories and cars. In addition, the deforestation of the forests and the construction of cities with little green and very concrete also contribute to disrupt the climate.
At school it is possible to work with the objective of showing students that all action and attitude to the environment can generate a positive or negative impact emphasizing that despite the size of the universe, the earth is the only known planet that provides conditions so that life exists and thrives. Temperature, air and water are the main factors that allow us to live here, and it is necessary to make future generations aware that they have more respect for the environment. They are small actions and attitudes in everyday life that can make a great difference.
The relationship between man and the environment, based on the undesirable tripod of noncompliance, inexhaustibility and irresponsibility, could lead to the most catastrophic predictions of the scarcity of natural resources, especially water, rendering life on earth in a few years' time impossible. Therefore, it is fundamental to substitute a vision based on the principles of sustainability, rationalization and responsibility, within which we are an integral part of the environment and responsible for protecting and raising the quality of life on the planet. The observation, the selection the information gathering the involvement of the student and also important for it to incorporate ethical values.
Through this thread, I would like to have a discussion about this big problem experienced by contemporary society with the environment. It is obvious that the environment aks for help, every day is a new challenge for all living beings, including the cause of this chaos, humans. A tip, an argument, a video, anything that serves as an awareness is more than necessary for us to acquire more knowledge, more ways to help the environment, do your part!