Human Greediness Impact to Natural Environment

We are living in the 21^st century; a science and technology world that can fulfill us with great physical and psychological comfort. The technologies we have these days provide us with the luxury of convenience, by filling up our daily lifestyles with the latest technology household appliances, such as refrigerator, personal computers, indoor air conditioning, heating and plumbing, and personal automobiles that the used of “endless fuel” in the list is infinite. Meanwhile we are also living in a disposable society, where it is not common place to have material goods fixed, but rather replaced. This is because of our lifestyle that caused us to dispose almost everything in the need of our convenient. Everyday we dispose uncountable tons of diapers, water bottles, contacts, and paintbrushes as our convenience is never-ending.

This convenient lifestyle coupled with our massive desire for material goods has created immense devastation to our Mother Earth; such as radioactive contamination, soil contamination, water pollution and air pollution. It can be said that we are the reason for our Earth now to come across a major issue of global warming. As according to the NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2005 was the warmest year since reliable, widespread instrumental measurements became available in the late 1800s, exceeding the previous record set in 1998 by a few hundredths of a degree Celsius.

Global warming is the observation of increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. The increase in the global temperatures can direct the in turn cause for other changes; that will include the rising sea level with the rate of melting polar ice in the North Pole, and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. These changes may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and tornados. Other consequences are including the higher or lower agricultural yields, glacier retreat, reduced summer stream flows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.

The climate system varies both through natural the "internal" processes as well as in response to variations in external "forcing" that come from both human and non-human causes, such as the solar activity, volcanic emissions, and greenhouse gases. However our scientific world has come to the consensus that the greatest contributor to the global warming is man.

This is because we humans are generating greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, as in our daily lifestyles it requires us to burn tons of fossil fuels in order to generate enough electricity current. While we are burning these fossil fuels, in fact we are producing addition nitrous oxides, methane and carbon dioxide into the environment. Furthermore, deforestation for building up new cities, housing areas, and industrial areas also generated additional carbon dioxide into the air compound. The deforestation will lessen the amount of carbon dioxide being use for photosynthesis by the tress. Every time a land is being cleared for cattle grazing, actually billions of tons of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere. Other human activity such as using of automobiles cause the additional nitrogen compounds and ozone, along with consuming the fuel produced by burning fossil fuels, and CFC’s that are being used in refrigerators.

Our human nature has made us for not only taken granted of our environment, but also start to tearing apart our beautiful environment. After being civilized, we have neglected the nature we used to live in; we even start to destroy the natural environment through our daily lifestyles. We are no longer concern about our Mother Nature; all that we do from time to time are just to find ways to please our conveniences and pleasures.

The greediness in human nature is the main key that indirectly caused such a great impact to our Mother Nature and even to ourselves, as we did not and will not be satisfy with the condition we are living in. Living in caves was not of any comfort at all, so we deforested and built houses and cities. Eating fruits and seeds were not sufficient for us, so we hunted down animals such as chickens, cows, lambs, and pigs. Then when these animals became our common diet, man started to search for more exotic food such as consuming dogs, horses, bears, wild boars, tigers and even the animals’ internal organs. Men are the reason for the extinction of these valuable species. Using horses and donkeys as transportations were not fast and convenient enough, so man made cars and airplanes that need a lot of fuel combustions. The natural wind was not windy enough so man made air conditionings that require CFCs. It is clear enough that men are the destroyer of Mother Nature and also the contributor of all the negative impact of suffering.

However as we became modernized during industrial revolution, the selfishness and greediness in us have given more and more devastated more serious impacts to our mother nature. Each day tons of toxic chemicals are being thrown into the oceans and air from our industrial factories. These factories do not concern the impact of their waste especially methane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, sulfur and ammonia that will certainly jeopardize the environment. We or the owners of these factories did not take any concern about it, all that was and is concern will be the profitability that can be provided through the “process of jeopardizing our mother nature”.

Furthermore the greediness in us continues to grow and finally caused not just one time but twice of World War to happen. World War especially World War Two has caused a greater negative impact not only to human being as well as the mother nature especially soils could not be productive and the people whom lived in Nagasaki and Hiroshima have to suffer tumor disease from the explosion of the atomic bomb that launched by the United State of America.

Under the influence of atomic bomb has drawn to the development of nuclear science, this nuclear science has introduced radioactive contamination to our environment of which can remain lethally radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. For example the Lake Karachay which is named by the World Watch Institute as the "most polluted spot" on earth. This is because nuclear weapons continued to be tested in the Cold War and this Lake Karachay is served as a disposal site for the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War especially in 1950s and 1960s.

Human and the owners of those factories all over the world should not just only concerning about the monetary profits from their businesses, but to realize it is our responsibilities to keep and to fix back the balance of the nature environment. This is because even we will never know the effects of global warming, if global warming is getting more and more worst in time. However our mother nature has shown us couple signs of its “angriness” towards our greediness and selfness behaviors as we have been experiencing several extraordinary natural disasters in this recently years, such as hurricanes, floods, polar ice caps, tsunamis and typhoons.

I think we don’t want the global warming to trigger the cooling trend as the melting polar ice caps might disrupting the flow of carrying the heat from the sun that arrives at the equator to the north by the ocean, and once again pushes the Earth into an ice age just like what was being described in the movies of “The Days After Tomorrow”. So we should know consider to take up whatever “price” in order to slow down or stop global warming as well as to fix the imbalance of our Earth; otherwise our grandchildren or our great grandchildren will definitely be the one whom have to pay all the “prices” of what we are now jeopardizing the environment.