Environmental Sustainability for Earth and Ocean

Planet Earth - our home. Some of us are very neat and orderly about our own homes and others are not, but when it comes to Planet Earth, it pays to be orderly and consider "Where does trash go?" It doesn't just disappear when you throw it away. It has to go somewhere and either it breaks down into its organic elements, and disappears back into the soil so that new things can be created, or it stays around, wreaking environmental havoc and turning into new chemicals.

Pete Seeger wrote a very catchy song named "Garbage, Garbage, Garbage." In this song, he described the pathway a piece of garbage takes its final destination - a resting place where it should decompose, but often does not due to industrial manufacturing techniques. Every life action from going out to eat to ordering coffee, to celebrating holidays or doing school assignments has the element of garbage involved. Coffee grounds may be harmless enough - they go back to earth, but what about manufactured junk that is no longer useful but was made to be sold, not to be used? Peter Seeger even mentions the human propensity to fill up the sea with garbage and after the historical oil spill, that is definitely something to consider - that we human beings could take a beautiful planet and wreak havoc on it.

When you buy something, the question is: where does the packaging go? One person's garbage wouldn't be a huge deal on earth, but cumulatively speaking, the garbage of the whole human race stacks up and stacks up and does not disappear and does not enhance soil or wildlife. It is basically like having a garbage dump in your living room. Most people make more of an attempt on their housework and taking out the trash than that, but when it comes to the planet, we seem to freely assume that as long as there is somewhere else to put the nonbiodegradables, that we are safe as a human race. We're not. Everything affects everything else.

How many things does a person really need? How many consumable things could a person use, and moreover, could they be earth-friendly instead? Burning the trash pollutes the air and then human beings and animals breathe it coming down with all manner of diseases and then drugs and medicine attempt to heal and cannot always, the rain washes the air pollution down to the ground where it can be taken into plants to contaminate or mutate our food supply. It all started with the "I wants." Industrial manufacture will be glad to charge you for what you think you need, polluting the air and water in the process of making it. How much can we turn back to earth-centered, earth-friendly products which will degrade when subjected to the natural elements?