[STEEM-BOUNTY] Saving The Earth - Important Sh*t Or Bullsh*t?

An article from another Steemian inspired me to ask myself if I did anything to help save the world...

Human 'Nature'

We, humans, are killing the earth. Every minute of every day we are destroying our home, the only survivable planet in the entire universe. And the worst thing about it is that we know it, but we simply carry on with a smile on our face.

We're cutting down entire forests (between 3.5 and 7 bilion trees each year), use nuclear power plants to provide us with electricity, we pollute entire oceans with plastic and other trash. We use chemicals to grow our food, we overhunt, we overfish, and we are close to killing more than half of the wildlife on earth in just 50 years.

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In the so called 'first world', we're producing too much food, draining the soil from all nutrients. But hey, we want our carrots straight and our apples round.

What we are not using is sent to the other side of the world in big, polluting ships or plains. More of those polluters go back and forth to deliver the products we buy in countries thousands of miles from here, because we want to save a buck.

An average person here drives his car to the other side of the country to go to work, while someone from the other side of the country does exactly the same to get to work here. Both are throwing cigarette buds and trash out of the windows of their cars on their way.

I assume I don't need to go on?

We are, in fact, our own worst enemy. Overconsumption, overpopulation, global warming,... it's going to cost us more than we will be prepared to pay.

You Can Make A Difference

We all feel bad about all this, but that doesn't really reflect in our lives.

I admit that I still buy stuff packed in plastic, and put it in a plastic bag before I get into my old, very polluting car. I want my (little) piece of meat every day and I buy stuff on AliExpress and such.

Still, you'll never catch me littering - I'd rather fill my handbag or pockets with cigarette buds than to throw them on the ground. Three quarters of the year, I eat veggies I've grown in my own garden. A garden that is completely free of chemicals.

But if I'm honest, that's just peanuts. I could do a whole lot more to make my ecological footprint a lot smaller.

Fortunately, there are people who care enough to actually dó something. Yesterday, I've read an article written by Hive account@alexisdauliac, a young French guy who travelled all the way to Australia with his girlfriend to clear the beaches from trash and invasive weeds that are threatening the the native plants.

Some people might consider this to be pretty extreme, but I have great admiration and respect for people who are actually doing something.

You should read the article. It's in French, but with all our modern technology, a translation is only a right-click away. I read the article in English, and even translated it's a very pleasant piece to read.

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The Australian Dream: Volunteer for the protection of the Australian Coast

After reading it, I couldn't help myself and started to analyze what I was actually doing to help save our planet. And I came to a sad conclusion. To be honest, I feel a little disgusted: there is so much more I could do without even having to put in a lot of effort.

What About You?

I came to that horrifying conclusion, and I started wondering if other people were just like me or not. Because if so, the future is looking not that great.

So here's my question for you:

Do you have your ways to limit the pressure human kind puts on the earth? Do you take initiatives - big or small - to help save the earth?

If so, I can't wait to hear about it. If not, I'm curious to hear about your reasons.

I'll put a Hive account@steem-bounty on this post, and the answers with the best arguments will get their share of it - no matter whether you are doing something to save our enviroment or not.