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Sustainability

Sustainability has become a part of everyday life and this it is to help make the world a better place for future generations and to keep nature as beautiful as it is today.

Our planet is a wonderful place and if we don’t at least try to preserve it for further generations then they will not be able to appreciate the beauty of the nature and they will take it for granted like some current generations have. There are so many little things the population can do every day just to make the earth last that little bit longer then the predictions if we live how we live now. If we keep using non-renewable resources like we are currently then the main part of resources will be gone by 2062. Since the calculations from 2012 rainforest and forests are meant to be completely wiped out in the next 196 years which would be 191 years from this year’s date (but this not included forest that are currently being grown).

What are the problems with the world? One problem with the world is pollution. Pollution is one of the main factures of climate change. People ask the question why does pollution happen? Pollution happens when fumes escape into the air and then it goes from there to the atmosphere which then can also damage the ozone layer. If the ozone layer is damaged then it can cause holes to be created, this can cause damage to people because the ozone is the atmospheric layer that is protecting us from the ultra violet rays from the sun and this can be a factor to help cause skin cancer. The melting of the ice burgs is an effect of climate change. The ice burgs melting is not going to affect the sea level until the part of the iceberg of which that is on top of the water melts, that is when the sea level is affected, it’s the melting of snow and ice on the land that is also another contributing factor of which is going to affect sea level, if you put an ice cube in a glass of water, the level will rise but as the ice cube melts the water level will not change, Another is that calculations have worked out that the 2012 predictions show that the Arctic will have an ice-free summer by 2030, so this means by 2030 there will no more ice in the Arctic of which will make some marine life suffer but this could mean that water is freezing somewhere else.

What are the 6 R’s? The 6 R’s are 6 words which start with the letter R and of which have a connection to recycling, one is recycle. Recycle is to turn waste into a reusable material. The second is rethink, this is if you have an old table for example and you don’t want it anymore you could think of something else to use it for so you could give it to a charity shop or give it to a friend. Another is refuse, this is to use to buy any material or product that is not sustainable. There is also reduce which is to reduce the amount of energy used to manufacture a product. Repair is another one and this is to repair anything that is broken so it can be used again. Reuse is to use anything that has lost its use to use it as something else, and last of all there is rethink, this is to think about an old object and see if there another use for this product or if you could take it apart to use so you could repair something else.

One of the 6 r’s is recycling. Recycling is one of the main ways to help maintain the world but one of the main problems with that is that not everyone recycles. The government have not been able to think of other ways to discard of general rubbish which is very difficult to recycle because recycling it will cause more damage than good. Thermo-setting plastics can’t be recycled because it can’t be re-moulded once it reaches a certain temperature.

What is a managed forest? A managed forest is a forest which is carefully managed so that trees are cut down and they are replaced with saplings that eventually grow into trees, this is a skilfully managed system. A managed forest is for the reproduction of more trees when they are cut down so the ratio to trees cut down to tree saplings planted is 1 to 10, so every tree cut down there is 10 saplings planted and this is a way of which the population is trying to recover the trees of the planet and to try and grow the population of the animals which are becoming extinct.

Climate change is one of the main changes that has happened to the earth since humans have inhabited the world, this is due to the human species becoming more intelligent as time goes on and this causes more objects of which can harm the environment to be made but on the other hand with the intelligence of the humans on earth and with their intellect they should be able think of ways to help slow down climate change, stop climate change or even eventually reverse it and even if that does happen it will takes decades even possibly centuries but it could if the species of this planet just stop, think for at least a minuet because all they do is think of them and not the planet.

Is climate change true or is it a cover up? In my opinion Climate change could just be cover up for the world changing. Since humans became intelligent on this earth there is research which shows that the earth had less of a tilt on its axes, if the worlds tilt is increasing this could be an explanation for why the seasons have been not as they are ‘meant to’, so this would mean why we have been having an ‘early’ summer and a ‘early’ winter, it has been said that this year is one of the most obvious for this change. Another reason for this explanation is because in the past few years there has been more tornadoes, tsunamis and earthquakes and this could be the earth moving due to the increasing tilt of the earth so this would also cause the equator to move and this could be why there was the strongest earth quake ever recorded in Scotland which caused homes and buildings to shake. This could be an explanation for why climate change I not real. This is one thing that can’t be helped by humans because it is a natural cause, this is the planets way of changing so the aftermath for this could be a discovery of new land that was once drowned with water and could also cause land as we know it to become sea bed.

How could the coral wreaths be saved from pollution and rubbish? The litter in the sea is gradually getting cleared up by volunteers and companies working to clear up the oceans, one reason for this is to try to save marine life which is becoming endangered or even to prevent marine life from adapting into ways which could cause more danger to the other marine life.

In conclusion sustainability is one of the very few things which can be classed as a subject of which can hold humanity together and of which can also help humanity work together to make the world a better place.

Stephanie Bigsby Steph Bigsby (talk) 14:32, 15 October 2017 (UTC)