Most Americans believe that environmental protection is important both in terms of self-preservation, or a wider vision of the spiritual world. Teaching ecological principles, your children could make a difference in their future quality of life. But who can really everything? I can not say a greenhouse gas produced from a GMO? What is Kyoto? The environmental primer covers ten basic questions that parents really need to understand healthyThe decisions for our children and our planet.
1) Chemicals. At the same time, the industrial revolution (ie machines which usually was a big job to do, people) has a more comfortable life provided it is somewhere around 70,000 new chemicals introduced into our lives. These chemicals are due to the increase in diseases such as asthma, cancer, and ADHD (not to mention obesity) accompanied. From cleaning products for wood paneling, carpeting and vinyl, we are using chemicals that overloadsserious reactions in children whose immune systems are less developed, and absorb more pollutants per kilogram of body weight than adults. Most plastics are made of oil, combined with various chemicals. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is very toxic - just take a breath of a new piece of stuff. 'S "new smell" of a building machine, or even a plastic toy is a warning that toxic "volatile organic compounds" are filling your lungs and your family. What: Use natural cleaning products that contain no chemicals, and give you the value-added that a huffable. To ask when building or renovation of a house or office, for environmentally friendly building materials. When you shop for toys, look at the clothes, dishes, postcards, etc., for products manufactured from cotton, glass and other natural and recycled materials. Take your own cloth bags on all your purchases.
2) oil. Even if oil is becoming scarce, we continue to burnas there is an endless supply. Most of the oil in the ground has been or is developing or politically treacherous desert. The oil that we use more continuous, less will be more wars and we must be preserved for them. What to do: always combine trips that require driving. Turn off the lights and TV when you leave the room and use the electric heater and air-conditioning sparingly - even if you're not worried about the money- At least save the oil.
3) carbon dioxide. If the oil burning cars and factories, which produce carbon dioxide at such extreme levels, the warming of our climate. CO2 is one of the "greenhouse gases", so called because they transform our planet into a greenhouse. (If you are not in a greenhouse for the last time, think of a sauna.) NASA expects that 2005 was the warmest year ever recorded. Only a warmer climate has already melting ancient glaciers, rising sea levels andCreate storms as hurricane season record companies in 2004. Iceberg, which for centuries have contributed to the earth tectonic plates are available to melt it. So expect more movement, ie, earthquakes, underwater volcanoes and tsunamis. But committed to the Kyoto Protocol by 141 countries, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions signed, the signature of the worst polluters is missing, the U.S. Although there is general consensus in the scientific community worldwide, the United StatesGovernment continues to deny that greenhouse gases are indeed warming the climate. What to do: Make your next car a hybrid, take public transportation or carpooling. Support organizations working to reduce global warming. The people on the beaches, you can check to move.
4) the trees and the oceans. The trees and oceans are unanswered by Mother Nature carbon dioxide. They can suck CO2 and give back oxygen. But we have to produce 4 billion trees a year, cutting millions of junk e-mailThat no one reads. All the oil and other waste discharged into the sewer and ends up in water in the oceans, which absorb CO2 capacity. What to do: teach respect for nature and all that it offers for us, and lift it to see your children, Litter unthinkable. Get off the mailing list for catalogs just throw it away. Purchase of paper / wood products made from renewable resources such as cork, bamboo, seaweed, hemp, when possible.
5) Air pollution. CoalBurning electrical plants, industrial plants and smelters and cars, are also filling our air with noxious sulfur, nitrogen (the main ingredient of acid rain) and ozone. Not only damage to buildings, plants and animals, pollution is the main culprit of the great increase of asthma and skin cancer. People, the U.S. government is also part of the problem. The new "Clear Skies Act" is easier to corporate polluters than the old "Clean Air Act." What to do:E-mail the President, your senators and representatives on these issues. It takes less than 5 minutes to get all four at the non-partisan http://www.votesmart.org website and email. Spend 10 minutes and you can also find out how they voted on environmental issues. Contribute and vote for the candidates to make our environment a priority.
6) water. Irresponsible and inadequate wastewater management are already living forces hundreds of millions of people worldwide lack access to cleanWater. It was not long before half the world with this reality. In the U.S., one in four of the largest American industrial plants in violation of the standards of clean water. Corporate animal factories are a regular source of water pollution, contaminated runoff from animal waste, such as rivers and lakes nearby. About 40,000 times a year, causing floods antiquated sewer system to overflow, spilling sewage into lakes, rivers and coastal waters. Instead of the problem, funding ofThe upgrade of these systems has been drastically cut and a new mix of policies will be introduced in the treated wastewater into waterways the United States intentionally fired at high tide. Although American wetlands serve as filters for pollution and flooding and other storms, almost 60,000 acres of wetlands are destroyed each year. What to do: Use water sparingly. Water the lawn early in the morning and no water, to install, even better, drought-resistant plants. Sweep the sidewalkInstead of clean water. Turn off water while washing the car clean, my teeth and shave. Run a full load of laundry and dishes. Install water-saving plants. Save rainwater and the water waiting to get to run too hot for you for watering plants.
7) waste. Most of our waste goes to landfill - the food, diapers, plastic, paper, glass and metal, as well as tires, batteries, cameras, mobile phones and computers (full of toxic chemicals and heavy metals), thenot to recycle will be thrown on other mountains of garbage. These bases are often sloppy mess a lot of things wrong with the surrounding soil and groundwater. A new landfill in North Texas will be 25 stories high when it is full, after which open another. Landfills also produce a lot of greenhouse gases like CO2 and methane. And then there are the nuclear waste they produce more, even if they do not seem to find where it is stored. What to do: Get serious launderingall you can. Then increase the demand for products made from recycled materials, asking shop anywhere in fact.
8) of chlorine. Most of the garbage that is dumped is not burned. This includes a lot of paper products that have been bleached white by the chlorine. Combustion generates highly toxic chlorine chemicals called dioxins. Sound familiar? Dioxin is the poison that almost killed the Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenkov. You've probably seen pictures of himpockmarked face the news. What to do: Buy paper products that have not been bleached with chlorine, which is available in grocery stores progressive. Watch out also for the chlorinated compounds in foods.
9) food. When you go shopping, unless it specifically says the food is organic, then it is probably loaded with pesticides and genetically modified organisms (or GMOs / GEOS) has developed, while most of the meat and dairy products, antibiotics, steroids and other including hormones. Antibiotics arebecause of overcrowded conditions in which animals are kept before slaughter. However, these additives should not be displayed on placards or labels. Despite all the protests, we do not know really what is adding this stuff, our food supply is doing for us, but can not be good. Disease-fighting antibiotics are at risk if you eat the bacteria more resistant to antibiotics and full of tensions show all the time. What to do: Buy organic, especially for young people, developmentChildren. Organic farmers are much better on the earth and its creatures in many other ways ....
10) international community. While the environment is clearly in trouble in the United States, is very much worse in many other parts of the world. Few countries in the developing pollution controls have to speak, and so the air, water and soil are often polluted terrible. The children here are the most vulnerable in these polluted environments. What to do: in general, make your life easier;Buy only what you really need, well think about what you can and the bodies of your family. Donate the money from the simplification of environmental organizations, to provide a global level.
This is not a complete list of environmental problems, but it's a start. Just make these changes, significant effort, so do not expect me to do at night. Implementation of new environmental measures gradually, but steadily. Do not beat yourself when you have forgotten yourCloth bags to do but to return it. And influence people around you, what you're doing and why we are talking about. Protecting our children through the conservation of our natural resources is a value that must be raised in the American consciousness must.
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