We hear about the need to protect nature from early childhood. Most often we only hear. Adults (not counting school teachers) rarely explain to kids why this should be done. Moreover, adult behavior most often demonstrates opposite examples.
Remember how many times you made bonfires in the country? How many branches were broken? How many flowers were plucked while resting in the forest?
We tell the baby: “Take care of nature!”, But we throw garbage into the rivers, litter the atmosphere, poison the soil with excessive amounts of fertilizer. And at the same time we hope that environmental disasters will not befall us.
Have you ever thought: why do you need to protect nature? A common answer like: “To preserve the ecology!”, Although absolutely accurate, sounds unconscious (most often). Let's try to fantasize and remember the real facts.
Imagine that you are the owner of a site and at the same time a small chemical plant. To increase profits, you dump chemical waste to your site. You also send scraps, sewage. What do you think will happen to your land in a year? And in ten years? What plants will survive on it? Will they be edible?
But with our planet we are doing just that. We forget that we need to protect nature not periodically, during the action, but every day, every second.
An example is still not forgotten when several sparrows were destroyed in China several decades ago: they ate rice crops. But instead of increasing the yield, at first they received a huge amount of pests, then - drying of forests and, as a result, shallowing of rivers. There are many such examples in the history of Russia and planet Earth.
Remember the sad fate of the Aral Sea, the ongoing forest fires. Think about how many people were poisoned with vegetables with an excess of chemicals, how many people suffocate in an atmosphere of industrial waste?
Why do you need to protect nature? In short, in order to live. To have healthy children, bring up healthy grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
But how to protect nature?
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From early childhood, you need to teach kids to take care of everything alive: do not tear wildflowers, do not break branches, do not throw garbage on asphalt, do not burn bonfires anywhere. Help imagine the child what will happen to the planet if each of its inhabitants breaks one tree? In the world, seven billion trees will be less. We just choke.
- Teach your baby not to clog ponds, to not dump them and not to leave plastic bags, bottles, other rubbish on the ground. Remember: it has been stored in the land for hundreds of years!
- Teach students to love nature. You can just go hiking and enjoy the natural beauty. And you can plant a whole park with your own hands or make a flower garden.
- Make the student think about the future. Encourage him to look for alternative fuels, harmless production methods.
- Punish business owners who dump industrial waste into rivers or soil. Fight those who pollute the atmosphere. Chase poachers.
- Give up drugs, smoking. Remember: you are also a piece of nature that needs to be protected.
