How Ordinary People Can Help the Environment

Air pollution, water pollution, loggings, mining, burning forests, waste/rubbish disposal, global-warming, endangered species, are some of the problems that our environment is facing now. As an ordinary people, we can also help our environment. We need our self-awareness to help the environment. We've got to realize how important our environment for our lives is and care to our environment. These are some ways for us to help our environment; they are easy to be done. And I know for sure that these things will help our environment a lot!

• Throw rubbish to the rubbish bin. Don't throw the rubbish on the road or to the water bodies (e.g. rivers). It may causes pollutions on the road and in the rivers. As all of us have known, water pollution can cause flood, landslides, etc. And I know for sure that you do not want these things happened to our environment, do you? :)
  
• Do not do the illegal loggings and burn the forest for your own interests. Maybe it could give you profits, but by doing the illegal logging and burn the forest, it also means death to the world. When the illegal loggers cut trees or when people burned forests, it means there would be less trees in the world. The world would die without trees, just like a person would die without lungs. Burning forests and illegal loggings also could narrow the forest as a habitat of the animals in the forest. It could kill the animals and make them extinct, also cause an imbalance in the forest ecosystem. You want your next generation to be able to see those unique forest-animals, don't you? So, stop doing illegal loggings and burning the forest!
  
• Plant trees! More trees, means more oxygen and lives to the world. :)
  
• Use the public transportations. By using the public transportation, there would be less air-pollution. Ten people in a public transportation could produce less pollution than ten people in ten cars. And if the distance is not too far, you could just use a bicycle or just walk. There would be no pollution produced by walking or riding the bicycle. It also could help to make the earth cooler because there would not too much greenhouse gasses (air pollution) that trap the sunlight in the atmosphere and make the earth warmer.
  
• Save energies! Use electricity only when you need it. Save it for our next generations. With saving energies, there would be less pollution from making the electricity.
  
• Do not be afraid to tell the police or government if you know that someone is doing the wrong thing that can destroy our environment (e.g. catching the endangered species, illegal loggings, mining).
  
• If now you're a student, study! If you get some powers when you've grown up, you could help the world more.  And you could make a great change with a great chance to make this world better! (:
  

So, what are you waiting for? Let's help the world!

By. Yulina Citra Lativolia