Environment – Principles

 

 Environment 

Principles

We all live in the natural environment and as we live and breath and find our food in the natural environment; yet at time it is treated very badly, which seems to be strange as we damage the natural environment we polute or food and oxygen sources that are essential for our own personal health and life experience. By careful evaluation of the world around us we can see that the environment is balanced and also very natural corrective processes of some harsh events that are caused to our natural world. For example massive and destructive bushfires will see new growth established sometime after the fire event is over; as well we can find the reeds in our waterways can clean and extract some toxins from the water. Many of our shellfish are natural ocean cleaners of pollutants – yet this should not mean that we treat the environment unnecessarily harshly as all things do have a breaking point and let’s choose not to discover the point beyond recovery for our environment – for this is where we live and breathe for our very own existence.

The environment is important to the future of humanity as we know it and therefore we must do all we can to carefully look after it and to care for it. The elements and other minerals found on the planet need to be carefully used bearing in mind that there will be people following after us and we need to leave material for them as well as to leave the planet in as good a condition as possible. Good stewardship is when we do not consume ever thing we can but to consume only that which we must so that there is some left for others.

The basic principles are:

  • longetivity, repairablity, recycablity of all things we produce and in the process of winning raw materials for manufacturing to do as  little harm to the environment as possible; as well during the manufacturing process polute as little as possible and create as little waste as possible, of which none should be toxic.
  • Pollute little, consume little, use only what is necessary, recycle all we can, reuse all we can, replenish as much as we can.
  • As such the excessive coal mining needs to be brought under control, responsible mining will mean leaving some for the future, if and when needed.
  • The coal seam gas exploration has dangers of contamination of groundwater must stop until a safe extraction method is found.
  • Farming lands must be protected from destructive mining and farming practices.
  • The oceans must not be polluted unnecessarily nor overly fished out.
  • Our forests are important and need to be replenished as some timbers are being used new ones must be growing.
  • The use of petro-chemical plastics must be restricted as they are not recyclable but are damaging, a move towards plant fiber based plastics should be encouraged as they are biodegradable..
  • The use of damaging toxic chemicals as with the firefighting foams must cease and clean-ups must begin and where necessary compensation to affected people must commence in the immediate future.