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Earth Day was first established on April 22nd in 1970 and has steadily been growing in acceptance with the citizen of the world. It marked a start of a modern environmental movement and has today become one of the most recognized symbols of the need for global environmental conservation.
Earth Day was first established on April 22nd in 1970 and has steadily been growing in acceptance with the citizen of the world. It marked a start of a modern environmental movement and has today become one of the most recognized symbols of the need for global environmental conservation. The main theme of the day is to remind citizens of the earth for the need for conservation. It provided a platform for environmentalists to call on nations, global policy makers and even private citizens for the need to conserve our precious environment. One important step in the conservation movement is to use renewable energy and to use all natural products where possible. Just by following these two steps we are certainly able to make significant progress in our environmental conservation goals. A large of this has focused on proper manufacturing and use of fertilizers. Over the years since the introduction of synthetic fertilizers, their true costs are slowly being felt by long term users of these damaging products. The huge initial crop yields are not long lasting. Over time yields fade and soil fertility drops dramatically as soil is damaged and even sometimes killed due to the chemical leaching and burning they do. As a result soil is subjected to the risk of desertification and soon nothing can crow on the land resulting ultimately and farmer bankruptcy and destroyed land. In addition to destroying soils and perfectly good farmland, they also provide a devastating affect to local water systems. The run-off from these highly soluble fertilizers almost always reaches bodies of water which simply cant cope with the additional nutrients. The access nitrification causes uncontrollable growth of weeds and algae which can suffocate the river system and eventually death of a river ecosystem. The best alternative is to focus on the use of natural and organic fertilizers. As the products used to manufacture natural organic fertilizers are natural and clean, there is almost no risk of upsetting the local eco-system with their use. The earth really has no place for synthetic chemical fertilizers and its devastating side-affects. Organic fertilizers use natural raw products such as fish, seaweed or even common waste to make fertilizers. Whatever is taken from the earth in terms of raw input is returned directly to the earth as the final product. There is very little waste and no imbalances in the natural ecology that occur when these fertilizers are applied. Plants and soils will greatly benefit from these fertilizers as they nourish the soil and provide vital nutrients that synthetic fertilizers have no hope in providing. The next step in the message of Earth Day is to get private citizens more involved in the conservation movement. Over the last 40 years, great strides have been achieved with governments and multinational corporations in adopting green practices. Now the focus is on local private citizens and how then can further the cause for global preservation and conservation. The first thing people can do is to adopt the use of natural organic fertilizer. Lawn fertilizers are normally chemical and with thousands of homes using them they are almost as devastating to the environment as widespread use in the early post-war era on farmland. What damage was done in the past can only be learned from and repaired as best we can. We instead need to look forward and change our over-consumptive ways to improve our environment. Let our children enjoy with 100th year anniversary of Earth Day by saying that their parents were successful. |
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