Are we having a dramatic impact on our world?

How?

It is surely clear that we are having a great impact on our environment, since pollution is an important factor in today’s society. While Zürich is a fairly clean city, where the inhabitants and the government work together to keep it that way, you cannot walk past train stations, benches, or even the Zuerich lake without seeing the our leftovers. Empty bottles, bags and cigarettes are lying everywhere: Waste material which is harming our environment. It is even worse in America, especially larger cities like New York and Chicago.

But we are not only polluting the ground we are walking on. Air pollution is the cause of most childhood cancers (a British study suggests). Additionally most of us are not aware that we are also harming our environment by water pollution, soil contamination, and radioactive contamination. Today environmentalist organizations cry for help. A Global “Live Earth” concert was held 2007 to raise money for our environment and politicians all over the world are spreading the fear of Global Climate Destabilization also known as “Global Warming”. Today the Royal Society, United Nations, NAS and AAS are trying to figure out what to do against it.

We can only blame ourselves for pollution. A study claimed that 750 out of 1000 people in the USA drive cars. In today’s society you do not use public support but get driven to school. You do not jog to the supermarket but use your car. Instead of camping in the nature for a week you fly to your holiday vacation.


Surely we ourselves therefore to blame for the change occurring in our world!