how to safe gaurd the environment?
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There was a time when environment was treated as a bottomless phenomenon. The quantity of consumers was simply trifling before the sheer magnitude of natural resources to be consumed. Management of natural resources such as forests or minerals was done by locals who made use of them. There was no profit motive behind exploiting environmental resources. There were no market forces driving the engines of mass production. Environment was local. It was managed by locals based on local indigenous knowledge. Time as well as modern science has proved that traditional local management of environment and natural resources is the best. Whether it be Indians of Brazil or Africans or Asians, they are the best caretakers of their resources because their knowledge of their environment is time tested. Market forces, profit motive, mass production and modern technology have damaged our natural environment to an alarming extent. Since our attention has been drawn to this damage, we must use modern techniques, modern communication and capital to preserve and improve our natural environment. \n\n\nIndia is equipped with a solid brigade of legal provisions and policy documents designed to protect and improve the natural environment. Article 48(a) directs the State to take strong measures not only for its protection but also work actively for its improvement. Article 51(a) incurs a corresponding duty on the citizen to do the same. We have an Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act and a similar Water Act. We have an Environmental Protection Act of 1986 amended from time to time to control hazardous pollutants. Each one of our nine five year plans contains a chapter on safeguarding the environment. We have Forest Acts stretching from 1861 to 1988. We have State and Central boards for the prevention of pollution. Our Judiciary has been exceptionally active in allowing public interest litigations that have resulted in the State being directed to take measures for its improvement or to refrain from taking measures that would degenerate our ecology. However, the core issues effecting or rather controlling India’s natural environment have remained the same. \nWho should control India’s forest wealth? Should the traditional local tribal manage forest resources with his age-old knowledge reducing the government to a mere assistant? On the other hand, should forests be managed by the Central government? Before the British came to India, forests were the property of locals who survived on them as well as took loving care of them. As British gained control of India, they simply threw the tribal out of this management. Their concern was entirely different. They gave contracts for felling forests and such felling was immense all across Indian sub-continent. They wanted to increase revenue by selling timber and converting forestland into agricultural land. Timber was required for the expansion of railways, construction of bridges and buildings. Right from the forest Act of 1861 till 1927, the British dissociated the local traditional dweller from its management. All these Acts contain a provision of arrest without warrant for anyone who encroached upon forestland without permission from the British officer. Whether it be a cattle grazer or a woman collecting dry wood for fuel. The same practice has continued after independence. Forest wealth has been centralized and the local dweller is as angry with the administration as ever. Since he gets no incentive by protecting his forest, he does not bother about it anymore. Until this issue of local versus government control is resolved, forest resources will continue to be exploited and mismanaged in India. \nWeakness of laws and administrative rules is the second main problem. Laws are not weak by chance. They are left weak deliberately. For example, the boards entrusted with preventing water and air pollution have proved ineffective. Not by chance but because they have not been empowered sufficiently. They
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anything that is dangerous to the enviroment and humans and animals. For example nuclear waste is highly dangerous and is handled by people who wear protective clothing and is put into big containers and stored hundreds of meters below ground in concrete. Also it is dumped deap in the oceans
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Well enviromentalist pretty much keep anyone from doing that in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR) .. I've heard there is probably as much oil in ANWAR as there is in the Middle East .. so go figure.
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i. Channel rainwater from your roof and maximise the storage of rainwater.\n2. Re-use grey-water (from showers, washing clothes) through a natural plant filter for use in irrrigation, washing, flushing toilets. \n3. Check your water system for any leaks\n4. Use a dry toilet (natural composting system)\n4. For more ideas, check out any Permaculture websites
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To get an idea of what it is like, close all of your windows and doors, empty your house of evrything, only drink dirty water and put a pillow case over your head. Now live like that for about a wk. and you get the idea.  Oh yea, the only food you get is molded.\n\nI'm not an eco-freek but do unerstand trees and life are good.
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U Replace shower heads and faucet aerators with water efficient models.\nU Use a water-filled milk jug or plastic bottle in your toilet tank to displace water; this allows your toilet\nto operate using less water.\nU Choose nonphosphate or low phosphate detergents. High phosphate levels in lakes and streams\ncan kill fish and other wildlife.\nU Use a broom instead of water to clean your driveway or garage . Do not sweep debris into the\nstreet or storm sewer.\nU Put a spray nozzle on the end of your hose for car washing and plant watering to prevent the hose\nfrom continually releasing water and to control the amount of water used.\nU Use native plants in your garden that require less water.\nU Use cat litter or sand instead of salt on icy walks. Salt pollutes water and kills plants.\n\nU Do not let the water run while brushing your teeth or washing your face (you can save up to 5\ngallons).\nU Do not leave the water running if you wash dishes by hand.\nU Rinse all your dishes at once by using a dishrack placed in the sink.\nU Only run your dishwasher and washing machine when they are full.\n\nU Do not open fire hydrants on hot summer days because water needed to fight a fire will not be\navailable in an emergency. Also, opening fire hydrants is illegal.\nU Do not throw in the trash, pour down the drain, or dump on the ground paint, antifreeze, motor oil,\nand other household hazardous wastes, because they can migrate to your water source.\nU Dispose of tissues, dead insects, and other waste in a trash can rather than a toilet.\nU Plant native plants instead of traditional lawn grass to avoid the use of herbicides, pesticides,\nfertilizers.\nU Do not dump used motor oil on the ground or into sewers; throwing motor oil in the trash is illegal.\nRecycling centers and many service stations accept used motor oil for recycling.\nImproving Your Housekeeping\nU Fix leaks by replacing faucet washers and toilet flappers as needed. A slow drip or leak can easily\nwaste more than 100 gallons of water a week, which leads to an unnecessarily high water bill.\nU Put all litter in trash cans so it does not get washed into the storm sewers.\nU Clean up waste products while walking your pets.\nEducating Yourself and Others\nU Educate your community about the effects of dumping waste, such as pesticides, down drains and\ninto waterways.\nU Encourage your neighbors, family, and friends to install low flow water fixtures and to practice\nwater conservation.\n\n\nMaybe you can not stop but it is easy to help decrease pollution.
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4-1.15. Safekeeping Property\n \nSee link below.
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make more ozone. jk the best way to prevent it is to not cut down as many trees, not use cfc's (clorofloracarbons), and cut down on major pollution, such as factories and cars like hummers
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So much to do. I would first start by avoiding the waste of electricity because most of the electricity generated at home comes from gas generators that burning millions of gallons of fuel.\nthe heat generated from this generators is one of the main causes of the global waming.\nadded to that the emmissions from vehicules that is also one major problem.\ntry encouraging people and yourself :) to use vehicules that don't waste a lot of gas. take the bus when you can or ride a bicycle when you have a chance.
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Be responsible for whatever you do and say. Safest way out of anything.
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Stay away from the people who are bumming you out. You have to put the most important things to do in your life first! Try to stay away from the things that stress you out. as far as the environment change it if you can. I hope this helps. keep motivated by doing things that you enjoy. if not all the time, most of the time. And if you have to many things going on your best bet is to eliminate some lesser thing you do not need to do.
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Education! People have to learn more about pollution and what effects their actions (dumping, buying goods with a lot of packaging etc.) have on the environment. Only then people can act responsibly, reduce waste and recycle and reuse as much as possible.
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reduce greenhouse gases.
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well you can put what you should recycle. how recycling will help. like it'll help air pollution,water pollution, and stuff like that. state all the bad things that will happen if you don't recycle.
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Cleanliness of the environment.
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The very best way to help the environment is for each person to do what he or she can.  Organizations are interesting, but what really makes the difference is what you actually do.  Keep it simple.  Pick up a piece of paper.  Plant a flower.  Clean a sidewalk.  Keep your part of the world better and it makes the whole state and the whole world a little bit better.  When others notice what you are doing, they in turn can follow your good example.  That is what will do it.
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everything, pay attention to every detail and consider it. dont let anything slip it could be bad