Introduction
Today, more and more people are talking about renewable energy sources and environmental conservation. Climate change is especially damaging because it makes everything else even more dangerous, and deforestation and oil extraction are threat accelerators. Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity, and deforestation and “oil dependency” only exacerbate the situation and rapidly kill people.
Discussion
20% of Amazon is already lost, along with the development of a society that increasingly consumes meat (Fueling the Fire). With global demand for beef on the rise, Brazil has also become a major exporter and is looking to increase its market share, partly by selling to the US (Fueling the Fire). Along with deforestation, the oil industry is still developing in different regions. For example, the US military is the largest consumer of oil in the world (Fueling the Fire). Such spheres cannot be changed without decisive political influence.
Leaders are known to see oil as an easy power to obtain. In addition, politicians largely set the direction of citizens’ thoughts. For example, agriculture is actively supported in Brazil, but few people think about what it costs this happens. It is important to set an example and keep people’s desire to move from destroying the planet to supporting it. Renewable energy will do to coal and oil what automobiles did to horses and carts (Fueling the Fire). That is the same development as mining and processing but with a lesser threat to the planet and humanity.
Conclusion
While there is a need to develop and grow, this should not come at the expense of environmental destruction. Therefore it is important to invest in the development of renewable energy sources. Today there are many ways to use solar energy, reuse water, and the like. Previously, I did not think about the fact that meat production brings such great harm to the environment. It is a matter of habit, and we can reduce our meat consumption, affecting the conservation of forests and our world.
Works Cited
Fueling the Fire. The Years Project, Inc., 2017.