Environmental Ethics

                This is a picture of a light bulb. The bulb is filled with a peaceful landscape and behind the bulb is a row of wind turbines. This picture can be interpreted in many ways, but the main way that I see it is that people have a responsibility to safely power the earth. All of the crazy things that people do to power their homes and life are destroying the environment. This should not be the outcome of attaining energy, but far from it.

                Environmental ethics is caring for the environment in the same way that we care for other people or animals. People need to treat the environment with respect because it is the only one that we have. If we destroy everything on this earth that is green, there will be no way of restoring the planet to what it once was. One of the best ways that people can treat the planet respectfully is to use more environmentally friendly energy alternatives. We cannot rely on fossil fuels forever; we need to get people to start using better, sustainable alternatives. As the picture shows, using sustainable wind energy can power a light bulb while keeping the earth in pristine, beautiful condition.

                As a people, we have a responsibility to keep the earth clean and livable for future generations of people. We should not be consuming all of the natural resources that we do at such an alarming rate, because there are not enough to support that lifestyle. There are environmental ethics that we have to abide by if we want the earth to survive long enough for another thousand of generations to come. This all starts with figuring out ways to create energy more sustainably and recycling many of the items that we use to reduce the amount of garbage on the planet.