Critical resources

ROLE OF CITIZENS

  • The more people there are, the more we have to be careful about our natural resources. Critical resources for us to take care include:
    • Our animals – all of them, on our ranches and farms, in our homes, in our forests and in our deserts, because they are not only precious to us, but also a source of economic worth, they need the same things we do to survive and stay healthy.
    • Our lands – where healthy grasslands, woodlands, deserts and scrublands are the homes, food sources and breeding habitats for our animals.
    • Our waters – where we must understand that only 0.3 % of all the water on the planet is fresh water available for drinking, swimming, fishing and sustaining life, and realize that what freshwater is here today must quench out thirst and the thirst of every living thing on Earth forever, and
    • Our air – recognizing that every time we run a car or a boat, or flip a switch for electricity, or burn a field or heat our homes with wood or gas or electricity, we are using energy, and either directly or indirectly putting chemicals into the air. Mother Earth / Nature must work hard at cleansing the air we create, so that we and all plants and animals will have clean air to survive, it too is finite.
  • Our natural resources are finite and each of us in our own fashion must work with our families, friends, neighbours and communities to recognize that every one of these resources is precious to us, our animals the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the environments we play and work in. But only we as living, breathing, thinking and reasoning entities have the ability to conserve and protect these precious natural resources in the best ways we can imagine.
Last modified: Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 10:23 AM