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Living Green We don't live in isolation. Everything we do affects the world around us. Breathing consumes oxygen and releases carbon dioxide. We consume food and release heat and waste. But, having an impact isn't necessarily bad.On a simplified scale, our heat and wastes are necessary for other organisms. Their heat and wastes, in turn, combine with our own and are ultimately absorbed by plants, which then become our food or industrial raw materials. That's the way it should be. The world we inhabit is a beautifully balanced system of profound and complex interactions among all its organisms. The impact each organism has is necessary for this planetary system to work. Unfortunately, humankind has developed lifestyles and industrial processes that disrupt this self-sustaining balance. Our objective must be to minimize our disruptive lifestyles and industrial processes that threaten the sustainability of nature's cycles. Each individual can make a difference in helping to restore and maintain a balanced world. The choices we make everyday regarding the food we eat, how much water and energy we consume, the types of cleaning products we use, the kind of car (and how often) we drive, all can have a positive or negative impact on the earth. And perhaps the most important lesson we can learn is that "as goes the earth's health, so goes ours." Efforts to clean up our air and water, preserve our non-renewable resources, and stop endangering plant and animal species, will ultimately lead to happier, healthier humankind living in partnership with the earth.
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