Economy Part 5: Factory To The World

Although the majority knows of the consequences and feels that we should all protect our environment, but it is unavoidable that our environment will be affected when pursuing higher economy growth.
There is a chain connecting the environment and the economy growth. Natural resources from the environment such as coal and natural gas are needed for factories to work and produce goods for the economy to go on. Although the economy improves, the pollution increases and the natural and non-renewable resources decrease. The pollution would then affect our health and also contributes to greenhouse gases which enhances the global warming that we all are trying our best to help in the worsening situation. It is going to be an endless repetition of chain until our technology advance till when other source of energy can be used to produce products and does not contributes to the pollution.
However, we cannot sit by idly and wait for the government, the Non-Governmental organisations to come up with implementations and measures. We have to step up and do our part in protecting our environment as well. We can start by doing simple things like reusing papers, recycling papers by gathering all the newspapers that we have read finish in class and place them into the school's recycling bins. We can also limit the amount of new clothes we buy, by setting rules for ourselves that we should not buy new clothes until the old ones are unwearable. This can help reduce the huge amount of water that the factories use to produce just one shirt that we wear in our daily lives. We can also reuse the old clothes we have at home as a rag to clean the tables or to dry our feets when we step out of the toilets, or donate them to charity for the children who are unable to afford those clothes to wear.
I feel that even though it cannot be avoided that the environment would be affected by the economic growth, but we can always do our part in helping to protect it.