Environmental Justice- Au Team 1

        Humanity is slowly bleeding the Earth dry. We abuse the resources of the Earth and take it from it without giving back. For example people think that one cut down tree is nothing, they don’t understand that in that tree lives hundreds of organisms and that the tree is a basis for life.

        Due to the dangerous nature of mankind's actions we are affecting various ecological principles which are key to ecosystems. One major one is flow of energy. We disrupt the flow of energy in ecosystems when we harm the communities environment. For example the fish in the BP oil Spill. We also affect the networks which coexist in the biosphere. When we cut down tree’s we are destroying the habitats of organisms who live in the tree and likewise those that survived on the energy of those organisms. It disrupts the entire system. By affecting these two principles we are also ruining the dynamic balance of these ecosystems. When the tree’s are chopped down eventually the numbers of all populations there die down in response to the loss of tree’s. 

        Humanity needs to change, we are making the biosphere uninhabitable. If we want to survive then we need to change how we treat this Earth. This is the only planet we have. We need to make it last as long as possible because there is only one Earth. Ecoliteracy is defined as being able to understand the principles that govern the organization of ecological communities.  This is a topic that must be addressed in general, and is being closely looked at in our classroom because having a grasp on Ecoliteracy will help all of us respect and understand the environments we live in. 

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