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An apparition is facing American environmentalism in the form of a paradox. Ability and sophistication are characteristics of our environmental organizations while the environment continues to go downhill. The prospects of our planet being ruined are almost becoming a reality. With the new inventions of man that happens with every rising of the sun the ecosystem is faced with more calamities. Corporations put financial freedom ahead of environmental conservation. We have invested so much in the present that we have disregarded the future. With these and many more, we have become a failed generation.
There would be no urgency in requiring and needing an appraisal if the conditions of our environment were not very dire. The escalating menace points towards emerging environmental tragedies of bizarre proportions. For example, deforestation rate in the tropical regions is at an acre per second. More than half of the temperate forests have been depleted and the tropical forests follow closely with the same rate. Marine fisheries have been fished to capacity while the nearly all the predator fish are nowhere to be seen (Tietenberg, and Lewis 5). The corals have been threatened while some species have been driven to extinction.
The activities of man led to the destruction of the stratosphere, a part of the ozone layer. The saddest part of this is that we did not realize we were destroying the layer until we began facing the consequences of its loss.

Climate disruptions have been a characteristic of planetary warnings and the carbon dioxide levels have gone up over the past years. The ice fields in the Arctic and Antarctic circles are melting at a very high rate. The processes in our industries have led to an increase in the levels of carbon dioxide. The processes also fix nitrogen leading to dead zones due to fertilization (Tietenberg, and Lewis 7).
There are individuals who have chosen to rise above the rest and conserve the environment. I have joined the fight in conserving the environment in a bid to be differentiated from the lost generation. From the first to the last class, my view of the environment has changed. I now look at the environment as a live entity that needs to be conserved and protected. I have learnt the importance of the environment and that our lives would mean nothing without the ecosystem. Every single organism is vital for the sustenance of the ecosystem.
I have uncovered that there is little I have doing to save the environment. I have learnt that we can change the plight of the environment in our small ways. For example, we can only use the washer and dryer when we have a full load and reduce the time we spend in the shower for a minute. I have expanded my normative horizons by using recyclable bags for shopping. Unplugging unused appliances has helped save electricity while watering the lawn in the morning goes a long way in saving water.
I have also learnt that I can plant trees in my home to serve as a shed. Necessity is the mother of invention is a phrase that can be used in conserving the environment. The phrase can be used in our actions to save the environment. We should come up with methods and mechanisms to conserve the environment. This can be done by establishing ways in which the environment is polluted.

Works Cited
Tietenberg, Thomas H, and Lynne Lewis. Environmental & Natural Resource Economics. 10th ed., Routledge, 2016.