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The Gift That is Our Earth

By Katarina Guarrera

The earth is a gift we’re given to care for. We care for electronics, money and possessions. We should at least care for the earth a bit more! In my opinion, people should stop hurting the environment. It destroys animals' homes, it causes pollution and it causes global warming. Clearly, it ruins animals' habitats. 1.9m square kilometers of land that belonged to animals have been lost since 2000. That's about eight times the size of the United Kingdom! When an animal loses the natural home or habitat that it needs to survive, its numbers decline rapidly. also If we don't help the animals now and they become extinct, the world will lose all its beauty and happiness! As you can see, it wrecks creatures' shelters.

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Without a doubt, it causes the air to be contaminated. “Industrial pollution and the discarding of plastic waste must be tackled for the sake of all life in the ocean,” said David Attenborough, a broadcaster and natural historian. To illustrate, pollution causes more than 9 million premature deaths every year. Research also shows that pollution can make us feel sad and depressed. This illustrates that it makes the atmosphere polluted.

I am certain that hurting the environment causes the world to overheat. “The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs.” said Rebecca Solnit. And according to NOAA's 2021 Annual Climate Report the combined land and ocean temperature has increased at an average rate of 0.14 degrees Fahrenheit ( 0.08 degrees Celsius) per decade since 1880. In addition, our oceans are dying. Half of the world's coral reefs have died in the last 30 years. This proves, it causes the planet to get hot.

As can be seen, everyone should quit harming the earth. It hurts animals' homes, it causes the air to be polluted and it causes earth to warm up. I realized that after studying for a long time hurting the environment hurts the earth. You should stop hurting the world.

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