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Conservation

No other aspect of Environmental Issues is perhaps as urgent and crucial as conservation. It means conservation of the natural resources the earth provides for our needs. This is our water, our air, minerals, metals, biomaterials, and the animals with which we co-exist.

Until the period known as the Industrial Revolution, we basically consumed only what we needed to survive, and were more of less in harmony with nature. The consumer society has changed all that. We now use and consume massive amounts of electricity produced by mostly wasteful and dangerous methods; we invent, produce and buy all manners of products that are superfluous to our existence, but now designed for our comfort.

The result is the wastage of our natural resources on economies of scale. Without measures the earth will cease to provide these necessities. The measures are known as conservation. They are well known, but need universal acceptance and agreement for their implementation.

This will bring about renewable energy sources; meaningful recycling of materials used in manufacturing and construction, clean air and water, and a return to man's harmonious existence with his environment.