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Three Actions for sustainable future

As everybody already knows, human have used a plenty of resources the earth provides us all the time. However, the more people are the more overconsumption occurs. This leads to depletion of the resources on the earth eventually. Therefore, we should have proper actions and exactly know how to use this limited resources wisely, while reducing damage to the earth. To do so, I suggest three specific solutions to ensure a sustainable future.

Reducing water is the most essential and basic part of our lives. Clothes we wear, foods we eat, places we live, all these can’t be made without water. However, because of constant use of it, it has been getting scarce. Therefore, in order to save this valuable resource, we try to find a way and it is to refine the water used. In case of South Korea, the government already has enforced the policy, “아리수”, since 2004. The process of the system is that, after extracted from Hangang River, water used is transferred into a refinery and then, with the system of water quality improvement, transformed into it available to use and supplied to the houses back.

In another effort to ensuring a sustainable future, we should try to be vegetarian. According the recent news, it says that modern people are getting overweight. This means excessive consumption of red meat and, due to that, it causes indiscriminate livestock of cows and increasing sickness such as obesity and adult disease. Even when we eat 1kilogram of beef, it needs 16,000 liters of water. However, instead of choosing meat, being vegetarian can be conducive to both us and environment reducing not only livestock of cows but emissions from the cows and use of water and being healthy to everything.

Decreasing overconsumption is also important because it is not too much to say that it causes many of these problems. With the economic growth, now people are in more stable and confortable lives than before. However, the increased wealth has spurred the people’s continuous demand for affluent lives. If we don’t reduce this consumption, it keeps going on making resources empty and scarce. Therefore, people have to do reasonable consumption to guarantee a sustainable future.

Until now, we constantly have demanded resources we need from the planet but at this moment, it is time to make return for a sustainable future. Sometimes, many people are not conscious about serious problems and even some are indifferent. However, we should be awakened. Maybe it is impossible to go back to the times but possible to prevent future from being worse by trying to restore it with these solutions that have a great impact on ensuring our sustainable future.