IRENEO V.

BATAGA - PHD STUDENT DATE: March 10, 2023

ANSWER FOR REVIEW QUESTIONS IN MODULE 2-GREEN EDUCATION
SUBMITTED TO: DR. MONA LIZA H. SOLLANO
PROFESSOR
QUESTION 1
Indira Gandhi of India once said “ One cannot be truly human and civilized
unless one looks upon not only all fellowmen but all creations with the eyes
of a friend”.
In her speech, Indira Gandhi addressed the important role that One’s culture and
behavior has played in attentiveness to the environment. The man should be aware of
his doing to himself and to his environment. The human can be civilized if he has the
ability to interact to his environment by bringing change, and good platforms that give
benefits, opportunity, and influence to others. Man and environment has mutual
relationship so, the environment and nature potentially sustain man’s life and man in
return should be a good steward and take care his environment by maintaining its
balance mechanism like conservation and preservation of earth’s resources towards
sustainable development. Truly and civilized man can be achieved if man should
protect, respect, and preserve his nature or environment not only for himself but for
future generations.
QIESTION 2
Trace the interrelationship among the components in the environment. What
do you think are the responsibilities of humans as steward of Mother Earth?
Environmental stewardship conserves natural resources, combats pollution, and
protects biodiversity, but most importantly, it means we protect and sustain our
environment for future generations. Our responsibility is to personally evolve and adapt
our lifestyles to put less stress on the planet and its resources as well as not contribute
to processes that are destructive to other life and other human beings. The meat
production juggernaut consumes much grain and water that could be used more
efficiently in feeding people and in direct agriculture without becoming massive nitrate
laden urine plumes oozing down into the water table under stockyards like inverse
atomic mushroom clouds. We need to research the manufacturing chains that give us
our consumer products and not assume that something like a shiny smooth laptop is an
environmentally harmless thing, an icon and paragon of “green living.” This is just one
among a myriad abuses of our global life support systems. We must be aware that
stringent pollution control regulations have not actually reduced pollution, only
displaced it to the more poor regions of the planet whose populace bears the same ill
effects that plagued the industrialized world just a century ago. The only way that can
change is through ameliorating our buying habits and how we manage our wastes as
well as not reward systems that rely on slave and child labor. The practice of planned
obsolescence and consumption beyond one’s reasonable needs absolutely has to end if
our civilization is to continue. The mentality of so many things (including people) being
disposable has to end. Perhaps the single most effective change would be in getting
significant numbers of people to take up vegetarianism. It is not necessary to revert to
a primitive lifestyle to accomplish this, only pare back all these excesses. We need to
learn to love, protect, revere and coexist with Mother Nature.