Environmentally friendly, better start doing now

As matter of fact, we are still polluting our homeland, the earth. Air quality gets lower and lower. Fresh water is never clean enough for us to drink without purifying. We can never see little stars twinkling in the sky, but neon lights that make the night bright. Without being aware, we are destroying our environment that we live in. If we do not take actions now, we are going to pay soon. Thus, we’d better start doing now. Being environmentally friendly, then we can survive on this planet.
Many people still do not know what this phrase means. Actually there is no international standard for this concept till now. Usually, environmentally friendly, eco-friendly, and nature friendly are synonyms used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.
Some people claim that we do not need to be environmentally friendly sedulously since we have been living on this planet for hundreds of thousands of years.
Nonetheless, the problem that we meet now is much more serious than any time in history. Research done by scientists around the world all showed the same conclusion: resources that we used up during the last 50 years are much greater than resources that we used up in 500 hundred years in the past. We are emptying our own treasure house. It also showed that there will be no petroleum on earth in 50 years. If we continue destroying our environment, we will become extinct finally.
Fortunately, many have recognized the seriousness of the situation, and a lot of them actually did take actions to prevent our motherland from being polluted.
For instance, Energy Star, a program with a primary goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, has different sections for different nations or areas, including the United States, the European Union and Australia.
Moreover, we are looking for new forms of energy which is clean and safe, such solar power or hydrogen energy.
Some may ask, “how can we join them? It seems too far away.”
As a normal citizen, we can do more than we thought. There are many international, governmental and private organizations that work on this area, such as Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). What we could do is participating activities held by those organizations, and we can learn how to be environmental friendly from them.
It is not the end, but the beginning. To make our planet a better place to live, we have a long distance to walk. However, as long as we hold our hands together and never give up, we have the confidence that we will succeed sooner or later.