Living green is a way of protecting the environment. It is not that difficult to do. Together we can make the world a better place to live and stop being selfish in the way we are treating our planet.

You can start out with little steps such as picking up trash that is in your path. You don’t have to use certain toxic chemicals that are in common cleaners, pesticides, and herbicides. Research ingredients in your food. Avoid foods that have palm and hydrogenated oils. Use less sodium. Chemical food additives are not only bad for the environment, they are bad for your health.

Greenhouse gases continue to deplete the ozone layer of the atmosphere. Deforestation gets rid of trees needed for producing oxygen. Factory smokestacks are billowing out clouds of hazardous fumes. The temperature is rising thus causing global warming. If this continues, the earth will purge hard and create natural disasters such as enormous floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic activity.

Living Green Is Something Everyone Can Do

Start today and do your part. For instance, quit buying bottled water and throwing the plastic receptacle away. Set your thermostat to a warmer setting on warm days and colder settings during the winter, especially at night. Don’t flip your cigarette butts onto the ground. Learn to eat healthy and use organic foods and ingredients. Try to stop smoking and learn to drink in moderation.

Use holistic medicine if you can and try to avoid doctors, who like to prescribe a lot of medications that normally only mask the symptoms. Research foods, read labels, and try to avoid non-complex carbohydrates. Exercise by at least walking when you get a chance. Learn to meditate, contemplate, and/or pray. Get rid of vices such as anger, frustration, sloth, or greed.

Learn to love and connect with those you care about. Start loving everyplace, everyone and everything including your enemies. Karma has a way of paying you back for any good you do.

Living green can start with you.

Basic needs are generally the same for everyone. Food, water, and shelter to name the top three. If a human goes without food or water, he or she will die within a small number of days.

Yet, when we splurge on cake and ice cream, we don’t realize that some people don’t have anything to eat at all. We should always be thankful and do a blessing on what we are given.

Water is another thing we don’t think about. We see so many examples of water pollution from people throwing trash into our waterways, dumping garbage on the side of the road, which could eventually reach the water table underground.

Basic Needs Are Things Like Food, Water, Shelter, and Several More

What a waste it is to use bottled water and then throw the container away. There are tons of plastic bottles and receptacles thrown into landfills. They are not biodegradable and take many years to deteriorate.

There is also a need to be cared about. It is a basic need of knowing someone does love and care about us. We take it for granted, which in turn brings about many suicides due to loneliness.

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There is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which is in the form of a pyramid. The base or bottom of the pyramid is physiological needs. The air we breathe is important because if it is lacking oxygen, we can suffocate and die. Carbon dioxide emissions are the biggest threats.

A need for sleep is vital for our survival. We don’t always get the best sleep, which usually destroys work performance the following day. Clothing is a basic need. I am not talking about extravagant clothing used in fashion, but basic covering.

Sexual instinct, even though we may not think about it much, is a basic physiological need. It is something that must be led by intellect instead of by animal instinct. It calls for moderation and control, but it must be part of our life.

Then from the bottom up, we have needs of safety, social needs, esteem, self-actualization, and finally at the top, self-transcendence.

The only true basic needs are the physiological ones, which are air, food, water, shelter, clothing, sleep, and sexual instinct.

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