What Has Happened To This Waterfront?
Nowadays, people are lack of environmental consciousness that results a behavior that goes with “whenever you leave, trash remains behind”. What will happen if we constantly leaving our trashes behind? The answer is pollution. What will happen if an area is polluted? Perhaps things will just got worse and worse. Here is a true story that happened to a waterfront in Netherlands.
There was a guy named Tommy Kleyn in Netherlands and he has
showed us how a kindness act can make a better environment. He was annoyed by
the act of people throwing trashes in the river. Day by day, the river got
darker and dirtier. The garbage and the trashes piled up at the waterfront and
left the beautiful river a bad impression. Tommy decided to clean up the
garbage and the trashes himself and he got up thirty minutes earlier every day
to clean the waterfront before he went to work. About a month later, he had cleaned
up this heavily polluted waterfront and the scenery of the waterfront was clean
and green. The waterfront was no longer polluted. To his surprise, an Eurasian
coot started nesting in the part which he clean!
(The litter part part of the waterfront)
The result of people throwing garbage in
the river may have many impacts on the environment. First, the fishes and the animals
that lived near by the riverbanks may eat up the plastic bottles or plastic
bags for food and the toxic may remain in their bodies that could not be
digested. Second, the water quality of the river will get worse and fishes may
be sick and than die. They may even give birth to deformed baby animals. The
river will stink and maybe no one would get near the river anymore. Third, the
lack of environmental consciousness and the act of throwing garbage will become
a habit and some people may imitate this act and throw garbage in the river.
From this story, we have witnessed the
impact that the human can make on the environment, what we can do is to do from
ourselves right now to make a better environment. We can reduce plastic
consumption, not leaving garbage behind, have environmental consciousness to
make our lives much better and greener; Moreover, even a small act of kindness can
make a big difference.
