Of Environment

Of Environment

Sir Francis Bacon took his own personal initiative to gather a literary collection of his own opinions in the form of personal essays. A personal essay is a brief work of nonfiction that offers an opinion on a subject. His first book, a collection of different essays, offered opinions on the nature of human behavior and motivation, generalized about what humans do and ought to do. The sole purpose of his writings were to give advice to young adults who were not only destined but motivated to succeed. His writing influenced many people and led to his title as the father of the English essay. Bacon's works have also influenced the creation of this writing which examines human nature to pollute and ultimately destroy the very environment with which they live(Applebee 442).

As a race, humans are entirely dependent on the planet and ecosystem, and as a population, people are abusing this harbor of life, called earth. Every human being must realize that every breath inhaled, every sip of water, and every meal consumed spawns directly from the environment one lives in. It should be a concern to any person, that every day the earth is being deteriorated by the very organism that depends upon it. It is this lack of environmental concern exhibited both nationally and individually that is having detrimental effects on the planet and ecosystem that the human race quintessentially depends on.

Nationally, government is an opportunist. Hurricane Rita damaged Gulf oil drilling

resources, and with the realization of gas as a rare commodity, and a national demand of nearly twenty million barrels per day, came a congressional demeanor of panic(Gibson). This was used by higher governmental forces to rush the passing of bills allowing for drilling in Alaska, and increasingly lax pollution restrictions. It is concerning that nationally, the U.S. is willing to destroy environmental havens for an inevitably tiring resource. Concerning pollution, the lessened restrictions were enabled to hasten the reconstruction and repair of New Orleans and gulf coast cities. The government needs to recognize, however, that toxic levels of smog and usually illegal amounts of waste deposits will unavoidably