Talking about the environment has become pretty second place these days. And a taste of what the future holds is becoming ever clearer with every passing day. Governments are beginning to prepare for what a damaged environment future might hold by drafting emission reduction schemes and the business sector is beginning to off load its environmental footprint; but what are you doing?

With the entire recent finger pointing very few have actually realized the significance of the average household’s impact on the environment. Very few have actually stopped talking and started doing. So I want consider this question; if the environment where able to formulate an opinion on you, what would it think? How extensive is your impact on the environment?

Note that this is no longer just about rubbish; this is pollution 2.0 where everything that has an impact on the environment (which is EVERYTHING) needs to be taken into account (rubbish, recycling, emission, deforestation and water pollution to name a few). A drastic new view of how our existence is impacting on the environment needs to be taken on board. We all need to say that we are the ones killing the environment- then we need to do something about it.

An average Australian household emits 14 tons of greenhouse gasses each year as a direct result of careless energy consumption- lights left on, computers on stand-by and heating/cooling all contribute to this. Each year millions of tons are of landfill rubbish are produced by ever country. This accounts for billions of tons worldwide which are dumped without being recycled. This further ties in with the production of greenhouse gases which are emitted during production. This is something that is so simple to stop through recycling but continues to be an unnecessary contributor to Global Warming.

So how do you start? What can you do? Now I could tell you but I think that’s part of the problem, people don’t think what they can do they just listen. And since people just listen they often get lazy. Its far more beneficial if you leave this post considering what you could do to help the environment…change the auto suspend timer on your computer to twenty minutes or turn the light of next time you’re not using it. Or maybe you could visit http://www.environment.gov.au/ and http://www.earthour.com/