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This website tells you 10 ways to go green. One way is to pay attention to your water try drinking tap water so you aren't wasting the packaging

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We have no planet B. This composite image of Earth was captured by six orbits of the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership spacecraft on April 9, 2015, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument. NASA

The United Nations suggests that climate change is not just the defining issue of our time, but we are also at a defining moment in history. Weather patterns are changing and will threaten food production, and sea levels are rising and could cause catastrophic flooding across the globe. Countries must make drastic actions to avoid a future with irreversible damage to major ecosystems and planetary climate.

But what about individuals? What can we do to pitch in and help save Earth? There are plenty of things you can do every day to help reduce greenhouse gases and your carbon footprint to make a less harmful impact on the environment. Taking care of Earth is not just a responsibility, it's a necessity. In that spirit, HowStuffWorks has come up with 10 things you can do now to help save the planet.

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Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and we are at a defining moment of history. What can you do to make a difference? We've got 10 tips for you.

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https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-23121/9-actually-good-things-humans-did-for-the-planet-in-2015.html
Humans made sneakers out of plastic that's been in the ocean just floating there and yoga mats made out of old wetsuits that they don't use.

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This website shows people at least 70 ways to save the earth. It includes many ways and tips on what you can do to save the earth. Like preventing air pollution.

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This website shows how people are trying to help save the earth.

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These days we often see environmentalism framed as an imperative to save the world from human activity. But Mother Earth will be just fine - it's humanity's health and survival that are at stake.

This year's Earth Day had people all over the world turning out to proclaim their reverence for the Earth and their intention to protect it - from us. There is no question that human activity is harming the Earth's natural systems, threatening entire ecosystems and the extinction of many species. But we depend on those natural systems and those other species for our own survival. So we need to protect them for our own benefit as much as anything else.

Happily, no matter what we do, the Earth itself doesn't need saving. It is 4.5 billion years old, has survived asteroid strikes and much else, and will be here long after we are gone - although it will be destroyed about 7 or 8 billion years from now when the Sun balloons into a red giant.

"The present dominant global civilization is not healthy for the planet and thus not for us."

Life on Earth is almost as old as the planet; the first cells started to form about 3.8 billion years ago. As far as we know we are the only place in the universe where life exists, although if it exists elsewhere it is likely not a very common occurrence. So given its presumed rarity, we have a profound ethical responsibility to preserve life on Earth.

Like the planet, life is very resilient. There have been five 'Great Extinctions' and in the most serious of these, the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago, about 90 - 95 percent of all species were wiped out. The most recent one, triggered by an asteroid strike 65 million years ago, wiped out about 75 percent of all species, including the dinosaurs. But life itself continued.

So almost certainly life will continue after the Sixth Great Extinction - the one we are causing right now. But while life overall may survive, many of the species we love and cherish - and far more species that may not be so lovable but upon which we depend - may not survive us.

One species to which we are greatly attached - homo sapiens, us - also may not survive, an occurrence for which the rest of life on Earth might give a collective sigh of relief. But while we are not immune to extinction, I doubt if even homo sapiens needs to be saved.

We are after all 'a weedy species', as Elizabeth Kolbert called us in her 2014 book The Sixth Great Extinction, like cockroaches and rats, only more so. We can live pretty much anywhere, we breed like - well, humans - and, much more troubling, we can bend and shape our environment to our own ends.

"Protecting life on Earth, including our own species, requires a radical transformation of society."

So the chances are that humans will survive, although potentially in much smaller numbers, and perhaps driven back to a more basic way of life. Jared Diamond explored this idea some 20 years ago in his book Collapse, pointing to several examples of civilisations that have collapsed at least in part due to ecological changes.

What might need saving - if indeed it is worth saving - is our current 'civilisation' - and I use the term advisedly. A 'civilisation' that is radically altering the Earth, creating a mass extinction and undermining the basis for its own survival can hardly be called civilised! But on the other hand, the world's civilisations have created great beauty, great thinkers, great scientific advances, massive increases in life expectancy and the quality of life for many - so there are some aspects worth saving.

Which brings us to 'Planetary Health', a concept created a few years ago by Richard Horton, the editor of The Lancet, one of the world's leading medical journals. In the report of the Rockefeller Foundation- Lancet Commission on Planetary Health it was defined as "the health of human civilisation and the state of the natural systems on which it depends".

So I applaud all who come out on Earth Day to protect the Earth. But as they well know, the present dominant global civilization is not healthy for the planet and thus not for us. Protecting life on Earth, including our own species, requires a radical transformation of society, a new way of relating to the Earth, its many species and each other, a planet-wide civilizational shift. This is perhaps the ultimate point of Earth Day - to save us from ourselves.

Dr. Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria's school of public health and social policy.

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This website shows you how they tried to helped the earth by saving polar bears and showing you ways to go cleaner

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It's a tough job taking care of the planet, but somebody has to do it. As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, what have we as a species done to help protect this planet we call home? Certainly we are having a difficult time reducing our levels of carbon emissions, meeting previous goals on biodiversity, and eliminating marine, atmospheric, and terrestrial pollution. But we now have a hard-earned understanding of the costs of our inefficiencies; newly gained appreciation for the amazing diversity of life on Earth; and a more realistic handle on what we need to do to make a difference in our own lives and in the environment around us. Here's a look at what we did in 2010 to help save the world.

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How Humans Helped the Earth in 2010: Slide Show

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It's a tough job taking care of the planet, but somebody has to do it. As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, what have we as a species done to help protect this planet we call home?

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This website shows you
Human Causes of Global Change
shows you 3 reasons why the the earth is like this. One reason is major human causes, like fossil fuel, are conducted by many people  for good reasons

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Read "Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions" at NAP.edu

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Read chapter 3 Human Causes of Global Change: Global environmental change often seems to be the most carefully examined issue of our time. Yet understandi...

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This website shows us that one of the problems that people harm the earth is by cutting down forests and trees.

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This website is about how day by day us humans destroy the earth with polution by driving gas powered cars.

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Devastating Effects of Car Pollution on the Environment

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There are millions of cars on our roads and each one of them is a potential contributor to environmental pollution. Cars emit poisonous gases which impact the environment, apart from causing numerous life-threatening diseases in human beings. Let us know more about the impact of car pollution on the environment.

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https://www.humansandnature.org/The-Root-Cause-of-Climate-Change
We are pumping heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere and this is causing Earth to heat up with potentially catastrophic consequences.