Part 1
Dauren Dembayev
INTRODUCTION
© Dauren Dembayev, 2019
ISBN 978-5-4496-1941-9 (т. 1)
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Hello, dear readers!
In our time of rapid progress of science and technology, the growth of production and population consumption of all kinds of resources increases exponentially. There is a ruthless deforestation, we often hear in the media about the illegal fishing rare species. There is a strong depletion of soil through land development and planting. And what does hunting wild animals lead to when they are killed not only for food, but also for valuable fur and horns? Today, this kind of pastime is not accepted by everyone, but there are those who want to show their skills. Today, hunting wild animals, as a rule, is unnecessary fun, which causes irreplaceable damage to nature and man.
The reserves of land, seas and oceans are becoming poorer, many species of flora and fauna are irretrievably disappearing, and the Red book is constantly updated with new species.
The growth of the world’s population requires an increase in the consumption of everything on the planet: from food and water to minerals and agricultural products. And let humanity choking in smog, and let some people starve and die from the lack of clean drinking water, consumption is still increasing, as the world’s population is growing, so the increase in consumption cannot be stopped. Humanity needs food and water, clothing and entertainment more and more.
Increased consumption also worsens the global environment. Sinkholes, water pollution, increased morbidity and much more – that’s what we have today.
Certainly, on a global scale, much is being done to improve the environmental situation and meet the growing demand for resources: trees, shrubs, ornamental green spaces are planted, water is purified, animals, birds and fish are bred on the verge of extinction. Scientists and inventors are fighting for environmentally friendly production and alternative energy sources.
However, we must admit that all our attempts to restore resources do not give significant results, we do not keep up with the growth of consumption. And consumption as never high today, it will be even higher tomorrow!
In addition, I know that every person on the planet would like and most importantly – can help to preserve the wealth of our Earth, regardless of what he is doing, whether he is already saving the planet or not. But I think everyone would like to contribute to saving our planet from exhaustion.
And we can make it happen!
I am absolutely sure that we will be able not only to save millions of everything, but also to save hundreds of species of animals without any special skills and knowledge, but only by care, responsibility for the future of generations and precision.
You ask how this can be achieved? In my book I will try to explain in a simple way.
Many people are already doing this, often without even knowing, moreover, they clearly show, tell and prove it all on their life experience.
In this book I only tried to collect and generalize that already do thousands of people, probably, I will add something new, my own…
So, where was I?
First of all, about individual saving of each of us, living on the planet Earth. I am talking about individual savings, when state programs and controls are not needed; when the forces of the government, large companies and international associations are neither needed.
So what is individual savings?
Look around and you will see how literally in every detail we can save the resources of the planet, leaving the opportunity for future generations to use them. And future generations, our children, looking at us, will also save, without making special efforts for this. Our children and grandchildren will do it easily, as their parents taught them.
If everyone will take into account and use at least some of the tips in this book, it is safe to say that the result will not be long in coming.
Believe me, if we multiply the individual savings of a single person by the number of inhabitants of the Earth, the savings will take a planetary scale. All together we can so much money ad resources that we will be amazed how effective it is!
For example, take the average data. From 1 tree of are produced 11 855 sheets of paper. That is, if 11,855 people save 1 sheet of paper, and office workers are able to do it in 1 day, we will save the whole tree in a day. And if each of them for the whole life will save 1 000 sheets of paper, which is only 2 packs of office paper, then they will save from cutting down 1 000 trees! As you know, there are more than 7 billion of us on the planet, so it is easy to calculate how many trees will survive, if we save only 1 sheet of paper. The number will be overwhelming-590 468 trees!
You have the right to ask what was my motivation to write this book, what led me to do this?
For some time, I suddenly began to pay attention to how I use certain things or products. What I noticed is that in the refrigerator was spoiled a pack of milk, kilogram of fish had an expiration date, my computer was switched on in vain about a week; during 4 days I twice took full hot bath by adding sea salt; I accidentally printed the document of 20 sheets of blank paper.
Further, the memory of my computer was filled so that I had to buy 2 removable hard drives, and all because I considered each file very important and did not pay attention to the fact that half of the documents on the computer I simply do not need, they are outdated. Thus, it was enough to clean the computer from unnecessary documents without purchasing additional equipment.
It turns out that if I was neater, thrifty and attentive, in each of my actions there was the possibility to save.
Therefore, dear readers, after reading this book with due attention, you will be amazed how much you can save! And given that saving resources saves your money, more pleasant it will be to follow the advice of this book.
It is also necessary to remember that even if you buy an environmentally friendly product, for example, natural shampoo or fresh milk, which do not harm the environment, the production itself, including the production of packaging, labels, is often extremely harmful for nature (the use of chemicals for cleaning, packaging production, the use of wood for the production of labels and so on).
Even if the manufacturer tries to minimize the harmful effects on the environment (for example, he uses secondary raw materials to create labels, solar energy for the operation of mechanisms), environmental damage is still caused. Because production is increasing, we occupy large areas for solar panels, and for their production we increase, in particular, the production of silicon, but not only it. We transport the products using cars, consume gasoline, wear out tires and road surface. You know that many roads need regular repair, which includes oil in large volumes.
Even if we grow potatoes manually, without the use of tractors and chemicals, we still harm the nature, occupying the land area and taking away the water originally intended for wildlife. We buy tools for land cultivation, use chemicals against pests, then we carry the harvested potatoes to agricultural fairs and shops, spending gasoline, wearing out tires. And so on.
Giving such examples, I want to say that any human activity, no matter how harmless it may seem, harms the ecology of the Earth as a whole.
I don’t force humanity to become ascetic and clingy, but attentiveness will help us all save easily, as it is possible to save on what we don’t really need, which we can live without.
So read the book, follow the advice, save our planet and become richer!
From myself I want to add: I will certainly keep a record of books sold to find out how many trees I “cut down”, instead of which I will plant new ones in order to restore the environment affected