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Living green means understanding ecology and the earths systems and making choices about how to live in a way that is in harmony with those systems. It means appreciating that those systems are in a constant equilibrium with people and disrupting the balance in one area has a direct effect in another area. Living with a respect for these systems solves many if not all of the problems humans face.
- Famine
- One of the causes of famine (there are a few) comes from soil destruction and eventual desertification, which in turn renders it unable to grow food crops. By preventing the causes of soil destruction, such as over-grazing, over-farming and deforestation, you can prevent one cause of famine. A green practice that would prevent over-grazing, for example, is cattle rotation. By moving cattle into different pastures at different times, other pastures are allowed to rest and recover from the grazing. Grazing is actually highly beneficial to native plants when regulated this way and plant growth is healthy.
- Disease
- Living green with respect to disease means understanding the life-cycle of disease-causing pathogens. For example, malaria is spread by a mosquito which, when sprayed with fumigation along city streets merely builds up a more virulent mosquito that becomes more resistant to dying by that insecticide. The mosquito just becomes stronger and more able to spread disease.
- Water
- War
- Human Rights
- Mental Illness
- Poverty
- Crime
- Political Corruption
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