Why is it important for us to be aware of the importance of Environmental Health?
What can you do to enhance your local environment to ensure a longer and healthier life? (Try to think of at least 3-5 concrete things.) Include these in your initial discussion post as goals to try over the rest of the week.
Environmental health is the branch of public health concerns with monitoring how the environment affects human health. Not only does environmental health affects our health, but it also affects the air we breathe, our water supply, and our shelter.
It is important for us to be aware of the importance of environmental health because it affects humans. If our environment is not clean and healthy, then neither will we. It’s a cause and effect type of problem because a problem just doesn’t affect one thing, it affects multiple things. If we are not aware of the importance of environmental health, then we would be suffering right now because trees and plants are not growing. If there are no trees, then our oxygen levels will be low and carbon dioxide will be high.
Some stuff I could do to enhance my local environment is to stop using plastic straws and use a metal straw, recycle all the plastic bottles I use, carry around my HydroFlask instead of grabbing a water bottle, and turn off electronics that I do not use.
REFLECTION: In this discussion, we first had to figure out what environmental health was. It was relating to how the environment and human health are connected. This is extremely important because of the environment is harmed, then so is human health. This is why global warming is so important and should not be ignored. Individuals need to find a way to cut off all the wasted plastic bags and water bottles by buying reusable cups and reusable bags. Answering these questions really made me think of how badly humans are treating the Earth and the environment. More and more trees are getting cut down and being replaced by apartment buildings and/or business buildings. There are currently so many empty buildings in Downtown Los Angeles, but the city refuses to do something about it. This really affects our environmental health and everyone needs to chip in to fix it. This discussion really brought up a lot of questions about human beings and the bad relationship it has with Earth.