I believe it's important to protect the environment because it provides our resources for energy and food amongst other things. We need to find other ways of getting energy to help with the fight against global warming or the earth as we know it now will disappear. Also oil is starting to reach its peak so we might soon run out so we have to find alternative sources because now we have energy e.g. lights, heating etc we can't go back to how it was in the 19th centuary when there was no lights or cars etc. The scottish government has a purpose to help scotland grow economically but sustainably, this website shows a video of its energy efficiency action plan. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/SustainableDevelopment
Overall my lifestyle is sustainable in some ways but i could be alot more sustainable. For example i recyle as many things as i can like paper, plastic, tins and glass bottles but sometimes things that should be recyled don't get put in our recyling bin because rubbish takes time to sort into different bins so in a busy lifestyle its hard to remember to recyle everything. In our district we are provided with our own recycling bins for different waste e.g one for paper and cardboard, one for tins,plastics and bottles, one for garden waste like cutting off trees and just an ordinary waste bin. So really we should recyle everything that can be recycled.
I do use a car to drive to university each day when i could take the train or bus. Its just easier for me to take the car instead like many other people. At home i use computers, televisions and things that use electricity and our heating in our house is powered by oil!
we need to be more sustainable and find other ways of cutting our energy consumption to meet the governments CO2 emission cutting targets for 2050 or risk losing our earth's wildlife like the polar bear and our climate as it is today for future generations.
