Conservation vs. Preservation

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Conservation vs. Preservation February 17, 2013 SCI/275 When we are dealing with the environment we have two types’ ways of dealing and they are conservation and preservation. Conservation is a sustainable use of the natural resource of the earth. Examples of the resources are water, air, and earth deposits. Preservation is the way of maintaining the earth to make sure it stays the same way as it was before we took something from it. Each person that deals with the environment falls under one of these categories. When dealing with conservation we are dealing with renewable and nonrenewable resources. Renewable resources would be replanting trees that we cut down. Many times people cut down trees and do not replant, or they were cut down to clear out for new buildings. Nonrenewable resources is things like fossil fuels, once we use them they are gone. When it comes to cutting trees down from our forest, I believe we should not cut them down. The reason behind this is we are robbing the wildlife of their homes. Even though we replant the trees the wildlife is not going to come back for a while. I believe we should find another resource and stay away from our forest. When we are dealing with preservation we are just leaving the planet as we know it is. We are trying to leave everything as we found it, so there is no big change in the environment. This would help the planet regrow on its own and heal its self, but we would need to find other resources and alternative things to replace what we from the earth. Wildlife and the environment had nothing to worry about before mankind. Nothing was threatened, everything lived in peace. I believe we could compromise with some things and do without. Nature has the right to live just as we do and we should let them live and stop destroying everything we touch. This planet would be so much healthier than it is
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