Is The Ignorance A Big Treat For Conservation?

The topic, “Uganda; Ignorance Is Big Threat to Conservation”, was so obviously to let readers to know his purpose. In the article, he mentioned his two main ideas; the land’s value is not decided by its price and financial system, and the governments failed to perform the role as a natural resources protector.

As long as mankind started to be aware that our environment has been destroyed by us, there have been a lot of presses, newspapers, magazines and TV programs have that argued and written essays on this issue. There were bunches of different fields of specialists that have been offering their own specialized advice to the whole world till today; however, it was too complicated what they said to us, to let everybody understand it. The author’s two main ideas not only enlighten me to have new concepts of conservation, but also let me strongly agree with them.

The land’s value is not decided by the price in the short term. It is hard to price a piece of land except for some of its natural resources such as useful minerals, high economic value of timbers and the skin of animals. For instance, 20 years ago, nobody cared about the fact of which countries owned the North Pole plain. The reason was not only its extremely cold weather but its also valuelessness. Within ten years, global warming has been making North Pole’s ice shrink and the land appeared, and each country sent their scientists to its ground and found out that it has petroleum in large quantity. Those countries claimed themselves to be owner of it. And these will probably exploit it in the future. We all know that North Pole has vast and giant ice. If we exploit it to get the petroleum, the temperature of the earth will accelerate in its rise. At the time, not only while the North Pole melt, but also Antarctica will. It will not be so hard to imagine how much the ocean level rises. Furthermore, the ocean ecology will also confront an unbalanced situation. Some species will be endangered, and others will be extinct. As a result, the resources are going to be consumed quickly or changed sooner.

To price a piece of land’s value in the long term— land’s value is not only according to its useful resources, but also must considers its renewal cycle and ecosystem. Renewal cycle is how fast the natural resources would become the same as its original situation after we take the resource away. The ecosystem shall always be in the balance whatever we get.

Our environment has getting being worse and worse day by day, because our government does not play a role as a protector well. A government has a lot of workers and scientists working for it. And it gathers much advice for its laws and strategies. People follow the laws and strategies. If a government lacks a long term prospect or neglects how important the natural resource is, or constantly gets the natural resources by force from somewhere and else or some other countries, the natural lives and mankind tragedies will happen over and over again. For example, World War I and II made many people, animals and plants die. Some other places are still under the radiation’s effect, so that grounds can not grow any plant and the animal’s genes are changed. Moreover, some countries has overexploited such that their animals and plants are extinct for good. And then we faced tremendous bug disasters. These are telling us how important it is for a government to perform its role as a watcher and do it well.

After the industrial revolution, human’s population had exponential growth and we needed the natural resources more and more. If there were not valuable resources on the land, we would even give it our eye, and then keep it as what it was. For the useful resources of land, we developed the land for manufacturing or for cities; and we grabbed them from somewhere off the land, which produce of them as products to fit our demands. On the other hand, pricing a land’s value is based on what we can get from it. We price them in the term of economy. Somehow, we forgot that we were a part of the food chain.
The food chain is processed as invisible and nature is above everything. We price the land’s value and overexploit it until the food chain runs out of its balanced situation, then we are going to endanger ourselves.

Reference
Africa News. (2007, March 15). Uganda;
Ignorance is Big Threat to Conservation. Retrieved October 29th 2007 from Lexis-Nexis