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After watching the HOME video, I realize that it is becoming more and more crucial for us to pay more attention to our environment. Like what it said, everything in the world is link together- air, water, soil and the nature habitat. And the link between them are fragile, they can be easily broken and can’t or hard to recover. The planet is form in 4 billion years ago and human being only has a history of 200 thousands years. Yet we are bless with the natural resources and the environment which is made available to us after 4 billion year of evolution in the earth. Volcano area is a good indication on how it look like in the earth 4 billion years ago, full of dust and fire. Then come the initial life form in the hot spring- bacterial which than lead to other type of life form in the earth. The nature is nicely balance before human being come into the cycle. The layer of ice that form on the top of the ocean in the cold region during winter to make the undersea prevent against the cold, so the living thing under the sea can survive in the winter as well. Then the rainforests which prevent a place for the habitats for the animals, forming the balance food chain and holding the soil from erosion and storing CO2 and producing oxygen. These are some of the example of how nature is balance. With the bless of resources like oil, coal, forest… we are growing faster and faster, especially in the past 50 years, with the oil revolution, we have change the face of earth more than the changes that have taken place in the past generations. In Shaihai for example, 3000 sky towers have been build in the mere 20 years time. Also, the use of fertilizers, pesticides, chemicals and a lot other polluted products, they all contribute to the pollution of the environment. ¼ of the animal species are predicted to extinct in the next 30 years due to destruction of the nature. The video show us how transform of energy occur- the available of fruits in the supermarket at the expense of the drying Gordon river and a lot of other rivers in the world. Also, 100liter of water give 1 kg of potato, 4,000 liter give 1kg rice and 13,000liter give 1kg beef.

Nevertheless, the natural resource is not equally distributed, 1 in 4 persons live in the type of environment same as 6000 years ago, their energy source is from the natural and the season, education is a rare previlange for them. And 1 in 6 people live in place with poor hygience condition. Yet 80 % of the world minerals are being use by 20% of the population only.

We are now in a world that is depleting the natural resources faster than it can regenerate and they are not been equally distributed. We can only do so by changing our lifestyle and helping others in the poor nation. For example, donating, eating more vege than meat products, use water and electricity wisely and recycle our waste and ect. As a designer, this also tell me that designing a product is not only all about the outlook and the function now, but also about the ‘greenness’ of the product. So that as a human being, I will fulfill my responsibility for the nature.