Sustainability:
Sustainability means to be able to be balanced with the environment and to take care of nature the way we would ourselves so that the world can continue to function the way it does today. It is very important to have this quality because we need to look after the environment. I think that too many people disregard the environment and always put their own thoughts before the environment’s well being. Sustainability is an important teaching and should be thought about more often.
In class this year, we learned about how much energy we use and how we could reduce our energy usage. We also learned about renewable energy and non-renewable energy sources. Non-renewable energy sources weren’t the best for our environment but people still continue to use them with no regards to our planet. We need more sustainability so that we can continue to live on our planet peacefully and so that we work harder on making use of our renewable energy so our planet can breathe.
Interconnectedness:
Interconnectedness with first peoples principles means to have everyone know that everything is connected by their roots and that by doing one thing differently than how you would normally do it, will affect everything that comes after. People can have interconnected relationships as well, meaning that they are very connected and if things aren’t how they normally are, something could change in their relationship. For example, if one person acts differently to the other, or in a rude manner, it will cause problems with the relationship because they are so connected. If they didn’t have an interconnected relationship, then it wouldn’t change much if one person acts differently, because they didn’t have any connecting roots in the first place.
Something that we had learned this year about the environment that has a link with interconnectedness would food chains and cycles. If one animal in the food chain disappears, the whole chain will falter and the animal species in the chain will not be very stable. It’s almost the same with cycles. For example, in the water cycle, if the ice from the mountains would not melt and fall onto the ground, there would be no water to evaporate or steam, so there would be no condensation, meaning there would be no rain, and the whole cycle would fall apart. If the cycle fell apart, so would our water source and things would not go very smoothly.