1000 Flowers for the Planet - #57 Care for River Systems

1000 Flowers for the Planet - #57 Care for River Systems

There are so many reasons why we should care for river systems I cannot possibly relay them all here. Our rivers are like the blood in our veins. They provide us with life. Without them, we do not exist. When they are polluted they make us ill. We must care for river systems.

How do we do this? I’ve already mentioned them several times in previous Flowers. Reduce waste to landfill which often ends up in waterways; prevent urban run-off; don’t litter the streets; lobby corporations who allow poor manufacturing processes that poison rivers systems; don’t build in certain areas; plan logging carefully to avoid soil erosion. The list goes on.

Sadly, most of what we do affects our river systems in a negative way. We need to think about what we’re doing, and use our intelligence to shift our habits and invent better ways to exist.