The preservation or destruction of one critically important eco system on earth will ultimately determine the survival of humans and all life that needs to breathe air and drink water.
This eco system will also determine a lot about the consequences of climate change.
Preserving this eco system is all about preserving the earths environment.
The eco system is the Amazon Rainforest.
This is the most important eco system on earth in many ways.
The Amazon acts as an air filter for the worlds air, produces a large percentage of the worlds fresh water and acts as a pharmacy to the world, providing a vast store of benefits for human health.
If anyone is wondering what they can do to preserve the earth's environment, helping to preserve the Rainforest would be right up there with the most important actions one can take.
If you think about what will make the most difference for global environmental preservation, preserving the Amazon Rainforest is critical.
If we fail to act and the Amazon's eco system is destroyed, it is estimated that the sustainability of human life will be in doubt as well as most other kinds of life.
The effort to preserve the Amazon Rainforest is world wide.
There are many organizations taking a wide range of actions to stop the destruction of this critically important eco system.
From political action, legal actions and the influencing of the governments of the countries that control the Amazon.
These kinds of actions are an important part of the global preservation effort.
The forces that are contributing to the destruction of the Amazon eco system are all about economic interest, namely profit.
Resource removal, deforesting for unsustainable farming, beef production and other unsustainable and damaging actions, are all for profit.
Ironically, one of the most promising and effective preservation actions an individual can take and the actions being taken by the interests that are doing the destruction are both about economics.
Money talks! The governments, the tribal indigenous peoples and everybody else that lives in and ultimately controls the future of the Amazon Rainforest need and want an economically sustainable future.
The most successful and viable action being taken to preserve the Amazon is to show everyone involved that the Rainforest is more valuable and profitable alive than dead.
The long term health and prosperity of the Rainforest and for human sustainability on earth is about preserving and sustainably utilizing the wealth of the Amazon.
Individual people can help preserve the environment by helping to support the people that live in the Rainforest.
Not by just giving them money but by engaging with them in economic partnership.
Creating partnerships to help them market the sustainably harvested fair trade products coming out of the Amazon.
Showing the people and the governments that the sustainably utilized wealth of the Amazont can benefit the world and at the same time insure the future sustainability of the Rainforest, its people and the region..
Individuals here in the U.
S.
and in other wealthy countries can help preserve the environment by going into business partnerships to market the sustainably produced fair trade goods from the Amazon to the populations of wealthy countries.
This kind of action facilitates and promotes the fact that the Amazon Rainforest has far more economic value as a thriving rich and alive eco system.
This kind of action for global environmental preservation is available to every individual who wants to participate.
The really great result is that you get to be part of preserving the Amazon Rainforest which is critical to preserving the earths environment, you help to facilitate economic sustainability for indigenous tribes and other citizens of the Amazon regions and you yourself can benefit economically as well.
It is fast becoming understood that the solutions for environmental preservation are coming from individual grassroots action through sustainable and equitable economic partnerships.
Its when the peoples of the world act together for the common good of the planet and the sustainability of life, that true environmental preservation occurs.