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Metro Los Angeles County Clubs & Organizations Earth Systems Science, Inc. Environmental Awareness and Education Click to Enlarge Why Worry about the Environment? The environment, your surroundings, can affect your life, health, and safety. Life-threatening environmental conditions can occur during storms, floods, earthquakes, and other natural hazards. Being aware of these dangers helps you to prepare for emergencies. Pollution poses many health risks that can kill you or cause illness. Sometimes the risks are clear and obvious. They directly affect you. Sometimes the risks are indirect and may take a long time to make you sick. So some environmental problems can affect more than one generation. All these things can make a place dangerous. Most people want to be in a safe place. You can make your neighborhood safer by being aware of local environmental hazards. Once you understand the problems, you can begin to take action to protect and improve your neighborhood. Why Learn About The Environment? We have only one Earth. That is the only home for all the people in the world. We must learn to protect our "home" and keep it clean. Education is the key to learning and understanding the environment. This can also lead to an enjoyable job that lets you work outdoors in nature. What Can You Do With Environmental Knowledge? You can use your environmental awareness and knowledge to protect and improve the environment of your neighborhood. This can lead to a better quality of life for you and your family. For example, the Expo Neighbors Association planted 2500 trees in their area. That helped beautify their neighborhood. And the trees play a part in cleaning the air. These actions improve the quality of life for the people in that neighborhood. Visit the Expo Neighbors web site for details about that project. © 2002, Earth Systems Science, Inc. All rights reserved. Email Us earthsystemsscience@yahoo.com Favorite Links Expo Neighbors Association Privacy Statement Neighborhood Link Terms of Use © 1997 - 2006 Neighborhood Link, Inc.