Creation

There are connections in creation. Over the years God has shown us how animals from other countries can affect the environment. An example of this is a beetle called the Emerald Ash Borer. Humans are everywhere we are able to destroy an ecosystem without even trying. We give off waste which enters our environment and kills plants and animals. Our waste is also a great home for diseases to grow. Humans like any living animals need food, but in some cases we over hunt, or just hunt for the pleasure of it. We do not know when to quit.

The Emerald Ash Borer affects North American Forests. The Emerald Ash Borer is a native beetle of Asia. It is also called an Asian hitchhiker. The beetle was first found in North America a few years ago. This beetle has no natural enemies. They live in a variety of hardwood trees. The body of an adult is narrow and has a beautiful metallic blue-green colour. The eggs are light-yellow colour, turning to brownish yellow before hatching, they are oval shaped. Mature larvae are twenty-six to thirty-two mm long and creamy colour. The Pupae are ten to fourteen mm long and they are creamy in colour. During the females life span they can mate several times and can lay about sixty-eight to eighty eggs at a time. When the eggs hatch the larvae bore through the bark to feed on the phloem and eventually feed from tunnels that are flat and wide. The adult then bores a D-shaped exit hole from the tree trunk. On windy and rainy days beetles rest in bark crevices or under leaf stalks. When they are disturbed, they fall to the ground and fake death. During early infestation the insect population is low so the damage is low. At one to two years of infestation, the bark falls off in pieces from damaged trees thereby exposing the tunnels ridden sapwood. At two to three years of infestation the population grows, and eventually the nutrients and water transport systems are disrupted. They seem to kill apparently healthy trees. In severe cases entire stands may be destroyed. The news report stated that, "In Chatham there has been evidence of the beetle in over two-hundred ash trees. As a result many of these and more will be cut down. Last year they cut down more than 84,000 ash trees to try to slow down the bug's spread. It did work but did not last forever. They now are faced with a hard decision to do nothing about it; continue to cut down infested trees and quarantine a five-hundred m zone around them; or cut more aggressively." Ash is a popular shade tree and is an important tree used for furniture. If the Ash Borer killed off all the ash trees this use for furniture would become rare. God created the Emerald Ash Borer but human's somehow, disrupted the environment, just like they have done in other places. An example of this is human waste.

Human Waste affects the environment. Waste is something that the body gives off in order to get rid of digested food. Our waste, if not treated properly enters the environment as a solid or gas. The human population is increasing everyday, which means there are more and more people to give off waste. We have so much of it, that the industries have to get rid of it in an unsanitary way. If our waste enters the waters in our rivers and lakes, it can kill our fish, and the birds that eat the fish. Our beautiful beaches would become ruined, with muck and garbage, it would no longer be a sanitary place to swim. In some areas they are starting to spread human waste on fields. You never know what is in it, maybe chemicals, or hygienic material. In some cases you can see this type of material lying on the ground. Chemicals, that are in the waste and then spread on a field, can toxicate and make the food, we eat, poisonous. It does not have to be this way, we could learn to organize and separate our waste or we could compost it. There are many ways in which we could help but it would be hard to mention them all considering the amount of new material and technology we do not yet know of. In some homes people have put large buckets, which all their waste and compost material can be put in, instead of going to an industry. Every day our waste falls to the ground and pollutes our environment. We have to learn to control what we flush down the toilet or rinse down the sink. The toilet is not a garbage, what you put in it does not just disappear but