From my understanding, the so called "
environmental protection" we heard about from the mass media or the mass market is actually misleading. As long as there is "human civilization", anything we did would only cause "damage" to the earth (the environment). Unless homo sapien can re-define our living ideology (consumption/production based economic growth, materialistic based improvement of living standard, unlimited modernization etc.), what we can do now at this moment is only to reduce the rate of damage to the environment.
Frankly, living in the "civilized" society such as Hong Kong, almost all my daily life activities are causing damages to the environment inevitably. But I found I have changed my living style in the recent years (doing less harm to the environment):
buy what I really need (if possible, buy 2nd-hand products) and reuse what I don't need (give/sell them out). This can not only save the money from my pocket, but hopefully, this can also contribute a tiny effort to "reduce the rate of damage to the environment".
