Most Important Security

Although I do think that all seven securities are essential to the well-being of a person, I must admit that environmental security comes first in the line of descending importance. This is because of the obvious: every resource we need and use to live is on this planet, nowhere else. When society worries about the lack of food for all 8 billion people it has to do with farms and the terrain. Deforestation over the past century has eroded farmland into desert. The Gobi desert, according to a documentary I watched a couple of years ago, is expanding because there are fewer and fewer trees to retain water necessary to maintain the environment. This means less farmable land and smaller crop yields worldwide. When scientists and people worry about global warming and the future of Earth they realize that civilization can drastically be altered by its effects. With an increase in climate instability, there has come with it more natural disasters and uneven distribution of rain. Drought is prominent in the midwest and Texas right now, hurting our farmers and further lowering crop yields. Hurricane Katrina left a port city in ruins, costing the United States millions of dollars as well as many lives. The tsunamis in Japan a couple of years ago had even more detrimental effects. The development of industrialization and urbanization has changed the environment, destroying health security. Children raised in cities have been proven to be more at risk for allergies and asthma because of the poor air quality, according to a cool book I read: Good Germs, Bad Germs. It is important to address environmental security first because it affects the food we eat, where we live, and the air we breathe.