Our school paper moderator once asked me to write an article about mother earth and I came across with these statements
"The aggression towards Mother Earth and the repeated assaults and
violations against our soils, air, forests, rivers, lakes,and biodiversity are assaults against us.” From this statement I can say that mother earth is just giving back to us what we have done to her, like when trees are being cut she reminds us that we have done something wrong when we are visited by floods and landslides and the increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that may lead to global warming.And when our environment has been polluted, she raises her sentiments through red tide, fish kills, and allows pests to attack on our food supply because they(the pest) too have lost their foods and shelter through man's fault. therefore the effect is on us, thus this second statement "Mother Earth can live without us, but we can't live without her" is true.