Climate Change: A Not So Positive Change Earth. Our planet, our shelter, our home. With its green pastures and its shimmering blue skies and oceans. Now glimpse one hundred years into the future. Imagine it partly gone and destroyed, along with its diverse sceneries and animals. Contaminated with hazardous chemicals and the litter we didn’t give much thought to when we disposed of it incorrectly. Now a dangerously harmful and inhabitable place where our children and grandchildren will have to live just because we were careless for half a second and could not find a trash can. This the only planet we have. If we destroy this one, then where will we go ? It is important to take into consideration these significant facts to realize we have to
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The causation of climate change and the change in weather patterns is a very difficult problem to pinpoint because there are many different factors that contribute to it, but scientists have commonly agreed the major cause comes directly from pollution. Whether it be smog from cars or physical pollution, such as plastic bottles littering our oceans, it is important to know that some of these small contributions can have a very harmful impact if they are continuously repeated. While these by-products may be unsafe, they all do share a common trait. They all originate from the same material--- crude oil. This oil that is extracted deep from the bottom of the ocean is so commonly used that it has become a part of our everyday life. Crude oil while being so damaging is still used for common things like gas, containers and plastic bottles. An average plastic bottle takes up to four hundred and fifty years just to decompose while still leaving its harsh chemicals in the soil.
While this may be the most commonly known form of pollution, there are also other ways the world may be polluting without even knowing about it. The very consumption of water and energy in our homes can be a particular contributing factor. Products such as coal and nuclear fission are used in the process of creating energy that feeds the very electric grid that powers our cities and homes which create contamination …show more content…
By starting to make different adjustments to our daily lives and putting up stricter regulations by our governments, we can slowly reverse these scenarios and maybe stop them from happening altogether. Just by making some changes such as recycling better or conserving water and energy we can reduce pollution by a significant amount. If we all put in our little grain of sand, we could create change faster than any previous generation. Additionally, by switching over to hybrid or electric cars we can also reduce the amount of smog and carbon from the air and make healthier living conditions for us and our neighborhoods. Comparatively, by planting trees approved in our area, we can reduce the amount of pollution along with the active choice of picking out food that is in season and preventing the supermarkets from importing food that may not be in season and may be forced to be brought over from another country. All this can be achieved through guidelines that our governments can create to live better and healthier lives. That is why there will be an arranged conference at the end of 2015 in Paris to reach an agreement on this ongoing debate on climate change. These small changes in our lifestyles can make a notable change that our children will thank us for
The causation of climate change and the change in weather patterns is a very difficult problem to pinpoint because there are many different factors that contribute to it, but scientists have commonly agreed the major cause comes directly from pollution. Whether it be smog from cars or physical pollution, such as plastic bottles littering our oceans, it is important to know that some of these small contributions can have a very harmful impact if they are continuously repeated. While these by-products may be unsafe, they all do share a common trait. They all originate from the same material--- crude oil. This oil that is extracted deep from the bottom of the ocean is so commonly used that it has become a part of our everyday life. Crude oil while being so damaging is still used for common things like gas, containers and plastic bottles. An average plastic bottle takes up to four hundred and fifty years just to decompose while still leaving its harsh chemicals in the soil.
While this may be the most commonly known form of pollution, there are also other ways the world may be polluting without even knowing about it. The very consumption of water and energy in our homes can be a particular contributing factor. Products such as coal and nuclear fission are used in the process of creating energy that feeds the very electric grid that powers our cities and homes which create contamination …show more content…
By starting to make different adjustments to our daily lives and putting up stricter regulations by our governments, we can slowly reverse these scenarios and maybe stop them from happening altogether. Just by making some changes such as recycling better or conserving water and energy we can reduce pollution by a significant amount. If we all put in our little grain of sand, we could create change faster than any previous generation. Additionally, by switching over to hybrid or electric cars we can also reduce the amount of smog and carbon from the air and make healthier living conditions for us and our neighborhoods. Comparatively, by planting trees approved in our area, we can reduce the amount of pollution along with the active choice of picking out food that is in season and preventing the supermarkets from importing food that may not be in season and may be forced to be brought over from another country. All this can be achieved through guidelines that our governments can create to live better and healthier lives. That is why there will be an arranged conference at the end of 2015 in Paris to reach an agreement on this ongoing debate on climate change. These small changes in our lifestyles can make a notable change that our children will thank us for