The Earth was approximately formed 4.6 billion years ago. Humans evolved 140,000 years ago. To put that into perspective, if Earth’s lifespan had to be condensed into one full day, roughly humans have only lived here for three seconds. In that three seconds, humans have caused extinction, deforestation, pollution, poverty, terrorism and discrimination. And now global warming. The truth is, humans alone have been one of the leading causes of global warming. Over the past 20 years, forest wild fires have doubled just in Canada, due to the increase in global temperatures (IPCC 2001). A recent wildfire that has occurred in Canada was the Fort Mcmurray wildfire in Alberta. This disaster caused up to 90,000 people to evacuate and cosumed about
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The Calgary Flood which occurred on June, 22, 2013 caused $4.8 billion dollars in economic losses (Reserved & News, 2013). The clean up bill alone came to $1.9 billion (Reserved & News, 2013). Global warming has not only affected individuals and the economy, but it also affected businesses. The Canadian Plains, beautiful barren lands, have had their risk of desertification to have increased by 50% due to recent conditions (2020, 2014). This causes unemployement of agriculture, abandonnement of farms and no fresh food on the table. In the span of three seconds, humans have caused all this upon themselves. But Canadians are getting on board to lessen the effects og global warming, nationally and globally. Now that Canadians are realizing the severity of global warming, not only will they help to lessen it, but they will also be trend setters for the rest of the …show more content…
Companies are making themselves eco-friendly by using eco-friendly bags, fuel saving devices in cars, sfiting to renewable enery, etc... West Fraser Mills Ltd., a wood company has created a way to turn their pulp waste from from one of their factories, Slave Lake Pulp Mill, to electricity. By doing so, they use 7 less megawatts of electricity to annually to operate the mill (Alberta, 2012). This not only reduces natural gas usage by 164,000 gigajoules, but also cuts greenhouse gas emission by 45,000 tonnes per year (Alberta, 2012). West Fraser Mills has not only contributed their part in global warming, but they have created a futuristic strategy, that makes them ahead of the game and helps others follow the same trend. Chrystler Canada Inc., a car company, has taken a part in lessening the effects of global warming by replacing its control panels with smart systems that have improved heating ventilation and exhaust systems throughout their facilities. This strategy is a 27% reduction of gigajoules every single day in their facilities. And by doing so , they have reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by 9% at their factory. Not only are individual companies coming up with new and innovative ways to combat global warming, but they are also helping other companies to do the same. When businesses are
The Calgary Flood which occurred on June, 22, 2013 caused $4.8 billion dollars in economic losses (Reserved & News, 2013). The clean up bill alone came to $1.9 billion (Reserved & News, 2013). Global warming has not only affected individuals and the economy, but it also affected businesses. The Canadian Plains, beautiful barren lands, have had their risk of desertification to have increased by 50% due to recent conditions (2020, 2014). This causes unemployement of agriculture, abandonnement of farms and no fresh food on the table. In the span of three seconds, humans have caused all this upon themselves. But Canadians are getting on board to lessen the effects og global warming, nationally and globally. Now that Canadians are realizing the severity of global warming, not only will they help to lessen it, but they will also be trend setters for the rest of the …show more content…
Companies are making themselves eco-friendly by using eco-friendly bags, fuel saving devices in cars, sfiting to renewable enery, etc... West Fraser Mills Ltd., a wood company has created a way to turn their pulp waste from from one of their factories, Slave Lake Pulp Mill, to electricity. By doing so, they use 7 less megawatts of electricity to annually to operate the mill (Alberta, 2012). This not only reduces natural gas usage by 164,000 gigajoules, but also cuts greenhouse gas emission by 45,000 tonnes per year (Alberta, 2012). West Fraser Mills has not only contributed their part in global warming, but they have created a futuristic strategy, that makes them ahead of the game and helps others follow the same trend. Chrystler Canada Inc., a car company, has taken a part in lessening the effects of global warming by replacing its control panels with smart systems that have improved heating ventilation and exhaust systems throughout their facilities. This strategy is a 27% reduction of gigajoules every single day in their facilities. And by doing so , they have reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by 9% at their factory. Not only are individual companies coming up with new and innovative ways to combat global warming, but they are also helping other companies to do the same. When businesses are