Many people didn’t know much about alternative energy sources until 2006 when Ale Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ shed some light on the environmental impacts of using fossil fuels as opposed to green energy. However, our past was actually filled with green energy, “Californians were entranced by the potential of wave power in the early 1900s, and solar water heaters used to be common in the early 1900s” (Walsh). Much of this was then switched over to fossil fuel energy because of how cheap it used to be. But times have changed, and as we quickly use up our reservoirs of fossil fuels, their costs have increased, and it is time to make the switch back to green energy. Conventional energy is so expensive that it is currently the second highest operating expenditure for schools after personnel costs, (Global Green USA). Districts are suffering, trying to cope with tight budgets, and not being able to afford other necessary resources for their schools. The prices of fossil fuels will continue to increase as they run out, therefore tightening already overly restrictive budgets. Experts estimate that at today 's consumption rates, known global supplies of oil and natural gas will be depleted within decades, (Chea). This is why action needs to be taken
Many people didn’t know much about alternative energy sources until 2006 when Ale Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ shed some light on the environmental impacts of using fossil fuels as opposed to green energy. However, our past was actually filled with green energy, “Californians were entranced by the potential of wave power in the early 1900s, and solar water heaters used to be common in the early 1900s” (Walsh). Much of this was then switched over to fossil fuel energy because of how cheap it used to be. But times have changed, and as we quickly use up our reservoirs of fossil fuels, their costs have increased, and it is time to make the switch back to green energy. Conventional energy is so expensive that it is currently the second highest operating expenditure for schools after personnel costs, (Global Green USA). Districts are suffering, trying to cope with tight budgets, and not being able to afford other necessary resources for their schools. The prices of fossil fuels will continue to increase as they run out, therefore tightening already overly restrictive budgets. Experts estimate that at today 's consumption rates, known global supplies of oil and natural gas will be depleted within decades, (Chea). This is why action needs to be taken