She is mysterious, wise beyond our human comprehension, a true beauty that is unmatched. She provides us with many priceless gifts and doesn’t ask for much in return. Her fragrance, her curves and rolling hills filed with the many trees, niches and everything else that makes life on her possible. The beauty we call Earth is remarkable. Even with all the extraordinary gifts Earth provides us with, we take it for granted. There is not another place in the entire universe we know of that can sustain life. Why do we corrupt the only place that allows us to experience the majesty of life? The many different ecosystems throughout the planet have been tarnished with pollution of the air, water, and land. Our selfishness and lack of concern has led
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If you observe the way that the earth uses energy you will see that everything is a repeating cycle, and that any cycle on earth yields zero waste. So could it be the earth has been showing us the entire time the key to maintaining a stable environment is to use renewable energy sources? We should take heed of the earth’s advice. Renewable energy sources give off no waste and by using them instead of nonrenewable sources we would be able to cut down of the damage we have done to the environments atmosphere drastically, and in turn we would be creating a better life behind for future generations. We owe it to earth to explore other options. Jeff Brady of NPR ( Brady, Jeff. Solar Power Project Would Generate Electricity 24 Hours A Day.) mentioned that Nevada is working on a solar energy project that could generate enough electricity to power more than 640,000 U.S. homes. Implementing that could be a great start to weaning ourselves off of fossil fuels. The bad emissions of CO-2 and other harmful chemicals (Renewable Energy Standards—Mitigating Global Warming (n.d.): n. pag. Union of Concerned Scientist.) would be greatly reduced in the atmosphere if Nevada was successful. Creating the new plants needed for producing renewable energy would create jobs in various different fields. If we convert over to clean energy it would create 200,000 jobs every year till 2020 and rise to 800,000 a year in 2050 (BRECHER, JEREMY. "Jobs, Justice, and the Clean-Energy Future." Issue 326).The Environmental Protection Agency held the first in a series of public hearings on its proposed Clean Power Plan. The plan would cut carbon pollution from existing fossil-fuel power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 (Environmental Protection Agency. C-SPAN.org. N.p.). The House of Representatives (Ways and Means. H.Res.540 — 114th Congress) has said that the United States goal is to use 100 percent clean
If you observe the way that the earth uses energy you will see that everything is a repeating cycle, and that any cycle on earth yields zero waste. So could it be the earth has been showing us the entire time the key to maintaining a stable environment is to use renewable energy sources? We should take heed of the earth’s advice. Renewable energy sources give off no waste and by using them instead of nonrenewable sources we would be able to cut down of the damage we have done to the environments atmosphere drastically, and in turn we would be creating a better life behind for future generations. We owe it to earth to explore other options. Jeff Brady of NPR ( Brady, Jeff. Solar Power Project Would Generate Electricity 24 Hours A Day.) mentioned that Nevada is working on a solar energy project that could generate enough electricity to power more than 640,000 U.S. homes. Implementing that could be a great start to weaning ourselves off of fossil fuels. The bad emissions of CO-2 and other harmful chemicals (Renewable Energy Standards—Mitigating Global Warming (n.d.): n. pag. Union of Concerned Scientist.) would be greatly reduced in the atmosphere if Nevada was successful. Creating the new plants needed for producing renewable energy would create jobs in various different fields. If we convert over to clean energy it would create 200,000 jobs every year till 2020 and rise to 800,000 a year in 2050 (BRECHER, JEREMY. "Jobs, Justice, and the Clean-Energy Future." Issue 326).The Environmental Protection Agency held the first in a series of public hearings on its proposed Clean Power Plan. The plan would cut carbon pollution from existing fossil-fuel power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 (Environmental Protection Agency. C-SPAN.org. N.p.). The House of Representatives (Ways and Means. H.Res.540 — 114th Congress) has said that the United States goal is to use 100 percent clean