“The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that about 11% of world marketed energy consumption is from renewable energy sources” (U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2014). Renewable energy is often referred to as green because it is a strong for the environment, or so we think. Media covers a wide variety of global warming and greenhouse gas stories, but nobody seems to have a solution to the problems. This could be in large, because being green is such a vague topic. To discover what being green is I first had to search the definition of green. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that a product is considered “’greener’ if scientific evidence demonstrates that human health or environmental impacts have been significantly reduced in comparison with other products that serve the same purpose.”
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Solar energy has pros and cons that make it very easy to want to sway your decision to the side that you are currently reading about. The pros for solar energy include its abundance, renewability, sustainability, and how low maintenance it is. The cons make it seem a little more realistic being expensive, and requiring a lot of space (Maehlum, 2014). With all the green energy it is easy to say that we want to go green but the cost makes it seem unrealistic to switch with what we already have. The same sort of effects go with recycling. Recycling is good because it reduces the consumption of energy, decreases pollution, and conserves resources. On the opposite side it is very inefficient with the cost of how much it takes for somebody to recycle something, recycled products are always less durable, and changes have to be made on a large scale (Recycling Pros and Cons List, 2015). Overall, it is very evident to see that going green would be good in many aspects but it also would cost a lot in yet again many more
Solar energy has pros and cons that make it very easy to want to sway your decision to the side that you are currently reading about. The pros for solar energy include its abundance, renewability, sustainability, and how low maintenance it is. The cons make it seem a little more realistic being expensive, and requiring a lot of space (Maehlum, 2014). With all the green energy it is easy to say that we want to go green but the cost makes it seem unrealistic to switch with what we already have. The same sort of effects go with recycling. Recycling is good because it reduces the consumption of energy, decreases pollution, and conserves resources. On the opposite side it is very inefficient with the cost of how much it takes for somebody to recycle something, recycled products are always less durable, and changes have to be made on a large scale (Recycling Pros and Cons List, 2015). Overall, it is very evident to see that going green would be good in many aspects but it also would cost a lot in yet again many more