The Industrial Revolution has seen many a great innovation. Machines and technology has grown at an almost alarming rate, creating jobs, improving peoples lives, and creating a much more comfortable standard of living. But while our lives have improved the demand for resources and the amount of pollution has as well. A rapid change needs to happen in the way we as humans interact with the planet. Without swift action, within our lifetime, or our children’s lifetime, the world as we know it, comfortable and bounty-full, could shift to a cruel and unforgiving waste land.
A few years back Global Warming was just a debatable issue, and today almost everyone agrees that it’s a reality. One of the effects we’ve witnessed today in our lifetime has been the rise in temperature, because of such rises in temperature, the Montana Glacier National Park has about 30% of it remaining glaciers from 1910*. And such trends in temperature growth have many scientist watching our polar ice caps closely. These areas have seen temperature rise greater than any other …show more content…
With growing technologies, alternative energy has begun to peak interest, and become a more readily available and cost efficient means of sustainability. An example of this would be the huge drop in cost of solar panels. In 1977 a solar panel went for $76.67 per watt compared to todays cost of $0.613 per watt. In many countries as well the cost of solar power compared to the diesel fired peaking is lower. The only problem being that storage is not as readily available. But its not all bad news, as humans have begun to see the change in the earth, actions have been takin to begin the change from the fossil to the new alternative energy sources. Examples of our hope could be seen in a 24.9% drop in coal generated electricity since 2007, while in the same time frame an increase in wind generated power of 309% and solar generated power of
A few years back Global Warming was just a debatable issue, and today almost everyone agrees that it’s a reality. One of the effects we’ve witnessed today in our lifetime has been the rise in temperature, because of such rises in temperature, the Montana Glacier National Park has about 30% of it remaining glaciers from 1910*. And such trends in temperature growth have many scientist watching our polar ice caps closely. These areas have seen temperature rise greater than any other …show more content…
With growing technologies, alternative energy has begun to peak interest, and become a more readily available and cost efficient means of sustainability. An example of this would be the huge drop in cost of solar panels. In 1977 a solar panel went for $76.67 per watt compared to todays cost of $0.613 per watt. In many countries as well the cost of solar power compared to the diesel fired peaking is lower. The only problem being that storage is not as readily available. But its not all bad news, as humans have begun to see the change in the earth, actions have been takin to begin the change from the fossil to the new alternative energy sources. Examples of our hope could be seen in a 24.9% drop in coal generated electricity since 2007, while in the same time frame an increase in wind generated power of 309% and solar generated power of