Summary: This article disscusses issues surrounding current climate change and things that we can do to slow down this proccess in its entirety. The first thing that this article talks about is how natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, droughts, and volcanic eruptions are being found more and more all over the world everyday, and every year these events are responsible for many deaths and serious injuries and they devastate comunities and damage economies. Scientists believe that Global Climate Change has the power to affect the frequency of these events occuring and is therefore causing this worldwide catastrophy increase.
The more important thing that this article talks about; however, is what we can do to prevent this global climate change. Most of the ideas that this article suggests involve us turning to alternative energy resources. Most of our current enenergy comes from burning fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are not only non renewable but also lead to global warming and the increase of the planets sea level. If we keep using fossil fuels at the current rate at which we are today we are going to run out of these resources. These resources will come back at some point, but that would take millions of years. Instead this article stresses the importance of using renewable resources that will not run the sun and the wind and hydroelectricity. If we really wanted to do something good for our planet we should switch to using renewable resources.
Opinion/Reflection: Those of you who read the article or this summary may find yourselves extremely bored becaused you've seen this message a countless number of times before. The truth is, this article is one out millions of reports that repeatevly state the same message: "Switch to renewable energy." Its been said a billion times and the thing that angers me the most is that people just aren't paying any attention to it. I personnally think that global warming is the scariest phenomenon in existance and I am shocked that despite this threat people don't want to do anything. I find this whole fact of interpretation to be very confusing. Even though it seems like everyone is going and alot of places are switching to using some renewable resources, in the quickly approaching future our current efforts are not going to be enough and we are going to need to do alot more. The thing that I'm scared of is that we will be too lazy to put in this effort.
Questions:
1: Do you think that in our worlds current state, that we are doing enough to avoid problems in the future? Why?
2: Do you think that people are scared of global warming, or truely just too inconsiderate? Why?
3: Do you think that people are educated enough concerning this process? Why?
I think that climate change is a huge issue and poeple are incredibly stupid for not trying to do something about it. This problem could be fixed if renewable resources were used instead of fossil fuels. I agree with Dave completely about how people are not paying attention. Many scientists are perfectly educated to do something like this, and what I don't get is why they do not make the switch. This article taught me many effects of global warming tghat I did not already know about, and this scares me even more now that I know them. I hope that this is fixed before it becomes a threat to lives.
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No, I do not think that we are doing enough to avoid problems in the future. People continue to burn fossil fuels, understanding the risks and completing the process anyway. This is just ridiculous, because there are so many other ways that we could make energy.
Question #3
Yes, I belive that most people are educated about this, they just don't do anything or feel that it is not their responsiblity to do anything. This is so odd, because it affects lives directly.
I agree that one of the biggest messages we hear today about global climate change is that, to prevent it, we need to switch over to renewable resources like solar energy and utilize wind turbines. It's stupid that we can't dedicate our time to such a huge event that threatens lives. It just shows how lazy we are that since Americans aren't as affected as other nations, we won't do anything to help. Yes, we are trying to cut down on our carbon emissions, but that's all we're doing. Cutting them down. We aren't getting rid of them completely, and the only way to do that is to switch to renewable energy.
ReplyDeleteQuestion #3: Yes, we are educated about this subject, but people who aren't scientists or politicians or anyone who deals directly with this problem feel like they can't do anything to help out.
I agree with Dave that global warming in a huge problem and people aren't paying attention to all of these reports. We have heard it a million times and you'd think that maybe something would click in people's heads that this is a huge and serious problem. It's obvious that we need to start using renewable resources because global warming is a huge and serious problem. If we let this go and don't do anything about it, the earth will be in very bad shape very soon.
ReplyDeleteQuestion #2: I believe people are scared of global warming, it's just that nobody has the initiative do do anything about it. The people that do things to try to stop it just aren't a big enough majority for it to make too big of a deiference.
I completely agree with dave. It really scares me that we have so much research supporting the theory, or rather fact, that is global warming. I think that people really just don't see the big picture. Global warming, something that we can't even see with our eyes is killing the planet. It's just such a hard fact to get your mind wrapped around that I think that people just don't grasp just how huge global warming really is. I know I have a hard time with it.
ReplyDeleteIn response to question number 3, I don not think that people are educated enough about global warming. Like i said, it is such a hard concept to understand and fully grasp. I think a little bit or education on global warming would go a long way towards at least raising awareness. Once more people understand how serious globe; warming is, maybe there will be more of a push for clean energy sources.