Let's Go Green And Leave A Better World For Our Kids
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Written by: sportzhere
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Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 |
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Global warming and acid rain are but two of the destructive consequences we are presently witnessing as the result of pollution. If only we could exist without harming mankind's home, the beautiful green planet, Earth. How wonderful it would be if we could breathe pure air in our towns, uncontaminated by poisons and toxins caused by our way of living. The thing is, this is no longer attainable; we humans have made certain that with the pollution we've created we'll be breathing in airborne poisons, which can impair our habitat and ultimately our health.
All forms of life found in that enormous body of water, our oceans, which make up 70% of planet earth's surface, are being ravaged by pollutants such as oil and chemical spillage, which inevitably affects us as well. Countless fishing jobs that were centered on the healthy bounty of the sea have been eradicated. Towns have relied on fishing for hundreds of years, for both food and economic prospects, and now all of this is coming to an end for many. A significant instance of how we are destroying the ocean is with oil spills, a recent example of this is the Deepwater Horizon spill which left many people jobless and cost billions of dollars to deal with. The food chain and the whole of the ecosystem suffered significant damage, as a direct consequence of the deaths of large numbers of not only fish but also birds. All because of humans and their greed for oil, with almost no thought, except in hindsight, for Mother Earth and her many other children.
Billions upon billions are invested in oil exploration when the money could be spent investing in alternative green energy solutions or research into green energy. Present green energy alternatives, which do no damage to the environment, are capable of delivering a lot of our energy needs. Take solar panels by way of example, they will work great in sunny locations and they can produce electricity as well as heat up water. A further green energy source is wind turbines, which will turn energy contained in wind to electricity. The positive aspect of wind turbines, assuming that there's enough wind, is that they perform all day and all night. The quest for green energy alternatives is becoming increasingly important as we near the end of our oil reserves, not to mention the harm oil does to the environment. It is not unthinkable that, maybe the devastation of pollution and global warming could not just be stopped, but possibly reversed.
We will experience some benefits in the short term and future generations will benefit in the long term. Instead of being at the mercy of severe weather patterns and harsh living conditions, our children, and their children, could live healthily in a clean, beautiful, and bounteous environment. Beginning to live green, and looking after the environment, is the only way we can ensure this.
It will be worth all the money, time and massive effort required, if we can stop the constant march of the harm we are doing to our planet.
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