Causes Of Global Warming Background
How can we battle the causes of
global warming? As we move towards the future,
technology is developing rapidly to assist in solving our
problems. These problems range from simple issues, such as
improving the quality of paper products to the advanced such
as improving the quality of life and condition of our
planet. Global warming is one of the topics that many of our
politicians all decide to sit around and talk about, without
showing much progress, which is a cause of great frustration
for peoples all over the world.
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The causes of global warming are primarily coming from humans. These reasons include carbon dioxide emissions into the air from cars, airplanes, electrical plants, and more. Global warming is also occurring due to the rapid loss of the rain forests that play an integral part in keeping the earth cool.
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Too often the politicians involved are too caught up with
trying to prove their opponent wrong to actually improve the
situation. This causes further problems, and compounds the
problem. Each time the topic is revisited it causes heated
discussions from members of parties who drive large expensive
cars, which consume gallons of gas, and release large
quantities of smog into the air. No one wants to lead the way,
and why should they? Conservative politics pays their
bills.
As the future is expanded into new and brighter horizons, there
are developing ways of trying to help prevent the destruction
of the planet. These methods range from cleaner and gentler
chemicals, to even the ideals of "green" power. Car
manufacturers are even getting into the swing of helping
improve the planet by producing hybrid vehicles that are easier
on the environment, use less gas, oil and other toxic
chemicals, and have lower emissions rates. All that's left is a
major Western societal change, and a widespread recognition of
the problems we are facing to change this situation.
The government is doing a great job of helping encourage
manufacturers, by offering tax breaks and other incentives.
This is always wonderful to help reduce the emissions rates for
vehicles, and slowly the tax incentives are expanding to allow
other companies the same discounts and savings for switching to
cleaner more energy efficient methods. Is this a good thing?
Should the government really be encouraging this behavior? Many
say that yes, it should be encouraged and programs that
encourage the use of cleaner power, and less environmentally
hazardous chemicals should always be rewarded, especially since
the cost of such methods and chemicals tend to be more
expensive.
Normal taxpayers are not seeing the benefits of trying to go
"green" when looking at their own budgets. Many electrical
companies are starting to offer "green blocks" of power which
can be purchased, however these blocks are purchased in
addition to the normal household power consumption, and do not
allow discounts on the next months bill in exchange for the
purchase. Something seems a bit odd here, major manufacturers
are encouraged with tax breaks and incentives to switch to
cleaner methods, but millions of households are not.
It seems, a good step in the direction of correcting global
warming, would be to create a program to help reward the small
things that households could easily do. That would save
thousands, if not millions of watts of power each year. This
would reduce immensely the amount of power that is needed to be
produced, and allow the power companies to help clean up large
areas at a time, instead of just a few manufacturing areas
which have fallen into disuse.
While it is a wonderful idea to clean up the smog-ridden towns,
and reduce the energy uses, so that resources from the ground
are not burned continuously in the pursuit of energy. There are
smaller things that can be done on a very large scale that
would help reduce the amount of damage that is done to the
ozone layer each year, and would greatly slow the damage that
the human race is causing to our greatest asset, our planet.
It's not the burden of the government, nor is it the burden of
the people. We can all make the change, but it needs the
collective of humanity to make the difference our planet so
dearly needs.
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