Soultions for Global Warming

Every day, more and more pollutants are emitted into the air, causing damage to the ozone layer. As you go to school, either on car or on a bus, many harmful gases are thrown out, and as you may think that you don’t make a difference, but you do make a difference. For example, 25% of the total carbon dioxide emissions of the United States are from cars and trucks. If people would ride bicycles, skate, walk, or even use skateboards as their main transportation, we could reduce the amount of gases emitted, and make the terrible situation better.

While I was reading and researching solutions, I found this really interesting article in the Time Magazine written by John Doer, in September of 2006, and this is a part of the article that really drew my attention, because I think it states the opinion of many people about global warming, also my opinion.

After dinner one recent night, family an friends were discussing their
views on global warming. With clarity and wisdom beyond her 15 years, my
daughter said, "Dad, I'm scared and angry. Your generation created this problem.
What are you going to do to fix it?"

As I am sure you all know, deforestation is also a big issue nowadays, obviously not as big as global warming. Did you know that deforestation and global warming have a connection between them? Well, if you don’t I’ll tell you. Trees take up the carbon dioxide that is floating around and they turn it into air we can all breathe, so, in a simpler way to say it, trees eliminate carbon dioxide, making the air a little bit more clean, about 15%, because we emit more than we eliminate, an that is what is a cause for global warming that we may stop.

Here in Cartagena, most houses have a rule that is pretty much this “Turn off the lights when the room is empty”. But, why is it important to do so? Well, excluding the fact that your electricity bill will come much higher than usual, you are also helping to stop global warming, maybe if only a bit. In case you didn’t know, every kilowatt of electricity produces about one and a half kg of carbon dioxide, and that is a big cause for global warming we can also stop at least.Also, here in Cartagena, we do a lot of carpooling to save energy and to emit fewer gases. Carpooling is when you give somebody a ride to another place in your same car, so you don’t use two cars, so you don’t emit as much gas.

Continuing my research I found a part of an article that I really like. The part I got from an article called “Common Sense on Climate Change: Practical Solutions to Global Warming.” What I find interesting about it is that it is all true. There are people who really don’t care about what is happening to their planet, or what will become of it. What is funny to me is how people (adults) can be such airheads and completely miss the point of what we kids are trying to tell them: STOP POLLUTING!! :(

The part of the article was the following:

Mark Twain might as well have been talking about global warming when he
famously remarked, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does
anything about it." For years we have heard so much about the causes of climate
change, that we’ve missed the fact that there are simple, practical solutions
that can slow this growing problem.
Next week I would like to learn more of the opinions that different people
have about global warming, because I think it is going to be very interesting to
learn about that.

References:
-Earth On fire
- Global Warming