Posts Tagged ‘fossil fuels’

Wouldn’t it make more sense to call it "green," "clean," or "renewable" energy? Just what exactly is green energy an alternative to? Is it an alternative to global warming, dependency on fossil fuels, deforestation, depletion of the earth’s resources, extinction of several species, and acid rain? Is it an alternative to fighting wars over oil, oil lobbyists trying to run the show, and large corporations getting tax breaks and large subsidies? It doesn’t sound like an alternative to me; it sounds like a solution. What do you think?

Bottling water is a significant environmental problem. What is a solution for these companies? What can they do to solve this problem of wasting plastic and using fossil fuels to transport them?

And to those who say recycling can be more expensive, I say if the prices go up enough as they will inevitably do, then recycling will actualy become much cheaper when compared to starting from stratch.
My point is, nobody can deny the Earths resources will run out even if global warming is proved wrong.

Obviously one can argue we should not have to cut Carbon levels but think for a minute? Fossil fuels are generally rising in price because they are getting harder to find. Also the prices of some metals where getting rather high before the financial crises and I think the are beginning to pick up again. I’ve heard stories of buglers going to great lengths and taking the copper from the wires of the High Speed Rail and the lead from old church roofs. Plus if the price of petrol goes up enough people will attempt yo steal it from your car.

Plus many (if not all) plastics are made form oil and if we run out of oil then we cannot make new plastic. And I’m sure many of you know how much fun Lego bricks and such are for children, besides the fact that we can’t live without it because think how many things use plastics. The very keyboard I used to type this question or the speakers connected to my computer. Also think about the effects plastic has on the environment. We can cleary see how it damages ecosystems. Plastic isn’t technically bio degradable in most cases since it can take hundreds of years apparently simply because Mother Nature can’t cope with it. If we recycled it then it would save us from making more. If we put it in a landfill it goes to waste and we could make much better use of it by recycling.

It’s all very logical really. Even a society that doesn’t cut Carbon should be reusing and thus recycling. The benefits are undeniable.
Instead of constantly clamouring about Carbon I think the new buzz word should be recylce. If we can sell that properly Carbon emissions will be reduced anyway.

What burns more fossil fuels car pollution or running the usual amount of electricity in your home? What if everyone took one day out of every month to not use transportation? How would you feel about that I think it would really help? It might hurt business but the environment is way more important. And why do you think it is that cars are becoming bigger and bigger and even though the technology is available to cut down on emission even more no one is using it. What if the government set a law in place that no cars could be manufactured after January 2008 that do not exceed a mpg limit? And what if laws were put in effect to limit the amount of traveling one could do depending on that rate and what they do for a living.

I know those laws would expend certain freedoms but it would be for the better good. Don’t you think I am right? Or am I delusional in my way to help the environment?