Solutions

Solutions of Global Warming

By Sabina

As humans we have created many machines that have helped us in many ways, but there have been many negative effects on the environment- global warming. A few solutions that you can personally use of this problem are:

1)      Your car: Instead of buying a car that is a fuel guzzler, buy a car that has the best fuel economy, it is environment friendly, cheap and it doesn’t use that much fuel with heaps of mileage; this will save your money and will help in slowing down global warming.

2)      Using an automatic thermostat Air Conditioner: A thermostat helps in maintaining the temperature of your house; so as soon as you go out of your house it will set your house a temperature you want, for example as soon as you leave the house the temperature should be around 85 F and when you are in the house the temperature would be around 80 F. This will reduce your emissions by 15% and save your money.

3)      Upgrade your refrigerator and air conditioner: After every few years more eco-friendly items have been released, but many of us still keep the old fridge and air conditioner because it saves us money from buying a new one. But in fact, as new technologies are developed they are cheaper as the item doesn’t require any fancy and expensive parts to build the item. Also older items give out more emissions compared to new ones. Adding to it is that these items save energy thus we save energy and money.

4)      Light bulbs: It might seem weird that lights bulbs make a difference in our energy consumption, but believe it or not it does. New LED lights use 15% of the electricity the pervious bulbs used. If everyone starts using these lights, then the amount of energy used for 10 houses could be used for 30, thus decreasing the production of electricity and leaving a very small carbon footprint.

5)      Meat consumption: How could meat consumption affect the environment? As our population increases the amount of meat consumed by the whole world increases and nowadays there is no limit of eating chicken, pork etc. But if we start decreasing your intake of such food, then many animals will not decompose at once and while decomposing the animal give out  carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas, leading to increase of global warming. As animals decompose they release carbon dioxide which is a greenhouse gas and if the consumption of meat increases more carbon dioxide will also increase because the more animals will decompose.

6)      Reuse, reduce and Recycle: This is taught to everyone when they are in primary school and no one forgets it, but that doesn’t mean that we use it. All of us might say that it is a good thing to practice but most of us do not practice it. So reduce the amount of electricity used, reuse newspapers and recycle anything possible.

7)      Making sure everyone is aware: If every one of us knows this we could apply these solutions to the daily world and help our Earth.

8)      Renewable Resources: Building dams and using the flow of current to make electricity is a renewable resource, which India is very popular for doing this. Other countries such as Australia use uranium to make electricity, which is a process that pollutes a lot compared to the process of gaining electricity from building dams. Using wind mills can also create more electricity and it doesn’t pollute the environment. Solar panels could be used to heat the water during the winter or you could also use solar power for lighting purposes.  

9)      Stop Deforestation: There was a study where it was shown that plants and trees decrease the amount emissions by using the greenhouse gases for making their food by the process known as photosynthesis. If we plant more trees it will help us create a better place, pollution free and plant plant more trees (afforestation).

10)   Electricity monitor: As they name suggests this monitor, monitors the amount of electricity used and it helps you be aware of the amount of energy you have used and how much you should use making you conscience of the amount you are meant to use.

Source: http://www.solarpanel.co.za/global-warming-solutions.htm