Even a small effort can make a difference when it comes to climate change. Here are 5 common sense reasons why we should care about the environment.
Even a small effort can make a difference when it comes to climate change. Here are 5 common sense reasons why we should care about the environment.
1. Green technology can be more cost-effective…in time.
As oil, coal, etc. become increasingly scarce, and prices increase, our economy will need alternative sources of energy to avoid an economic depression. Imagine if gas prices quadrupled, and electricity costs doubled? Companies would have to raise prices on goods just to cover their overhead, and this would drastically decrease sales, and…well you see where that is going.
With more research, sources such as wind turbines, solar, and hydro are becoming less expensive. We’re even looking into harnessing those heat traps called parking lots to turn that heat into energy. We should encourage research and innovation for our economic future, as well as the next reasons as follows.
2. Landfills take up space, and are hard to clean.
Plastic can take hundreds of years to biodegrade, meaning that all those plastic bottles and bags in our landfills aren’t going away for a long time. As our population grows, we are running out of space for landfills, not to mention wasting the resources used to make plastic and other such materials. This is why we should recycle, at least plastic and metal. This will result in less space in landfills, and more efficient use of limited resources.
3. We all drink water.
Anytime a company or individual pollutes the ocean, lakes, rivers, etc. it affects us all.
4. We all breath air.
What gives anyone the right to pollute the air that we all breath? At least with water, you could filter it, distill it, etc. and you don’t necessarily need seafood to survive. But air? We would suffocate without it. The more we pollute the air, the more we hurt our overall health.
5. We can’t make more oil, and we can’t make more coal.
These are “fossil fuels” taken from the earth that cannot be replaced. In theory, once we use up all the oil…it’s gone. It won’t be quite that bad because oil prices will likely spike so high before that happens that we’d have to switch to other sources by then. With that said, do we want energy prices to suddenly spike, or would we rather start making the transition now while we can still do so comfortably?
Oil in particular has other uses, such as in making plastic, polyester, and much more. Why burn it up on gas guzzlers now when we already have more fuel efficient vehicles? I don’t care what you say…if you drive some big gas guzzler just for image, and have no practical use for it, you are selfish.
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