The State of the climate -- and what we might do about it.

Period 3

23 September 2013

The state of the climate -- and what we might do about it. 

     Will a hundred years from now be the worst of centuries or the best of centuries? Lord Nicholas gives an example using his experience twenty-five years ago while visiting Beijing. He went to teach there and as for transportation, he used a bicycle to get around. It was to go around. However, today all the cars and truck is making bicycling dangerous because the cracks on the roads. The air is much worse and at age sixty, people should not go outside or move too much. He says that we should see that China burns half the worlds coal each year and that is why a key reason of why it has green house gases. China has grown rapidly and lifted people out of poverty, but know that is unsustainable path of growth and development. In which they will build cities in different ways and cut down some coal.

            In general our population will grow, more energy will be use, and the pressure on land, water, and forest will increase later in the years. But if we are not careful on our actions we can create pollution, waist, and destruction toward our own world in which we need to survive, our only home. Green house gasses will grow and ruined the climate change. We will risk temperatures that we never experienced. It will change everywhere and people would move risking the environment we need to survive. Knowing this we will have to do a change a transformation. It is an opportunity that we can use or an opportunity we can lose.

            People hear what is happening, feel they should do something, but they don’t do anything. Something we have to do is invest our cities. Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle, something simple, in which anyone can do. Something we heard in our lives. Making good choices gives you good result, if your destination is about a mile, instead driving a car a walk wont hurt using the public bus will reduce the smoke that will go in the air. Buying a water bottle, after you finished drinking the water, reuse it by adding more water or recycle by putting in a recycling bin not in the trash.  Are we going to look our next two generations in the eye and tell them that we understood the issues that recognized the dangers and opportunities and will still fail to act? Surely not, lets make then next hundred years the best of centuries by acting on our opportunities to change and transform in a better lifestyle.