Saturday, June 4, 2011

How ordinary people can help the world


These are the main three things ordinary people can do do to help the environment;
SAVE ENERGY: Saving energy is one of the best things ordinary people can do to help the world. Saving energy includes saving electricity, saving water and even saving gas or fuel. Some electricity requires burning coal which creates smoke and creates global warming, if you use too much electricity that means that it creates a lot of smoke that harms the world. If you leave a room, turn of the lights, so that you don’t have to use electricity. Also something that consumes a lot of electricity is an air conditioning, television, blender, microwave, electric oven, washing machine, drier, heating system, refrigerator, freezers etc. If you are using an AC (air conditioning) don’t turn the temperature low like on 17, just turn like on 25, it saves a lot of energy, or if you leave your room, turn the TV off, don’t leave it on for the whole day, a refrigerator and freezer might be necessary, but if it has no food, turn it off.  Try use the least electricity you can, if you leave your house, turn off the fans, the lights, the air conditioning, anything that uses electricity and you wont need.

DON’T THROW GARBAGE ON THE FLOOR: Garbage is a big pollutant to the world, because it is mostly plastic that can not deteriate, and it takes up to 500 years to deteriate, but things like wood, or leaves, deteriate really fast and is even a healthy compost for the earth, while things like plastic, metal, glass, batteries, paint, oil and many more are toxic to the earth, and take hundreds of years to deteriate, and it meanwhile poisons  the earth, the plants and the water. That’s why it is important to throw the garbage in garbage cans, so that it can be taken away and recycled to be re used, and not be throwed away to be waste. it may be easy and even a habit to throw garbage when and where you want to. But do you ever think of the consequences, like what happens to the garbage. You may think, what can a little wrapper do? So you just throw it where you are over your shoulder, but actually one wrapper can really make a difference. If there is a pile of garbage somewhere in the street, you think that it’s ok to just throw a wrapper, but every piece of garbage came from somewhere, some one who thought that that little piece of garbage would do nothing, and the pile just gets bigger. So throw the garbage where it belongs, in the garbage can, because one wrapper does make a difference

USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Do you like traffic? Do you know why traffic happens? Traffic happens because of to many cars, all wanting to get somewhere. But the problem is that mostly every car has only one person in it, some don’t but most do. But what if instead of 10 cars with 10 people, there is only one bus with 10 people? it saves space, and instead of 10 machines creating pollution, there is only one machine making pollution, and it does the same job, the people get where they want to go. Although buses might not be very nice to ride, because it might be too crowded or might take along time before you reach your destination, but it is effective. If you care about the world you would make as least pollution as possible. Or it doesn’t have to be a bus, it can be a subway train, or if you still don’t like crowded places, you can ride in a car with your friend who is going to the same place. And yet there is still another way to get somewhere without creating any pollution at all. If your destination isn’t far away, why don’t you just ride a bicycle, or you can even walk, not only do you not create pollution, or waste fuel, but you also get healthy, so why don’t you try it? 

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